So Of the Hiftorie of Plants, Lib. i. 
^y The time. 
It is fowen in the Spring in India, as Eratojlhcnes witneffetb,when it is moiftned with Sommer 
fhowers. 
t^The names. 
The Grecians call it »K*. or as T heophrajtus faith, w ■. the Latines keepe the Greeke word Orj- 
7a : in French it is called Riz in the Germane tongue, !Stf?,and EpjS : in Engliih, Rice. 
^y Thetemperature and verities. 
Galen faith, That all men vfe to flay the belly with this graine,being boiled after the fame man- 
ner that Chondrtu is. In England we vfe to make with rnilke and Rice a certaine food or pottage, 
which doth both meanly binde the belly, and alfo nourifh. Many other good kindesof food is 
made with this graine, as thofe that are skilfull in cookerie can tell. 
Chap. Of oSX'fillet, 
<JM ilium. 
Mill, or Millet. 
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«[y The defeription. 
Ilium rifeth vp with many hairy ftalkes knot- 
ted or jointed likewheat. The leaues are 
long,andlike the leaues of the Common 
Reed. It bringeth forth on the top of the ftalke a 
lpokybulli or mane, called in Greeke »«», like the 
plume or feather of the Pole reed, hanging 4owne- 
wards, of colour for the mod part yellow or white ; 
in which groweththe feed, fmall, hard, and glitte- 
ring, couered with a few thinne huskes,out ofwhich 
it eafily falleth. Theroots be many, and grow deep 
in the ground. 
2 Milium nigrum is like vnto the former, ftuing 
that the care or plume of this plant is more loofe 
and large, and the feed fomevvhat bigger, of a (hi- 
fi ingblacke colour. 
i > ^y Theplacc. 
It loneth light and, loofe mould, and profpercth 
beft in a rnoift and rainy tiine. And aha Columella, 
itgrowethingreateftaboundance in Campania. I 
haue of it yeately in my garden. 
«y The time. 
It is to be fowen in A prill and May, and not be- 
fore, for it ioyeth in warrne weather. 
The names. 
It is named of the Grecians, : of forne, 
and of Hippocrates, Pajpale , as Hermolaus faith : In 
Spanifh, Mijo : in Italian, Miglio •• in High-Dutch, 
Jin French, Millet: in Low-Dutch, I^itgjin 
Engliih, Mill, or Millet. 
^y The temper. 
It is cold in the firft degree, as Galen writeth, and dry in the third, or in the later end of the le- 
cond, and is of a thinne fubftance. 
^y Thevertues. 
The mealeof Mill mixed with tarreislaid to the bitings offerpents,and all venomous hearts. 
There is a drinke made hereof bearing the name of Sirupus Amhrofij, or Amhrofi his fyrup,which 
procureth (weat,and quencheth thirft,vfedin the city of Milan in Tertian agues. The receit 
whereof Henricm Rantjzonius in his booke of the gouernment of health fetteth downe in this man- 
ner : Take (faith he) ofvnhusked Milla fufficient quantitie,boiIe it till it be broken • then take 
fine ounces of the hot deco&ion, and adde thereto two ounces of the beft white wine, and fo giue 
it hot vnto the patient,being well couered with clothes, and then he will fvveat throughly. This is 
likewise commended by Johannes II turnout, in his booke of Pradile. 
Millet parched, and fo put hot into a Iinnenbag, and applied, helpes the griping patnesof the 
belly, or any other paine occafioned by cold. 
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