m4 Ch a p.3. 
Tbeatrum Botanic uni. 
rib* 12 . 
Chap. III. 
Zea. Greekc Wheate. 
| Here arc fome other forts of Cornes that more properly may be accounted kindes of Wheate^then of 
] any other fort of Graine, and therefore are to be entreated of before either Rieor Barley in their 
■ feverallorders,andfiift of that Graine which the ancients called Zen a diftinft Corne oiffering from 
i 1 others, and by T)iofcorides laid to be of two forts(although Theophrajlus and Galen have made men- 
1 tion but of one, (which is the ‘Dicoccos ofDiofcorides as it is thought, the one Diofcorides calleth DU 
coccos the other/wf>/f*butfirfU thinkegoed tofetdownethe^of 7 ^^j?«/ashedefcribethit. 
1. Zea TheopbraJU & antiquorhm. TheZca of the antients or Greekc Wheate. 
The Gretke Wheatc rifeth up with many ftrong joynted high ftalkes and leaves on them mod like unto Wheat*, 
the Hare is plemifull in Cornes as Jbeophrajlus faith, (bare without beards as Lobel and fome others have thought 
yet Luirdunenfis fetteth it forth if his bee true Zen with beards, for Theophrajlus maketh no mention thereof^ 
whole Graines are indofed in many chaffie huskes, being the lighteft of others which are notfoeafily beaten 
out as whea;c,and is very p'eafantro all creatures: the rootes are many,and ftrongly faff ned in the ground where¬ 
by they draw much ncurifhrr.ent out of the ground, defiling a rich foile, and thereby quickly draweth forth 
the heirtof the ground. T his is the trueft defeription of Theophrajlus and the ancients Zea , efpccially drawen 
out of the ninth Chapter of his eighth booke of thehiftory of Plants. Vnto which of all our graines or of thofe 
that the liter writers have referred it unto,this may agree thereto in all parts I cannot finde, for neither Matthio - 
lus his Spelta nor Lugdunenfis his Zea are naked but bearded, nor can it agree wirh Camerarm his Zea '/pica mu - 
tic.i , nor yet with Tragus his third Zcajpicamutica, having neither ftrong nor tallflalkes,nor yet many growing 
from fuch a buftiie route as Theophr.tjlus giveth to his, unlcfle it may be faid it is degenerated, for Theophrajlus in 
the eighth Chapter of his eighth Booke iaith that no Corne is fo apt to be metamorphofed wholly into others as 
Tipb/and Zea, but I thinkc their tranimigrations of plants aieas likely as their tranfmigrations offoules. 
?. Zea dicoccos five Spelta vulgo. Spelt Wheate or Spelt Corne. 
The Spelt Come is in Ifalke and leafe fomewhat like unto Wheate but not rifing fo high, the Bare is fmaller 
and not orderly fet in rowes: the Cornes grow double,that is two together, but not inclofed in one huske as ma¬ 
ny have thought, but in feve rail huskes and hardly to be 
1. j. Zea dicoccos fpica tnutica <# monococcos oriftii munita. 
Spelt Wheate and S. Peters Corne. 
thrafiied out, which then fomewhat refei*ble Wheate: 
the roote is plentifuil in firings and fibres. 
5 . Zea monococcos Jive (implex Jive Bryzi 
S. Peters Corne. 
This fpringeth up with a (ingle (lender and fhort 
ftalkc.but firme, bearings (mall tbinnefpiked eare, let 
with rough beards like Barley alfo, being as it were 
flat, with the Cornes fet onely on ‘two fides, every one 
contc inedfingly in a huske, which are as Tragus laich of 
a darke red colour, and the Bare alfo, but in fhape like 
Wheate or Barley, which maketh blacke bread, and ofs 
an ill tafie as Ainejitbeus told | Galen. 
The place and Time . 
The firft was anciently fowen in Greed, /fia and thet 
Eafi countries, and accounted by them to bee next in 
goodriefle unto the (inert Wheate , being a Winter 
Come: the (econd is fowen in many places of Italy and 1 
France, and will abide in a moifi ground holding firme ’ 
the Winters injuries, yer profpereth beft in a more • 
fruitful! dry foile, and is a W inter Come fowen in Sep- > 
tember and OElober and reaped in July. The lafi is a Sum-1 
mer Come grow ingin many places of Italy, &c. where 
but in want of L etter they make no bread of it. 
The Names. 
Tr is called in Grceke CUond^eia. i n Latine alfo Z 
which C,aza tranflateth Semen, taking it as it is likely \ 
from Pliny, who before him faid that Zea was Far\. 
or Adorcr.m, which wav called alfo Semen, as the mod • 
fingular Corne of any other. Thefccondis thought by 
manv to be the Zea of 7beophraftus and Qalen, but as I 
faid it is more likely to bee the Zea of T) iofeorides (Tor 
thefe two authors have in many things given names to 
Plants the one farrediff ring from the other as may bee | 
knowne by the Mandragores, the one fo farre differing 
from the other as though they had not lived in one and 
the fame countrey or rather in one and the lame world) 
and is therefore generally called by moft writers Zea 
dicoccos , and peradvenrure was the old Romanes Far 
and Ador , or femen Adoreum of the later Roman;- .and is now caHed Spelta .* the lafi is variably called by divers. 
For LMattbhlus calleth it Zea (implex and referrerb it to Diufcoridr his (econd Zea, which mofi do call rjtJovococ- 
- n arid is thought to be that Brizct of Cjalcn which he faw ifl the fields of Tbracia and Mac - >•.« tad tooke it to 
be 
