1248 Salmon ’ j Herbal. Lib. 1 . 
belij ■, Satureia lutea Dalechampij ■, Milium Sylva - 
tic urn Taber memont am -, Melampyrurn Baubini if 
Thalij -, Our Common Cow-Wheat. 2 . Cr at aogo- 
num Blore vario -, Melampyrurn Camerarij •, Triti- 
cum Vaccinum Dodonai , Lugduncnfis & Tragi -, 
Melampyrurn Caruleum Gerardi , Party colored, or 
Blew Cow* Wheat. 
77;e D efcriptions. 
XIII. The firft, or our Common Cow-Wheat, 
has a Root compofed of /mail Threads, which fends 
■up an Hairy Jquare Stalk , branched almofi from 
the bottom , half a Tard high or more, very weak 
and /lender , and fuflained by the Bufhes among 
which it grows, having two long and narrow Leaves 
fet at each Joint , broadeft next to the Stalk, a 
little dented fomctimes about the edges, and pretty 
fharp pointed at the end, fomewhat rough alfo on 
the under fide, if it be drawn downwards. The 
Wheat Cow. 
tops of the Stalks and Branches are fet with Tufts 
of Leaves and Blowers together, which being grown, 
are feparated, two blowers only flan ding at a Joint, 
with the like Leaves fet with them, but fhorter 
and fmaller. The Blowers are long , round and 
hollow, gaping open at the end, almof like thofe 
of a Dead Nettle, and fand all looking one way, 
of a pale yellow color and white together, but 
grow yellower in time •, yet in fome of a blewifh 
or purplifh color , either deeper or paler, each 
ft an ding in a fmall green Husk , wherein after- 
wards, grow round Cups or Veffels, containing 
brownifh Seed, net much unlike to Wheat- 
XIV. The fecond, or Party-colored, or Blew 
Cow- Wheat. This grows like the former , but the 
Stalk is more reddijh , and fo ard\ the Leaves 
alfo, and more finely dented upwards , where the 
Spikes or Tufts of Blowers, are in fome of a 
reddijh or blufb color before they fpread open, 
and then fhew the Blowers to be of a yellowifh 
Bur pie, fomctimes about the Mouth or Gaping 
place, arid the other parts of a Burplifh red: 
but in fome others they are Blew, or of a Bur- 
plifh Blew. » 
XV. The Blaces. They grow among Bufhes, 
Brakes and the like, upon Barren Heaths, as at 
Hampftead near London -, alfo in Fertil Failures, 
Bufhy Copfes, and low Woods, and fuch like pla- 
ces in many parts of this Land. But the firft of 
them Gerard fays, grows upon Hampftead Heath, 
among the Jumper Bufhes and Bilberry Bufhes, in 
all parts of the faid Heath, and in every part of 
England he found it where he Travelled. 
XVI. The Times. They Flower from the be- 
ginning of May, thro’ June and July, and their 
Seed ripens in July and Auguft. 
XVII. The Qualities. They, viz. the Grains, 
are hot and dry in the firft or fecond degree, of 
thin and fubtil parts, and abound with a great 
uantity of Volatile Salt. They are Hyfterick, 
permatogenetick, and excite to Venery. 
T he Virtues. 
XVIII. Authors have faid little or nothing of 
their Virtues, but fome fmall matter of their Vi- 
ces, as that the Seed being taken inwardly, will 
affeft theHead and Brain, as Darnel will, troubling 
them, and caufmg a kind of Drunkennels, Vertigo, 
or Giddinefs. The Seed in fine Ponder, being gi- 
ven to half a Dram or more, for fome fpace of 
time, in ftrong Broth or Wine, is faid to provoke 
Lull. 
XIX. As Cow -Wheats generally in all places 
where they grow among Corn thrive ; fo if they 
be not Weeded out, but fuffer’d to grow till the 
Corn is Reaped, their Seed mixes with the Wheat 
in Thralhing, whereby when Ground, the Meal is 
browner or darker colored ; and fo the Bread 
which is made thereof, will be blacker than other- 
wife it would be. 
* . 
CHAP. DCCXXXIII. 
Of W H E A T Common ; 
Red, White, Grey. 
I. 'T' H E Names. If is called by the Arabians 
A Henta, and Hencba ; in Greek n»efr.- alfo 
(f rumentumi Fruendo:) in Latin Triticum, 
(quod tritum ex Spicis fit, ut dicit Karra :) alfo 
Siligo, which is the Name of the finelt and molt 
pure Wheat ; and in Englilh Wheat. 
II. The Kinds. Wheat if we refpett the Ear 
only is either Naked and not Bearded s or Beard- 
ed but if we rejpeft the color chietiy, it is 
threefold, viz. I . Triticum arfia rubri, vel Spicis 
rubris, Red Wheat, which is accounted the finelt 
and belt of all Wheat, and this is twofold, viz. 
either arifii fpicaia , with Bearded Ears -, or Tri- 
ticum muticum, Triticum rubrum fpica mutici, 01 
Wheat 
