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Herbs 
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CHAP. DXXXVII. 
Of PAN ICK; 
0 R, 
GUINNY CORN. 
I. ' | ' H E 'Names. It is called in Arabic k, Do- 
X chon : in Greek , ' Ewf/.©-, Elymos : in La- 
tine, Panicum : and in Englijh , P article, Guinny 
Corn, and Indian Corn. 
II. T he Kinds. There are feveral forts of this 
Plant, as, 1 . Panicum Inrlicum, Panicum America- 
man, Panicum Carolinianum , Mo.hn Diofcoridcs Lf 
Galeni ; (««.©- as Diodes has it : Mel frugum 
Plinij -, Pliny fays Panicum aPaniculis didumfuir ; 
Indian Panick or Guiny Corn. 2. Panicum Caru- 
leum Indiatm , Blew Indian Panick. 3. Panicum 
Indicuni Panicula Villofa , Indian Panick with a 
more hairy Spiked Head. 4. Panicum Germani- 
cum Panicula minor e , Panicum album vulgar e , 
Ordinary or Common Panick, German Panick. 
5. Panicum Sylvcjfre Gcrardi, Wild Panick. Of 
the Manured Panick growing with us in Europe, 
there is but one fort. But the Indian or Guinny 
Panick is manifold , coming from Eaft India , 
Guinny , j. Ethiopia , or Africa , and from America 
alfo : One for; has white Heads as big as ones 
Fill, thick and fhqrt, with round white Grains, 
having an hole or dent in every one of them. 
Another , lias a Head or Spike a Foot long, 
with a bowing top , as hairy as the third fort 
afore named. Another has a flender Spike a Foot 
and half long , larger at the lower part thereof, 
and fmaller at the upper part , much like to the 
hrlt Kind. Another has a bald fpiked Head, larger 
than both ones Fills, and 9 or 10 Inches or more 
long, whofe Stalk is a full Inch in Diameter, of a 
fine whitifh yellow color: befides all thefe, there 
are feveral other forts growing in their Native 
places, too many to be enumerated here; and 
which to mention would be to little other pur. 
pofe than to fill up Room. We (hall give you in 
this Chapter the Defcriptions only of the 
five Kinds we have firft Named, which take as 
follows. 
The Defcriptions. 
III. The firft , or Indian Panick , or Guinny 
Corn. Its Root is fibrous, conffting of many 
Threads or Strings : Its Stalk is very tall, as tall 
as the higheft Indian Maiz ; Its Leaves or Blades 
are like to thofe of Millet or Maiz, very long and 
broad , and of a confiderable thicknefs , with a Rib 
running all along the length to the middle. Its 
Ear is thick , clofe , and compatt , made Taper 
fafhion, broader or thicker at the lower end, and 
fmall at the top, a foot, or almoft a Foot and 
half in length. Its Grain is much like that 
in Se£t. 4. following, faving that many of them 
are contained together in one Hairy Husk,, which 
is faftned to a very Jhort foot Stalk. 
IV. The fecond, or Blew Indian Panick. It 
has a fibrous or ftringy Root like the former 
which fends forth Stalks, growing up to the 
height of a A lan, or more, with firong and great 
Joints, full of a white J'pungy Pith like to the 
former , or that of Maiz, which near the Ground 
are of a Jhining purp/ijh color : it fpreais it 
felf out into f undry Branches, with large and 
long Leaves on them, like to thofe of the firft 
which encompafs the Stalk at the bottom , having 
each a thick Rib running its whole length 
through the middle. From the Joints towards the 
top, as alfo at the tops , come forth fhort round 
Panick like Heads , clofer fet together, than in 
the next following , and of a blamjh Jhining pur- 
ple color, as the Stalk below, or rather much more 
Orient and frejh , full of hairy Husks, and fmall , 
long, blewifh , round Seed, or Grains in them, 
like unto Naked Oats. 
V. The third, or Indian Panick, with a more 
hairy fpiked Head. Its Root is a bujh of Fibres 
or Strings-, which fends up a thick, firong, joint- 
ed Stalk, four , five, or fix Feet high , an Inch 
and quarter or more in thicknefs, whofe Cavi- 
ty is filled with white fpungy Pith, at the 
Joints of the Stalks , and their Branches, come 
forth long , broad, thick Leaves like to the former , 
Panick Indian,- or 
Guinny Corn. 
with a thick Rib running through their middle 
jrom the one end to the other, which when dry is 
white like Straw. At the top of the Stalks, comes 
forth a Urge fpilied Head, almoft Corn fafhion, 
round thick below, and fmall at top, a Foot or 
more long fometmes fifteen or fixteen Inches in 
lengthy a little inclining or bending downward , by 
rea/on of its weight , for it is very full of Grain 
C ° 1 cn t .°& et ' 3er 0 the which is white or yellowifh 
and jajhwn almoft like to Gromel Seed ’ or not 
much unlike to that 0/ Millet: but the whole 
opike is much more hairy than “ either of the 
former. 
VI. The 
