Chap. 733. 'EngUjh Herhs. 
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Wheat Naked without Beard or Awns. 2. Triti- 
cum album , Triticum ariflis albis Siligo , White 
Wheat and this is alfo twofold, viz. Triticum 
album Arif} is Munitum vel AriJIis Spicatis, White 
Wheat with Bearded Ears, or Ears with Awns ^ 
or Triticum album muticum ■, Siligo, vel Triticum 
album Spica mutica , or White Wheat without 
Beard or Awns* and thefe white Wheats fome 
think to be as fine a Grain as the formet, and fome 
will have them to be the fined and bed Wheat of 
all } without doubt, the difference in Goodnels 
between them is fo little as not to be difcerned. 
3. Triticum Grifeum , vel Cine ream , Triticum 
Grifeum ariflis munitum , and this is that which I 
take to be the Zcti, or Zea Zea of the Ancients, 
which they called Spelta or Spelt-Corn and Ado- 
rcum , alfo Ador , which the Ancient Romans made 
to be a kind of Far, or Bread-Corn , being a courfer 
fort of Wheat : This with us, is generally through 
the Nation called Gray Wheat , and is a very good 
and profitable fort of Grain, tho 5 not fo abfolutely 
fine and choice as the former Red and White Wheats. 
To thefe let me add, 4. Triticum Spica multiplici , 
Triticum ramojum , the Branched, or manifold 
Eared Wheat, which Taber namont anus calls Tri- 
ticum Tiphinum Spica multiplici , which for all that 
I know may be a Species of the Tipba, or Tipha 
Cerealis of Dodomeus , their Defcriptions are fo 
nearly alike. 
T he Defcriptions , 
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III. The fird, or Red Wheat, Its Root is very 
Fibrous , and towards its Head as it were jointed , 
Wheat Red or White, Bearded. 
I as l ^ e Stalks grow up higher , at every Joint one 
I if a/IC i at l ^ e f ourt b Joint ufually comes forth 
j the long Tar , or Spiked Head , one on a Stalk, with- 
out any Branches , which while the Head / lands up- 
right, blooming J. mall yellow Aglets, which when 
it is ripe , a little bows down or bends its Head , by 
rea/on of its weight , which is fet with two double 
rows of Grain or Corn , within feveral Chaffy Coat s 
Wheat White or Red, 
not Bearded. 
or Husks , which when it is cleanfed from them , is 
of a firm compel! Subftance, which is of a Dun red- 
dig) color ; and the whole Ear is of a kind of red- 
dig color when it is perfeflly ripe -, which is either 
Bearded with Awns , or not Bearded, but plain and 
fmooth , that being all the difference , which yet 
makes no Difference in the Goodnefs of the 
Corn. 
IV. The fecond, or White Wheat. This in its 
Roots , Leaves , Stalks, Ears, Flowers, Corn, Mag- 
nitude, and manner of growing, differs nothing 
from the former or Red Wheat, but only in the 
color, the Stalks and Ears being whiter , and the 
Grain or Corn of a clear yellomig white color This 
is alfo twofold, viz. either Bearded with Awns 
or plain and fmooth without Awns, in like man- 
ner as the Red Kind. Some , and the Generality 
of Farmers, maintain the Red Wheat to be the 
fineft and beft Wheat, and to make the Swceteji 
and Whit eft Bread : Whilft others again main- 
tain this White Wheat to be the chiefe/i of all 
and to make truly the Beft and ITbiteft Bread ’ 
I indeed know them both very well, and have 
eaten Bread, Cakes , and other things made of the 
fine Flower of them both ; yet I muft fay, by 
all that I could obferve , that 1 could find no 
difference between the Sweetnefs, Whitenefs and 
Goodnefs of the one and the other but that to 
me, the one appeared as good as the other-, and 
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