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Wheat White Bearded. 
without doubt, the difference is little or none or 
if there be any, it would puzzle the Wtfeji of 
Men to find on which fide the tthiteli and beft 
would fill . . . n . 
V. The third, or Gray Wheat. This in its Roots, 
heaves, Stalks, and manner of growing, is like the 
j oritur, but the Stalk is larger and jiroxger, higher, 
Wheat Gray ; Zea, or Spelt Corn. 
and of a brown color and the Head or Ear hereof , 
is much larger , of a brown color alfo , with four 
Sides or Rotes of Grains or Corn, Jo that it feems 
to be four fquare , which is contained in double 
brown Hush, all which are Armed with Awns j 
fo that the whole makes a large Bearded Ear± and 
Wheat Gray, or Greek Wheat . 
the color of the Grain within, is almoff of the color 
of the Red Wheat, but much paler, the Corn it f elf 
being much of the fame fajhion , but pluthper, or 
fuller and larger. The Meal or flower of this, 
makes admirable good White Bread, Cakes, 6fC. but 
it is fcarcely fo White as the others, nor yet fo 
Sweet. 
VI. The fourth, or Branched, or manifold fared 
Wheat. This in its external form of Roots, 
Leaves and Stalks, is much like the Red Wheat, 
faving that the Stalk feems to be fiorter, and 
the Ear in color , with its Husks or Chaff, Awns 
and Grain within it, it cxaUly like to the Ear of 
the Red Wheat, faving that the Ear of this hoe 
feveral other fmaller Ears, as 1, 4, 6 , or more, 
growing out of the fides thereof. This feems to be 
a Species of Dodonatus’s Tipha, or Triticum Tiphi- 
num, which by the Defcription thereof, can be no 
other than our Bearded Red Wheat. It is thus 
Defer ibed. Tipha rifes up with a fingle and fen- 
der Stalk or Straw, the Ear is long and round. 
Bearded with long, hard, Jharp Awns, fomewhat 
clofely fet together, and the Grain is fmall and 
light, but hard , and of a redder color thari other 
Wheat, enclofed in divers Chaffy Husks. This 
feems to me to be Our Red Wheat before De- 
feribed. 
VII. Some may Object againft me, That Our 
Gray Wheat is nor, nor can be the Zea, or Spe/ta, 
of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, becauie fay 
they, that Zea , Spelta, or Greek-Wheat, had its 
Ear Naked, without Beard or Awns, in proof 
(of which, they bring the Teftimonies of Camera- 
Tins, 
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