Pambotanologia. Sive Enchiridion botanicum. Or A compleat herball: containing the summe of what hath hitherto been published either by ancient or moderne authors both Galenicall and chymicall, touching trees, shrubs, plants, fruits, flowers, &c. In an alphabeticall order: wherein all that are not in the physick garden in Oxford are noted with asterisks. Shewing their place, time, names, kindes, temperature, vertues, use, dose, danger and antidotes. Together with an [brace] introduction to herbarisme, &c. appendix of exoticks. Universall index of plants: shewing what grow wild in England. / By Robert Lovell St. C.C. Ox.

Mat-weed. Spartum herba.*

• P. In Spaine and the Low Countries.
• T. It beares its heads in summer.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Theoph. Spartum Latinorum. Juncus Hisp. & Ibericus.

Mat-weed. Ger. J. K. as Plinies, the hea∣ded, English, small English, and heath, with the feather grasse. T. are uselesse in physick, and hurtfull to cattell. They serve to make mats with, and frailes, &c. The feather grasse serveth for a feather, and is worne by sundry ladies and gentle women. Park. K. as the Spanish rush, softer Spanish rush, and small French Mat-w. T.V. are as uselesse as the first. The soft serve to stuff beds with. Bauh. The rest serve to make shoes with, as also ropes &c.