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both ways to a confiderable length : whereby it is fo 
matted before it is fully malted, that it cannot be opened 
without breaking the Come. To avoid which, they pare 
oft a Turft about three inches thick, ,md laym/the 
a? 1 ? °Y er , tJ ! e , bare ground, cover it with the Turff, 
till the Plot looks like a green Field, at which time, the Corn 
is well malted Then taking it up in matted pieces, they 
dry it on a Kiln, or in the Sun. 
The SPIKE or HEAD of the ^EGYPTIAN MAUZE. 
Given by Sig r . Boccone (formerly Botanici to the Great 
.Duke Ol T~7/ C b/tuv ^ Ji. .1 1 ■ r 
Duke of Tuskany) who brought it with him from Sicih 
wnprp it- ic f _r_ 1 ^ 1 .— 
vvhere it is frequently nurfed fn Gardens. The % ( as 
Acojia calls them) here grow upon it in feveral Bunches, 
™ 1K . or tcn in a Bunch 5 two inches and I long, and as 
thick as the middle Finger of a labouring man 5 being now 
fhrunk up, and perhaps alfo dwarfed by the place of its 
growth. r 
This Plant, as it grows in /Egypt- and the Indies , isde- 
tcribed by Thevetu w, with the Title above } by Oviedus, un- 
der the Name of flat anus, abfurdly received by feme, as 
himfelf noteth ; by Pifo, who, with the Natives of Bra file, 
calls it Pacoeira 5 by Acojia, with the Name of Mufa, from 
the Arabian Mous It grows three or four yards in height, 
and « of a yard (a) in compafs. Yet this Trunk, fo great, M Theve-- 
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is { {>) but annual It hath Leaves above a yard and -i 'f' . , 
lono- inH -L_ 1 - 11 1 __ J (b) Oviedus 
1 ’ — ciuuvt d yciiu ana * 
long, and more than 1 a yard broad. The Pies grow 
toward the top of the Trunk, near the fhapeand bignefs of 
Z nfrT’ fometimes one or two (r) hundred of W Acoft, 
them. Of a fo ft melting fubftance, and a fweet and molt 
delicious Taft. In Bra file, either eaten by themfelves, or 
^ ahdicir Manc/ioca-flower 5 boiled, or fryed (d) with ( ^ Hfo . ; 
Part of a fort of MAMBU, a great Indian Cane. In 
Bauhinus s Pinax called Arundo Arbor. Defcribed by Wor- 
T?' whereas his was black, This is of a ftraw-colour: 
and much fmaller,/c. about feven inches in compafs. Some 
r™ S row nme y^s high. Tis hollow, quite 
through, excepting, that at every Joynt, Yis clofed up with 
a tranfverfe Plate or Floor. NecefTary, for the addnu 
height 11 and fturdme ^ s P ro P°rhonable to fo great " 
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