22 CH aF.' 5 2, T heatrum Botamcum, __Tribe 12.' 
~aiidnotbrcad for a long time, thus faith Pliny : an other is called Far Clujunm brought out esi Italy, which being 
fowne in fat ground, bare a (talke as high as a man, or higher, with fxc joyrts, and as many leaves thereon: the 
earean handfutl long, the beardes very long and rough, the huskes many thicke and great, that contained along 
fie nder <>raine, with a deepe furrow,& hard to be thradied forth,wherof Tltny thus latth.it is not to be thraflied 
as Wheate and Early, but mud be parched as Millet and Panicke is, to be cleanied, and therefore mud be fowne 
with the huskes on it.There is another alfo which they there call Frcument a fix eyuarres that is,'Wheate with fixe 
ro wes of cotne in an eare, and that in lome places of Savoy they call it Sle riguet, because the eare is the firongtft 
and roughed, and hath fixe rowes, when others have hut fcuie there is alfo another kinde of led Wheate a- 
bout Mattfco in the moid grounds, whofe corne isdender and long,. and therefore they call it Long game, 
whereof for necefficic they make bread, but clfe they (eede their Swine and Pullen therewith, and this may 
feeme like to Galen his Brytej, of Thracia. There are alfo divers other varieties of Wheate, as Lugdunenfis faith, 
with divers Nations which arc very hardly knowne by their doubtfull and double fignifications. 
The Place 2nd Jinte. 
Many of thefe forts of Cornes have growne with us; but from whence fome oftbetn were brought, we know 
nat, favin™ the double Wheate which groweth about Lyons, and that of Candy-, theaouble Wheate, Summer 
Wheate, and that of Candy, arc to be lowne in the Spring, the red in Autume, and are reaped m August, orihe 
end of Inly at the fooned. 
The Shames. 
Tt is called in Greekenu"8<,in Latine Triticum quod tritnm ex Jfick fir,ns Varret faith,as alfo v.V© , that is, fru- 
mentttm a fruendo, idejt,vefcendo diSlttm quod culmus extulit ttt ait Iarro , Thcfirft is generally called by all 
Triticttm or arijtie carers, and fome take it to be Rebus, Lebel calleth it S iligejjiica mutica : the fecor.d fas alfo the 
other lorn thereof ) is called Triticum ariftis circumvallatum, (f- Loca by Lebel, but mod likely to be the Rebus oi 
the ancients a rubere erani, as this is; V'doneus feemeth to snake it Triticum Tiphitum, and Tifha ccrealbi : the 
third is the Trie,cum Leca alter,tm of Label, and fet forth to t e Tragu, by Lugdunenfis , and by others called Triti. 
atm Imidnm or Lucidum : the fourth is called Triticum ramojttm by firry, and Jrinium m.ultiplici fpica, 
bv Label, but by Tabirmor.tar.Ki Tr.tieum Tiphiiwm multifile! fpiea : the fift Henorius Bellus lent unto 
cluftns from Candy by the name of Agrioflari, ar.d fo Pena in his Italian Baldus doth call it, and Frttmcn- 
tum fylvejire Creticam, but the figure that hce hath thereof doth not, in my minde, anfwer the de¬ 
fection thereof not having any beardes: the fixe wee have called 7 riticum Tripolitanum, of the place from 
whence it was brought, but as 1 faid.it may, in my minde be referred to Zea, as well from the place, as from the 
greatnefle of the growth : the lad is called Setanium, and Triticum tnmejlre by icW.Tlie Arabians call it Hen,a 
and Hencha, the Italians Fcurmento, and Grants ■ the Spaniards Trigo i the French Frcument, the Germans Weyjfen, 
the ThitchTerrrc, and we in English Wheate. It cannot but admiremectoreadethe conceits of fome of the an¬ 
cients cocerning corne, why fome (hould have beardes and others not, fuppofing that in a fertile field, the fame 
kind would be without beardes or au.lies, & in a leane ground it would have aulnestand agaire.thatinadrietiire 
or yeare it would be bearded,and in a moid notiagaine,that great windes esufe their beards to be broken, which 
