Of Hedgehog grasse.
The description (la descripción).
Hedgehog grasse hath broade, long and stiffie flaggie leaues, with diuers stalks proceeding from a thicke spreading roote. And at the top of euerie stalke groweth certaine round and pricking knobs, fashioned like an Hedgehog. 2 The second, which is hairie grasse, is as rough and hairie as a goate. His rootes do spread and creepe vnder the mud and mire as Cyperus doth: and at the top of the stalks are certaine pricking knobs or burres. | 1 Gramen palustre Echinatum. | 2 Gramen exile Hirsutum. | | :--- | :--- | | Hedgehog grasse. | Hairie grasse. |
The place (el lugar).
They grow in watery ditches, as you may see in going from Paris garden bridge to Saint Georges fields, and such like places: where also are some of the grasses which we haue already described, to be seene.
The names (los nombres).
The first is called Hedgehog grasse, and in Latine Gramen Echinatum, by reason of those prickles which are like vnto a Hedgehog. The second Hairie grasse, Gramen exile Hirsutum Cyperoides, bicause it is small & little, and rough or hairie like a goate: and Cyperoides, bicause his rootes do spread and creepe like the Cyperus.
The vertues (las virtudes).
Their natures and vertues are frutelesse as many of the others are, and therefore nothing is deliuered vs of them by our writers.
Texto en la ortografía original de Gerard, en inglés de 1597 (la s larga se imprime como s), transcrito por la Source Library (CC BY-SA 4.0). Un capítulo puede continuar en páginas aún no transcritas. Gerard escribía dentro de la medicina galénica; nada de esto es un consejo.