The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London

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Title: The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London
Author: Gerard, John, 1545-1612.
Publication: London :: Printed by Adam Islip Ioice Norton and Richard Whitakers,; anno 1633.
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Subject terms: Botany -- Pre-Linnean works -- Early works to 1800.; Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.; Gardens -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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1 KNeed-grasse hath straight and vpright strawie stalkes, with ioynts like to the straw of corne, and beareth small grassie leaues or blades spiked at the top like vnto Pannick, with a rough eare of a darke 〈◊〉〈◊〉 colour. His roots are hairy and threddy, and the ioynts of the straw are very large and conspicuous.

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1 Gramen geniculatum. Kneed-grasse.

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2 Gramen geniculatum aquaticum. Water Kneed-grasse.

2 Water Kneed-grasse hath many long and slender stemmes, ioynted with many knobby and gouty knees like vnto Reed, set with broad flaggy leaues somewhat sharpe pointed; bearing at the top a tuft or pannicle diuided into sundry small branches, of a duskish colour. His root is thred∣die like the other.