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OfTSuckr'tohea 



Irigopjron. 



Buckwheat, or Bucke. 



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thereof 



/ cx-vyneat may very well De placed among 

 the kinds of graine or corne, for that often- 

 times in time of neceffitie bread is made 



raine. It hath a 



round fat ftalkc fomewhat crefted, fmooth and 

 reddi(h,which is diuided in many armes or bran- 

 ches,whereupbn do grow fmooth and foft leaues; 

 in fliape like thofeof luieoroneoftheBinde- 

 weeds,not muchvnlike BafiI,whereof Tderm- 

 montmus called itOcymumCereale.-the floures be 



fmall,white, and cluftred together in one or moe 

 tufts or vmbels, (lightly daftitouer here & there- 

 with a flourish of light Carnation colour. The 

 feeds are of a darkeblackifh colour, triangle, or 

 three fquare like the feedofblacke Bindeweed. 

 The root is fmall and threddy. 



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It profpereth very wel in any ground , be it n*i 

 uer fo dry or barren,where it is commonly fowefs 

 to ferue as it were in ftead of a dunging.lt quick. 

 Iy commeth vp, and is very (oone ripe : it is very 

 common in and about the Namptwich in Chel 



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cattcll,pullen,and fuch like, as to thevfcafore- 

 iaid. It groweth likewife in Lancafbire, and in 

 iome parts of our South country, about London' 

 in Mtddlefex.as alfo in Kent and EiTex. 



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ningSfut ^ ° f SraiDe iS f ° Wen i0 A P ri11 «* thc bc S in ™S of May,and is ripe in the begin 



Buck-wheat is called nfth* w u a Li ^ The Thames. 



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 ^^t^J^C^^ 1 '^^ Fa ? ^-^ Beech Whe7t7irS 



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or Ores ; yet more than either Mill or 



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