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Zea, ftuc Spelu 



Spelt Cornc. 



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the Bride and Bride-groomc did care of that Far 

 vv hich the Grecians call Zea.Thc fame thing i^ffcle- 

 />/W« affirmeth in Galert,in his ninth book according 

 to the places atfefted, writing thus • F arris, quodzea 

 a^elUnt^ : that is to fay^^which is called Zea, & c . 

 * nd this Far is alio named of the Latines,/^,»-,of- 



do r eum and Semen adorenm. 



ofcertdes 



Temp 



than Barley. GVwwritethinhis books of the Fa- 

 culties of fimple Medicines, Spelt is in all his tem- 

 perature in a meane bctweenc wheat and barley, and 

 may in vertue be referred to the k hides of Barly and 

 Wheat.bcins indifferent ro rhrm horh. 





^f TbcVertucs. 



Thcflouteormealcof Spelt coroc boiled inwa- A 

 ter with the poudcr of Saunders, and a little Oile of 

 RofesandLilIies,vntotheformcofa pulrefle, and 

 applied hot,takes away the fwellrngof the legs got- 

 ten by cold and long (landing. 

 $ Spelt (faith Turner) is common about Wei/en- B 



burgh in high Almaine, eight Dutch miles on this 

 fide Strausburgh,and there all men vfc it for wheat, 

 for there groweth no wheat at all : yet I neuer law • 

 fairer & pleafanter bread in any place in all my life 

 than I hauc eaten there,made only of this Spelt The 

 corn is much lefTe than Wheat, and fomewhat fnor- 

 terthan Rie,but nothing foblacke. t 



Triticum AmjUum. 



Starch Corne. 



hap, 4 p. Of Starch* Come. 





^ The Defer ipti tut 

 :inde of Spelt a or 2 



fi- 



or Starch-corne ; and it is a kinde of Graine 

 iownetorhatend, orathree-moncthsgrainc and 

 is very like vnto wheat in ftalke and feed ; but the 

 eare thereof is fet round about and made vp with 



luaucror i5any,and tne Iced isclofe* 

 fie husks^nd is fowne in the Spring. 



«ff The Place, 



chaf- 



Amilcorne 



the which 



manie, Polonia, Denmarke, and other thofeEa- 

 fterne regions as well to feed their cattel and pul- 



Jenwithjasalfotomakeftarchfor' 1 -- * ' ' 

 pole it very fitly ferueth. ' 



T . r 11 The Time. ' 



It u fowne in Autumne or the fall of the Ieafe ! 

 and oftentimes in the Spring , and for that caufe 

 hath been cal ed Trimeftrtjn three months gun 

 it bnngcth his feed to ripenelTe in the begZg 

 of " Auguft, and is fown iS the Low-CounE if 



it 



Becaufe the Germanes haue great vfe of it to 



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3melcojnc 



tninke 





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