Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
6 8 
Secitle. 
Rie, 
Lie. r. 
The time. 
It is for the moft past fovvcn in Autumne, and 
fomctimes in the Spring, which proueth to be a 
Graine more fubiedt to putrifa&ion than that 
which was fovvcn in the fall of the leafe, by rcafon 
the Winter doth ouertake it before it can attaine 
to his perfed maturitie and ripeneife. 
The names. 
Rie is called in high Dutch , ISOCfeClt t in I.ow- 
Dutch,l50gg6 ' in Spanifh, Centeno .- in Italian, Se- 
gala : in French, Scigle: which foundeth after the 
old Latine name which in Pliny is Secale and Farra- 
go, lib. 18. cap. 15. 
The temperature. 
Rie as a medicine is hotter than wheat, and more 
forcible in heating, wafting, and confirming away 
that whereto it is applied. It is of a more clammy 
and obftruding nature than Wheat, and harder to 
digeft ■ yettorufticke bodies that can well digeft 
it, it yeelds good nourifhment. 
H The vermes. 
Bread, or the leauen of Rie, as the Belgian 
Phyfitiansaffirmevpon their pradife, doth more 
forcibly digeft, draw, ripen, and breake all A- 
poftumes , Botches , and Byles , than the leuen 
of Wheat. 
Rie Meale bound to the head in a Linnen 
Cloath, doth affwage the long continuing paines 
thereof. 
Chap. ^.8. Of Spelt Come. 
<[f Thedefcription. 
S Pelt is like to Wheat in ftalkesand eare: itgrovvethvp with a multitude of ftalks which are 
kneed and joynted higher than thofe of Barley: it bringeth forth a difordered eare, for the 
moft part without beards. The cornes be wrapped in certaine dry huskes, fromwhich they 
cannot eafily be purged, and are joyned together by couples in twochaffie huskes, out of which 
when they be taken they are like vnto wheat cornes : it hath alfo many roots as wheat hath, where- 
of it is a kinde. 
€| The place. 
It grovveth in fat and fertile rnoift ground. 
The time. 
It is altered and changed into Wheat it felfc, as degenerating from bad to better, contrary to 
all other that do alter or change-, efpecially (as T heephrajlm faith) if itbcclenfed, and fo lbvven 4 
but that not forthwith, but in the third yearc. 
U The names. 
The Grecians haue called it and f<«-. the Latines Spclta : in the Germane tongue ^vpcltj, 
and isjunttcltin low Dutch, Trench, Efpeautre : of moft Italians, Vina, Farra .- of the 
Tufcans, Biada .- of the Millanois,oxt/fa •• inEnglifh, Spelt Corne. Viofcorides maketh mention 
oftvvokindes of Spelt : one of which he names .va., or (ingle .-another, which brings forth 
two cornes ioyned together in a couple of huskes, as before in the defeription is mentioned. That 
Spelt which Diofcorides calls Dicoccos, is the fame that Tbeopbr.aad Galen do name Zea. The moft 
ancient Latines haue called Zea or Spelt aby the name of Far, as Dionyjius HalicarxaJJates doth fuf- 
ficiently teftifie : The old Romans (faith he) did call facred marriages by the word becaule 
the 
