Of Kneed grasse.
The description.
KNeed grasse hath straight and vpright strawie stalks, with ioints like to the strawe of corne, and beareth small grassie leaues or blades, spiked at the top like vnto Lisimachia, flore Ceruleo, or loue strife (as we terme it,) of a darke browne colour. His roote is hairie or threddie. 2 Water kneed grasse hath many long and slender stemmes, iointed with many knobbie and gowtie knees, like vnto reede set with brode flaggie leaues somewhat sharpe pointed: bearing at the top a tuft or pannicle, diuided into sundrie small branches of a duskish colour. His roote is threddie like the other. 1 Gramen geniculatum. Kneed grasse. <column-break/> 2 Gramen geniculatum aquaticum. Water Kneed grasse.
The place.
These grasses do grow in fertill moist medowes: not differing in time from others.
The names.
It is so called, bicause it hath ioints like as it were knees, and therefore termed Geniculatum, kneed.
The vertues.
We haue nothing deliuered vs by the ancients of their nature and properties.
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