GRAMINE^E. 



MILLET. 



(Common millet.) 



JILLET is one of the common grains of Palestine, and has 

 been cultivated there from the earliest times. There 

 are two sorts, the white and the yellow, both belonging 

 to the Holy Land. Other and perhaps better varieties 

 exist, such as the condigeriim, with a spiked panicle, 

 and the effuxinn, with scattered panicle. But these are found 

 in Germany, France, and England. The Guinea corn, (liolcus 

 sorghum,) which some have supposed to be alluded to under 

 the Hebrew word translated &quot;millet,&quot; is peculiar to Africa and 

 not to Palestine, which is not the case with the millet, and 

 therefore the latter is most likely the plant spoken of in Scrip 

 ture. The reference to it occurs only in Ezek. iv. 9, where it 

 is enumerated as one of the components of that bread which 

 was a type of the nature of the prophecy. 



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