th c quieter doe not: andlafily, that the thi ckc lowing and growing, doth caufe them toTe without beardes, 
when the thinner bringeth them. Galen alio wnteth inhisfitd Bookc and lad Chapter of the faculties of Nou- 
rifhments, that both he and his aged father, who tooke delight in Husbandry, having lowed both Wheate and 
Barly very well clenfed from any other feede (catrered or mixed among them, ofpurpofe to prove w hether they 
would change their natures into Darnell and Haver grade; or whether thefe were naturall feedcs of their ownc 
kinde : found that much Darnell rofe among the choife Wheate, and but little among the Barly : and that much 
tsEgilttps or Haver Grade rofe among the Early, whereby it feemeth he doth confirmethat cmrant opinion, that 
thefe and other graines & feed will change into others.cither better or worfe ; but Purely 1 could never mecte with 
that Countrie or Husbandman that could certainely prove it (although feme have averred it verbally & carred- 
ly)that there was any (uc.bCMctamorpboJts,but that thefe & fuchlike weedes too many by a great many;do fpring 
up in the Corne fieldes, notwithstanding the greattft indudry any man can ufe, I doe verily beleeve, becaufeof 
thefird curfeof Godupon the earth: and therefore to cleare the corne, they are faine to weede the fieldes; for 
the ground it feifehathfo much ofthefeedesof thefeweedes inclofed therein, that lowed it felfc before, and 
were not, nor could not be weeded out throughly, that although every (cede were piikt that fhculd be 
fowne, yet when it is Sprung, it will not want thefe weedes ;and in this one point I docbeleeve was Galen and 
his Father deceived, who although theychofe and cleanfcd their feede, yet they cleanfed not fufficiently the 
field wherein they lowed their feed. And this may alfo ferve for an anfwer to Matthiolw country men of Anemia, 
who by tradition had received that opinion, as many alfo in our land have, which fheweth the world is dill wil¬ 
ling to contintte the old errors,'but nocertatnc truth of tranlmutation or tranfubfiantion.or trinfmigraticn,call it 
what you wilhof their Barly into Haver-grade, or wilde Oatesfor let any man trie the truth hereof in his Gar¬ 
den that is well weeded before hand,and lb continually kept weeded, and having fowne his Barly or Wheate, or 
any other grainc each by it felfe; and folikewife Darnell, Haver-grade, or any other feede, if hedeenotfinde 
the fame feedcs doc every one keepc their own kind,but degenerate intoother kindes, let him then beleevc that 
opinion, and fo will I, but not till then for the barrenne(leorfruitfulnefTe,the moifiure or drineffeof the earth 
with fuch likecafuallya may make anyherbe togrowfmalleror bigger, which may feeme ro be akindeof 
change,but yet is no change of nature or kinde; but the alteration of heibes and fioweis to be double, or to war\t 
a part of the forme from his original!, is but as we call ic Lufus 01 - Inxus nature, and they will rediread ingtnium, 
as we fay, as a man that is borne with fome mifhape or deformitic, as to have fixe fingers on a hand, to be borne 
with teeth, and fuch like, when as neither the parents, nor the fucceffion provethfuch continuall: For the word 
and appointment of God in nature mud dand firme, who in the Creation, fet this law to the Heibes and Trees 
that they (hould have their feede in them according to their owne kinde, and not according to another kinde. 
The Vertucs. 
Galen faith, Wheate is in the fird degree of hcate, but neither drieth uor moifiencth evidently yet Pliny faith it 
drieth.To eate the comes of greene Wheate, faith Tiofeorides, is hurtfull to the domacke and breedeth wormes .• 
a plaider made of leavened bread doth more diged, than that which is made of the Wheate it felfe, by reafon of 
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