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i 3 To thefe may be added another Weft-Indian Panicke, fent to Clufius from M .lames Ga, 
ret of London. The eare hereof was thicke, clofe, comparand made Taper-fafhion, fmaller at 
the one end than at the other ; the length thereof was more than a foot & halfe. The fhape of the 
feed is much like the laft defcribed, but that many of them together are contained in one hairie 
huske, which is faftnedtoavery {hortflalke,as you may fee reprefented apart by the fide of the 
figure t 
4 Pm cum vulture. 
5 P.miaemfjlueftre, 
WildPanidke. 
4 Germane Panicke hath many hairy roots growing thicke together like vnto wheat as is all 
the reft of the plant, as well leaucs or blades, as ftraw or ftalke. The eare growethat the top fin- 
t le, not vnlike to Indian Panicke, but much lelTer. The graines are contained in chaffie feales red 
eclining to tawny. * 
5 The vvilde Panicke groweth vpwith long reeden ftalkes/ull of ioynts,fet with lone leaues 
like thofe of Sorghum, or Indian Panicke : the tuft or feather-like top 'is like vnto the common 
reed, or the eare ofthe gralfe called Ifchxmon^ or Manna gralfe. Thetoot is fmalland threddy. 
T be place and time. 
ThekindesofPanick are fowen in the Spring, and are ripe in the beginning of Augult. They 
profper bell in hot and dry Regions, and wither for the mod part with much watering,as doth Mil 
and T urky wheat : they quickly come to ripenclfe, and may be kept good a long time. 
4 f The names. 
r ' Panick is called in Greekeix»««, and Diodes thePhyfitionnamcth it MelFrugum : the Spa- 
niards, Pani%o : the Latines, Panic urn, of Pannkda : in Englifli, Indian Panicke, or Otemeale. 
«f Tlfe temperature. 
Panicks nourilh little, and are driers, as Galen faith. 
Thevertuesl 
Panicke ftoppeth the laske, as Millet doth, being boyled (as Pliny reporteth) in Goats milke 
and drunke twice in a day. Outwardly in Pulteifes or otherwife, it dries and cooles. ’ A 
Bread made of Panick nourifheth little, and is cold and dry, very brittle, hauing in it neither 
clamminelfe nor fatnefle ; and therefore it drieth a moift belly. ’ B 
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