Of vpright Dogs graffe.

| | | |---|---| | 1 Gramen Caninum supinum. | 2 Gramen Striatum. | | Vpright Dogs graffe. | Ladie Lace graffe. |

The description.

1 Vpright Dogs graffe or Quich graffe, by reason of his long spreading iointed rootes, is like vnto the former, and hath at euery knot in the roote sundry strings of hairie substance, shooting into the ground at euery ioint as it spreadeth, thrusting or bearing vpright his bent or stalke, with a spokie pannicle, somewhat thicker and greater than the common Couch graffe. By which notes of difference, it may be easily discerned from the other kindes of Dogs graffe. 2 Ladies Laces hath leaues like vnto Millet in fashion, rough and sharpe pointed like the Reede Vallatoria, with many white vaines or ribs, and siluer strakes running along through the middest of the leaues, fashioning the same like to laces of white and greene silke, very beautifull and faire to behold; behold; it groweth to the height of wilde Pannicke. The roote is small and hairie, and white of colour like the Medow grasse, hauing a faire bush or crest at the top, like the common Reede.

The place.

1 Vpright Dogs grasse groweth in well dunged grounds and fertill fields. 2 Ladies Laces groweth naturally in the wooddy and hilly places of Sauoy, and answereth common grasse in his time of feeding. It is kept and maintained in our English gardens, rather for pleasure than for vertue as yet knowen.

The names.

L'Obelius calleth it sulcatum and Gramen striatum, or Gramen pictum: in English the Furrowed grasse, the White Chameleon grasse, or straked grasse: and vsually of our English women it is called Ladies Laces, or Painted grasse. In French Aiguillettes d'armes.

The vertues.

The vertues are referred to the Dogs grasses.