Of Camels haie.

| | | |---|---| | 1 Schoenanthum.Camels Hay. | 2 Schoenanthum adulterinum.Bastard Camels Hay. | | | | | :--- | :--- | | 1 Sparganium.Burre Reede. | 2 Sparganium latifolium.Great Water Burre. |

The place (el lugar).

Both these kindes are very common throughout England, and do growe in moist medowes, and neere vnto water courses. They plentifully grow in the fennie grounds of Lincolnshire, and such like places, in the ditches about Saint George his fields, and in the ditch right against the place of execution, at the end of Southwarke neere London, called Saint Thomas Waterings.

The time (la época).

They bring foorth their burrie bullets, or seedie knots in August.

The names (los nombres).

These plants of some are called Sparganium. Theophrastus in his fourth booke and eighteenth chapter calleth them Butomus: of some Platanaria. Master Lyte hath called them Reede Mace, which name is not very proper in mine opinion: I rather call them Burre Reede. In the Arabian toong they are called Sa sarhe Bamon: in Italian Sparganio: of Dodoneus Carex.

The temperature (el temperamento).

They are cold and drie of complexion.

The vertues (las virtudes).

Some write, that the knops or rough burres of these plants boiled in wine, are good against the bitings of venemous beasts, if either they be drunke, or the wound washed therewith.