Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Lib. i. 
thinkegoodtonameitinLatine-^wy/fwwyrwwfw^w: in Englifhit may be called Amelcorne, 
after the .Germane word ; and may likewile be called Starch Corne. Tragus and Fucbfius tooke it 
tobeTn't;r»»«(WOTe/rr,orthreemonetlis wheat ; but it may rather be referred to the Farra ; for 
Cf>/K 7 »c/Afpeakethofagrainecalledi r <jr#rf//oy?r«w ? whichisfowenintheSpring : and for that 
canfe it is named Trimejlre, or three moneths Far. If any be defirous to learne the making of 
Starch, let them readeZWo»e»J laft edition, where they (hall be fully taught; my felfe not wil- 
ling to fpend time about fovaine a thing, and notpertinent to theftory. It is vfed onely to feed 
cattell,pullen,and make ftarch,and is in nature fomewhat like to wheat or Barley. 
Chap. 50. Of Barley i 
The defeription. 
B Arley hath an helme or ftraw which is fhorter and more brittle than that of Wheat, and hath 
more joints; the leaues are broader and rougher; the care is armed with long, rough, and 
prickly beards or ailes,and fet about with fundry rankes, fometimes two, otherwhiles three, 
foure, or fix at the moll, according to T heepbraftus ; but eight according to T ragus. The graine is 
includ ed in a long chaffie huske : the roots be (lender, and grow thicke together. Barley, as Pliny 
writeth,is ofall graine the fofteft, and lead fubiedl to cafualtie, ycelding fruit very quickely and 
profitably. 
.1 fiordeum Dijlicben. i Hordeum Polyftichumvertium'. 
Common Barley. Beare Basley,or Barley Big. 
1 The moflvfuall Barley is that which hath but two rowes of Corne in the eare, each graine 
fet iuftoppofite to other, and hauing his long awne at his end, is couered with a huske flicking 
clofe thereto. 
2 This which commonly hath foure rowes of corne in the eare, and fometimes more, as wee 
hauc formerly deliuered, is notfovfually fowenwith vs;the eare is commonly (horter than the 
former, but the graine very like ; fo that none who knowes the former , but may eafily know the 
later at the firft fight, 
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