Description.
The greater Gromel groweth up with slen∣der hard and hairy Stalks trailing and taking Root in the ground as it lieth thereon, and parted into many other smaller Branches with hairy dark green Leavs thereon. At the Joynts with the Leavs come forth very smal blew Flowers, and after them hard stony roundish Seed. The Root is long and woody abiding the Winter and shooting forth fresh Stalks in the Spring.
The smal wild Gromel sendeth forth divers upright hard branched Stalks two or three foot high, full of Joynts, at eve∣ry of which groweth smal, long, hard, and rough Leavs, like the former but lesser, among which Leavs come forth small white Flowers, and after them grayish round Seed like the former. The Root is not very long, but with many Strings thereat.
The Garden Gromel hath divers upright slender woody hairy Stalks brown and crested, very little branched, with Leavs like the for∣mer, and white Flowers, after which in rough brown Husks is contained a white hard round Seed shining like Pearls, & greater than either of the former: The Root is like the first descri∣bed, with divers Branches and Strings thereat, which continueth (as the first doth) all Win∣ter.