T * I B E 12. 
The Theater of Tlants . 
Chap* i. ini 
5. Traicum Cvetitum. 
The wilde Wheate of 
< 5 . TriticurnTripelttanttm, 
Tf if <>//Wheate, 
Triticum Tripotitanttm > 
Tripoly Wheate. 
This W heat® being brought into England from Tripoly, 
was lo wne for experience onely to fee what it would pro¬ 
duce, it had ftalkes two cubits high, with broader leaves 
than our Wheate, and eares an handfull long, with very 
long beards, and blackifh graines like Rie within them. 
Peradventure this may be the Zea Theophrafti . 
7 * Tri tic tint trimeflrc. 
Summer Wheate. 
This kinde hath narrower eares, longer beards, and 
fmaller graines, and is onely to be fowne and reaped as 
Barley is with us, yet as it is earlier lowne in the warmer 
countries, (o it will be the fooner ripe, but will not endure 
thecoldnclfe of our Winters. Wee have other Teeming 
diverfities of wheate growing in our owneLand, well 
knowne in divers countries which they call byfeverall 
names, as Duckes-bill Wheate, and Cone Wheate, &c. 
but I cannot fay unto which of the Comes, either of the 
ancients or of our times they may agree : And I finde that 
Lugdunenfis (heweth fome other kindes alfo of red wheate 
growing in the feverall parts of France and Italy , as name¬ 
ly one fort growing about Lyons , which they call Ble rune, 
and Grofble, whole eares have have no beardes,and whofe 
graine is the largeft and fulleftof all others, yet notfo 
good to make into bread as others,and therefore they there 
carefully husband it, that when they have hulied it, they 
boyle into a pultage with milk(as our furmentie pottage is) 
which they greatly aflfeft, and he there faith alfo, that fome 
would take it to be the Far or Adoreum of the old Ro¬ 
manes, whereof when it was hulled and boyled they lived 
for many yearcs in the beginning of the citie,as / liny (aith. 
Primus antiquu Latio cibw, magno argumento in Adoreu 
dsnit ut diximw , pttltc autem non pane vixifte, longo tempore 
Romanos manifeftum eft t efic, for they liv ed on Pultage . 
7 - Triticum t rime fire. 
Summer Wheate. 
