EYE. 



/Secale Uereate, or 

 GRAMINACEJE. Triticum Spdta. 



JIERE is some disagreement as to which of the varieties 

 given above is the &quot;rye&quot; of Scripture. It is supposed 

 that the &quot;rye&quot; of Isaiah xxviii. 25 is that known by us 

 as rye, because the same kind is found both at the foot 

 of Mount Caucasus and in Syria, especially as most 

 of the plants and trees mentioned by this prophet are found in 

 the North of Palestine. Herodotus speaks of a kind of bread, 

 called cyllcstis, made from spelt, a kind of bearded wheat 

 much cultivated in Egypt in ancient times. This was pro 

 bably the &quot;rye&quot; of Exodus ix. 32, which ripened about the time 

 of the wheat, as we find in that passage that the wheat and 

 rye were not injured in the hailstorm, for they were grown up. 

 The two places above referred to are the only ones in which 

 the word occurs in the Scriptures. 



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(cf l^ r ^ 3) 



