1248 Salmon'^ 



Ub. 1. 



Tha/ij i Our Common Cow- Wheat. 2. < 

 Me/ampyrum Cdruleum GerarJi, Party colored, or 



XIII. The firft, or our Common Cow- 



has a Root compofed of fmainbreads, which fendi 



the bottom, half a Jard high or more, very weak 



topsoj thi 



hollow, gaping open at the end, almlfi like thofe 

 of a Dead Nettle, and ftand all looking one Jay, 



voarL, 'g^ow rmnd^Cup" or\lffds'''"omfnln] ^"ti!^^,f/!/'Sf 

 ircv^ntfh Seed, m much unitke to Wheat. "^ | S« iS^ S, 



alf'^and ZZ/nelfdentTd^il^rls, 'tht'/Thl 

 Spikes or Tufts of Flozxers, are in fame of a 

 reddijh or blujli color before they fpreai open, 



l'ui%''"hme'lth'Jr ie'''are°^Et ^"'^''-^ "^^'^'^ 

 plijh\leZ' " "' "^^ "" '"'' ^ '^^ ^"'" 

 XV. The Places. They grow among Bufhes, 

 Brakes and the like, upon Barren Heaths, as at 

 Hampftead near London ; alfo in Fertil Paftures- 

 Buftiy Copfes, and low Woods, and fuch like pla- 

 ces in many parts of this Land. But the firft of 

 among the Jumper Bufhes and Bilberry Bujhes, in 

 all parts of the faid Heath, and in every part of 

 England he found it where he Travelled. 

 ■ ^^^' '^c'J'"'": y^^y ^^°^^f ^^o"' *e be- 

 ginning of May, thro' June and July, and their 

 Seed ripens in July and Augufi. 



XVII. The Qualities. They, viz. the Grains 



XVIII. Authors have 



ihe Virtues. 



little or 



t the Seed being taken in 

 adandjBrain, asDarnelviiW, troubling 

 lufing a kind of Drunkennefs, V -'- 



AdrVi- 

 troublin, 



As Low- Wheats generally m all \ 

 ley grow among Corn thrive ; fo if 

 Veeded out, but fuffer'd to grow til 

 Corn is Reaped, their Seed mixes with the V 

 Thrafhing, whereby when Ground, the M 

 )wner or darker colored ; and fo the 1 

 lich is made thereof, will be blacker than c 



THE Names. It is called by the Arabians 

 Henta, and Hencha-, in Greek ni/f/f .• alffl) 



(quod tritum ex Spicis fit, ut dicit Varro:) alfo 

 Siligo, which is the Name of the fineft and molt 

 " eatiandinEnglifliri/i^-j/. 



e Kinds. Wheat if we refpefl the Ear 

 rither Naked and not Bearded ; or Beard- 



j reipea the color chiefly, 

 i.Triticumariflirubri, vel 



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