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thinke good to name it in Latine, ^Amyleum frumcntum : in Englifti it may be called Amelcom 

 after the German word ; and may Jikewife be called Starch come. Tragus and Fucbjiu* took i Ct0 

 be Triticnm trimefi re ,or three moneths wheat : but it may rather be referred to the Farra ; fo r q/«. 

 meUa fpcaketh of a graine called Far Halicaftrum^wVich is fowne in the Spring, and for thatcaufe 

 it is named Trimejirc,ox three moneths Far. If any be defirous to iearne the making of ftarch U 

 them read Dodon&us Iaft edition.where they (hall be fully taught ; my Celfe not willing to fn^ 



time about fo vain a thing,and not pertinent to the ftory . It is vfed alfo to feed cattell and 

 and is in nature fomewbat like to Wheat or Barley. 



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Irley hath anhclme or ftraw which is (hotter and more brittle than that of Wheat, and hath 

 more joints : the leaues are broader and rougher • theeare is armed with long rough & prick- 

 ly beards or ailes,and fet about w ith fundry ranks,fomtimes two,otherwhiles three, foure, or 

 fix at the moll according to Tbeopbraftm,bvit eight according to Tragus, The grain is included in 

 a long chaffie huske,the roots be flender,andgrow thick together. Barley,as Pliny writeth,is of all 



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)fit to other,and hauing his long awne at his cnd,is couered with an huske (licking clofc 



This which commonly hath foure rowes of come in the eare, and fometimes more, as W<- c 

 irmerlv deliucred, is notfovfuallv fowne with vs : the pare is commonlv fhorter than * e 



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