i6 BARLEY. 



BARLEY. 



THERE ARE FOUR kinds of barley^ 

 all of them diftind SPECIES, cultivated niore 

 or lefs in this Diflridlr. 



Common barley, bordeum zeocriton, ' 



long- eared barley. 

 Battledoor barley, hordeum diftichon, 



fprat barley. 

 Big - - 3 bordeum -, four- 



rowed barleyj Or fpring barley. 

 --- -bordeum hexaftichon, ^fix- 



rowed barley, or winter barley. 



The firft and the third are the forts which 

 are now principally cultivated. The firfl, in 

 the Vale; the third, in the Morelands, or 

 in the Vale, when the feafon of fowing is 

 driven very late. Formerly, IC BATTLEDOOR 

 BARLEY" was a common crop ; but atprefent 

 it is almoft out of cultivation, The WINTER 



BARLEY 



