PLATE VII 
Of Turkie Corne, or Indian wheat. 
The kindes. 
Urkith tobcat is of one,and of manp forts. A rian fhall mot find in this coun: 
Ts (Wi fathion and. crowing) moze than one kind, butincolour the fede 07 
qrayne doth much differ : fo2 one beareth a brotune graye o2 come, the other 
ared,the third a pellow, and the fourth a iwhtte come o2 grape. De which colour 
votl Itkewife remapne both in the eares and floures. 
The defcription. 
T His Come is antarucllous range plant,nothing refembling anv other kind of 
arapne : for if baingety forth bts fade cleane contearie from the place whereas 
the Floures grew, tobhich is againt the nature and kinds of all other plants, which 
brine forth theirfrutt there, whereas they hauc borne their Floure. his Come 
beareth a high beluie o2 Femme, arid berplong, round, thicke, firme, and below to- 
{nards the roote of a beetwnith colour, twith fundzte knots and ioprits , trom the 
which Dependeth lovig,and larae leaues, like the leaues of Spire oz Polerwve : at 
the highett ef the ffalkes, groto tdle and barren eares , which bring forth na-hing 
but the floures 02 bloffomes, which are fometimes bjowne, fomvtinics red, fome- 
times yellow, and fometimes white, agreable with the colour of the frutt, which 
comet forth afterward. he fruttfull cares 80 grow, bpon the fides cf the ems 
amongtt the leaues, the tohich eares be great and thicke , and coucred with manp 
leanes, fo that one cannot (ee the fapd earcs, bppon the bppermoft partof the fapd 
eares there qrolwmanp long hayate thaedes, which ifue forth at the cnds 02 popnts 
of the leaucs, courring the care, aud doe thew themfelucs about the time that the 
fruit 02 care Wareth ripe. Dhe grapne 03 Cede which groweth in the cares, is 
about the quantitte o2 bignefle of a peale , of colour in the out-fide, fometiines 
Lootone, fometimes redre, and fometimes twhite, and tn the ui-fide tt ts iit colour- 
{white and in talle (weet, growing oderlp about the cares , Wnine o7 ten ranges 
0} rowers. 
The place. 
This grapne grotweth in Lurkie, alec itis bled in the time cf dearth. 
The time 
Atis Cotwne in April, and ripein Guguff. 
The names. 
Chey doe notw call this grapne, Framentum T urcicum, and Frumentum Afiati- 
cum: in French, Ble de Turquie, 02 Ble Sarazin: inbigh Dutch, Wurkte iow: 
in bafe Almaigne, Worcklehcoren + in Cngliih , Larkilty Cone, 02 Jndian- 
wheat. 
The nature. and vertues. 
There is as pet no certapne erperience of the naturall bertues of thi« come. 
Che bead that is made thereofis eve andhard, gauing beryp {mali fatneffe 02 
topfture, wherefore men may cafilp iudge, that it nourifheth but little, and ts euill 
of digeftion, nothing poimpstanle to the bread made of Theat, as fome haue falfly 
affirmed. 
