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CEREALIA: 
C O R N E S- 
CLASSIS DV ADECIMA. 
THE TWELFTH T%1EE. 
> CHAP. I. 
Tritium , Wheate, 
A ving finifhcd the Claffis of the Pulfcs, the next to follow in order unto them is of the 
Cerealia, that is, all the diverflties of graine and Come, whercunto I will ad/oync 
with all the fcverall Pultages and orderings of them, as the old Romar.es and Greek's 
ufcd them in their times for their foode, as meate or drinke, or for medicine which 
iieAlicaor CbondrusCrimnon, Tragus, Pfi/aua. Zythum Curmi, and the reft : after 
which mud follow the Grades (for that all the forrs of Cornes are the mod noble and- 
uiefull kindea of Grades, and therefore preferred before them) Radies, and 
Reedes. 
To beginne then with the mod noble Graine of all others, namely Wheate, it is of 
divers forts, fome with beardes or aulnes, others withouc, fome of a white colour, 
both dalke and eare, others with a redder, called red Wheate, and fome blew or of other colours, fome flat, o- 
thers fquare, fome with Angle heads, others with many, lome with Angle rowes, others with double; and fome 
to be (owne before Winter, and therefore called Winter come, others onely in the Spring, called Sommer 
corne,: to give you ample deferiptions of every ooe particularly, were to enlarge this Volume, and yet to filial! 
purpofe: Iwillthcreforegiveyoua defeription of one that may ferve for a generall explication of all the red, 
with onely fuch diderenccs as may not be omitted, and yet in as compendious a manner as may be. 
i. Triticumjpicamutica. Bareornaked hite Wheate, 
The white Wheate rifeth up from the creeping joynted roote, with three or foure or more dalkes.with fairc 
broad and longgicene glafiedike leaves,at every j'oynt one, & atthefourth jovntulually commeth forth the long 
care or fpiked head, one likewife on a dalke without any branches, which while the bead dandeth upright bloo- 
tneth (mail yellow aglets, and when it is full ripe, bowethdowne the head a little with the weight thereof.and is 
let with two double rowes offeede or corne, wrapped up in divers c'naffie skins or cotes,and is when itisclcnfcd 
of a Arme compacd (ubdance, fumewhae yellowifh and clearcwlthall.andisthe chiefed Wheate of all making 
the pared white bread. We have in fame countries of this Land another fort of bearded Wheate, which the 
country mcii call a red drowed Lammas jbecaufethe dalkes are redder.orelfe little difference in the care, 
, 2. Tritunm arifijimunitam. Bearded or red Wheate. 
This fort differeth not in the manner of growing in any refpefts from the other, onely the head hereof is lar¬ 
ger and redder than the former, with foure Ades feeming to be foure fquare, and bended alfo : the mcare whereof 
maketh nor fo pure white bread. LoWcallcth this Tritium Loca, from the Dutch appellation, and peradven- 
ture may be the Tutor Adoreum of Piir.y, &c. 
3. Triticum Lucidum. Bright eared Wheate. . y 
The eare hereof fheweth plainelythe difference,which is fomewhat longer and greater,of a right browne Me w- 
ifh colour, long and rough, with beardes and aulnes, and the graine harder,and of a browner colour :this kindc is 
a courfc graine, yeelding much more branne than the former, making alfo a heavier and blacker bread -Lobe! call 
letll this Tritium Loca alteram. Lugdunenfis feem:th to call it Tragus, and called, as he faith by As French Bit- 
turgnet, 
4, Triticum multiplicifpica. Double cared Wheate. 
The double eared Wheate is likealfo unto the fecondfqrt, and differeth in the eare, chiefely which isfhorter 
and hath divers other fmall eares riAng from the Ades of the greater, the beards or aulnes ate (Lor ter, and fo is tl e 
(hike alfo; the graine it lelfe is loofer and leffe compact, 
y, TrifolUtm Creticum. The wilde Wheate of Candj. 
The wilde Wheate of Candy groweth in (hike and leafe like unto ordina* Wheate, the eares are fomewhat 
rougher and blacker, the beardes alfo fhorter, and the cornes leffcr and bluntatone end, more like to Rie than 
Wheate. 
6 . Triticum 
