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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



Secale, 



Rie; 



^r The Time. 



It is for the moft part fovvne in Autunine,and 

 fometimes in the Spring , which proueth to be a 

 grain more fubied to putrifa&ion than that was 

 fovvne in the fall of the Jeafe^by reafon the Win- 

 ter doth ouertake it before it can attain to his f u ]j 

 raaturitie and ripenefle. 



^f TheNatncs. 



Rie is called in high-Dutch,t&Otkttl : in l ^ 



Dutch,U0JJ8*JinSpanifli,C»^OT: in Italians*. 



gala : in French, Seigle> which foundeth aftenhe 



old Latine name which in tliny is Secale and j#. 



r ago jib .iS • cap. 16. 



%] The Temperature. 



Rie as a medicine is hotter than wheat,& niore 

 forcible in heating.>wafting,and confumingaway 

 that whereto it is applied .1 1 is of a more clammy 

 and obftru ding nature than wheat, and harder to 

 digeft • yet to ruftfek bodies that can well divtPt 

 it, it yee Ids good nourifhoient. 



^ 



^[ The Vert net. 



Bread.or the leauen of Rie,as the Belgian phy- 

 fitians affirme vpon their pra&ife, doth more for- 

 cibly digeftjdrawjripenjand breakeall apoftumes 

 botches^and biles,than the leauen of wheat. 



Rie meale bound vnto the head in a linnen 





thereof. 



ffwag 



« 





h a p, 48. Of Spelt Come 



^J The Defripion. 



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Wheat in ftalks 



1 y • "«* JK:> «" 1U carc • JC growctn vp wirn a multitude or itauces , which <w 



kneed and iointed higher than thofe of BarJy : it bringeth forth a disordered eare for the moll 

 part without beards. The cornes be wrapped in certain dry husks, from which they cannot 

 eafily be purged,and are ioyned together by couples in two chaffie husks,out of which when they 



be taken thev are like vnto whrar mrtv>c •iffi^t-lt iUXm-ir..**/-.^.- ^ \A7U„~+u~rU ,. r u orn nC\t is i 



kinde 



many roots as Wheat hath 



% The Place 



Itgroweth in fat and fertile moift ground. 



^J 7 he Time. 



It is altered and changed into wheat it felfe,as degenerating from bad to better, contrary to 

 other that do alter or change ; efpecially (as Theophrajlus faith) if it be cienfcd,and fo fownejtf 

 not forthwith,but in the third yeare. 



a;. 



% 



haue called it Zeia and Ze a : the Latinesjpelta .• in the German tongue, ^PP^' 

 d ^>infeCl : in low- D utcb, &pt\U X in French, BJp 



MiIIanois,^4 .- in Englifh,SpeIt Corne, Diofcoridcs m. 



\ple, or fingle : another,© icoccos .which 



forth t*o 



Cornes ioyned together in a couple of huskes, as before inthedefcriptionis mentioned. *"» 

 *™ u n '^- u Viofcoridcs calls Dicoccos t i% the fame which Theoph. and Galen do name Zea.fte w 



The old Romans(faithhe)didcaIl 



iy[ius Halt caw aft 



t! 



