¶ The Description.
1 THe common male Knot-grasse creepes along vpon the ground, with long slender weake branches full of knots or ioynts, whereof it tooke his name. The leaues grow vpon the weake branches, like those of small S. Iohns wort, but longer and narrower. The floures are mar∣uellous little, and grow out of the knots, of an herby colour; in their places come vp triangular seed. The root is long, slender, and full of strings.
2 The second differeth not from the former, but onely that it is altogether lesser, wherein e∣specially consisteth the difference. ‡ Because the difference is no otherwise, I hane thought good to omit the figure.
3 The Authors of the Aduersaria mention another larger Knot-grasse which growes in diuers places of the coast of the Mediterranean sea, hauing longer and larger branches and leaues, and those of a white shining colour. The seeds grow at the ioynts in chaffie white huskes; and the whole plant is of a salt and astringent taste. They call it Polygonum marinum maximum. ‡