i^z - The Statural Hijlory 
26. Triticutn /pica ariftata glumis hirfutls^ the long Cone Wheac, 
which yet is the beft of any, to be Town in rank day Land, its 
iialh being reedy and not fubjed to lodging ; and by hedges 
fides, becaufe the Birds cannot cat it ; for which reafon alfo it 
muft be good in Inclofures, befides its being the leaft fubje^i: of a- 
ny Corn yet known, to the inconveniency of Mildews : This 
fort alfo yields extreamly well, but its Flower being courfc and 
not pleafing the Bakers, it is feldom fown but under the men- 
tioned circumftances, except fomtimes mixt amongft the other 
wheats. 
27. Triticum multiplex^ five (pica multiflici, double ear'd wheats 
fo named for that it has divers fmall ears iffuing out of the fides 
of the greater^ and is fown about Biffiter and JVeftonon the Green^ 
but it not proving agreeable to the foils thereabout, nor advan- 
tagious to the Umhandman^ it is almoft quite difufed, though 
I hear it fucceeds better about F ritwell znd Souldern. They fow 
alfo a Wheat about Wefton on the Green, which from the hanging 
of its ear they call Pendule wheat, but fufpe^ling that it differs 
in nothing from Cone^ it being ariftis munitum, ^ndglum^ hirfutk^ . 
I forbear as yet to pronounce it any other^ though lam told that 
the Pendule has a redder and more flender, and Cone a whiter and 
fuller ear ; and that Cone endures longer, and Pendule but a very 
Chort time here, it yielding for the firft year fomtimes twenty for 
one, and within two years after dwindling away, fo as not to be 
worth fowing ; which time expiring, they fupply themfelves 
again out of Berks-JInre, at Abington Mercat, whereof more (if 
I find it to be a different kind^ when I come into that County, 
28. All which, 'tis true, in Oxford- fhirt are fo commonly fown, 
that they cannot indeed in this refpeft be ftiled unufual: but be- 
caufe fcarce ever heard of in the South-eafI parts of England^ , 
I thought it convenient at leaft to hint them. And fo likewife 
our 
29. Hordeum dijiichum precox, or rathe ripe S^^r/)/, defer vedly 
fo called from its early ripening, it having been fomtimes fown 
and returned to the Barn again in two months time, and often in 
nine or ten weeks. This Barly, 'tis true, is no native of Oxford- 
Jlnre, only much fown here, it being all had either immediatly 
or mediatiy from Patney in Wiltfiire, whence by fome 'tis alfo 
called Patney Barky : Where the foil (as I am told) is of fo pe- 
culiar 
