The Description.

            1. Water-Grass, or as we term it, Water Bur-Grass, hath a few slender and long jointed leaves: among which riseth up a stalk of two foot high, bearing on his small and tender branches, certain little rough knobs, or brownish sharp pointed seeds made up into cornered heads; his root is small and thready.

            The figure of this plant is not well expressed, for it should have had the leaves made narrower, and joints expressed in them, like as you may see in the Gramen juncum sylvaticum, which is the ninth in the sixteenth chapter; for that and this are so like, that I know no other difference between them, but that this hath leaves longer and narrower than that, and the heads smaller and whiter. There is a reasonable good figure of this in the Historia Lugd. p. 1001, under the name of Arundo minima.

            2. Spiked Water-Grass hath long narrow leaves: the stalk is small, single, and naked, without leaves or blades, bearing alongst the same toward the top an ear or spike made of certain small buttons, resembling the buttony flowers of Sea Wormwood. His root is thick & tough, full of fibres or threads.

The Place and Time.

            They differ not from the former kinds of Grass in place and time: and their names are manifest.

The Nature and Virtues.

            Their nature and virtues are referred unto Dog's Grass, whereof we will speak hereafter.