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

¶ The Description.

† 1 THe common or best knowne Dogs-grasse, or Couch-grasse hath long leaues of a whitish greene colour: the stalke is a cubit and a halfe high, with ioynts or knees like wheaten straw, but these ioynts are couered with a little short down or wool∣linesse. The plume or tuft is like the reed, but smaller and more chaffie, and of a grayish colour: it creepeth in the ground hither and thither with long white roots, ioynted at certaine distances, hauing a pleasant sweet taste, and are platted or wrapped one within another very intricately, inso∣much as where it hapneth in gardens amongst pot-herbes, great labour must be taken before it can be destroyed, each piece being apt to grow, and euery way to dilate it selfe.

† 2 Knotty Dogs grasse is like vnto the former in stalke and leafe, but that they are of a dee∣per colour; also the spike or eare is greener, and about some two handfulls long, much in shape resembling an Oate, yet far smaller, and is much more dispersed than the figure 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to you. The roots of this are somewhat knotty and tuberous, but that is chiefely about the Spring of the yeare, for afterwards they become lesse and lesse vntill the end of Summer. And these bulbes do grow confusedly together, not retaining auy certaine shape or number.