Tribe 12 . Tb eTheaterofTlants . Chap. 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 . 
c*»». VII. 
Of Siligo. 
JHis alfo is diverfly underftood by the ancients, for firft it is taken for a kinde of Wheate as Pliny faith, 
] /. 18 .cap. 9. Siligincmproprie dtxerim Tritici delicias conveniens traBibus humidis, and againe cap. t o.Si- 
j ligo nunyua matureficit pariter.&c.and Columella faith that after Fo6<«,which is chiefe'ly to he fowens 
m octJ the fccond fort faith he is Siligo,wl)ich is the chiefcft for bread :and in another place nameth Sil'm and 
Hordeum that they can endure vtrk tcforcs .Secondly it is taken for a faultie or degenerate W heare, as 
Columella faith, Omne triticumfolo ulignofio poft tertiamfationem vertiturtn Siliginem. ■ Thirdly it is taken for the 
fined flower of Wheate both by Pliny in divers places,by Celfus and luvenaH. By Pliny thus, lujlurn eft igrans 
Campania quam vacant caBratam, c modit redtrt fextarios quatutrr Siliginit. And in another place i Ptifana tuicm 
Siliginit/extarios quinque. Cclfiie faith Ex triticofirmijfima Siligo deindc ’Urmia, infirm tor expoUine, infirmijjtmm 
cibariut fault : where note that ’Pollen is here taken by him to be a courfer fort of flower then Simi/a , as Ctca- 
rint panit is laid to be the worft,and luvenaH in his Saty rs faith, 
Scd tamcn ctr niveus mollique Siligmc faUus 
Scrvatur domino. 
Chap. V 11 1 
Of Crimnon. 
*Ee finde much dlverfitie recorded of Crimnon, firft that as fijdlin faith it was wont anciently to be made 
"c of wheate, as Altca or Cboudnu was of Zea: then that (firimnon of the Grarcians, and Smnlaox Simi- 
; lago of the Latines is the courfer mealc of the husked graine called Far whereof they made their pultage; 
' againe Diofcoridet faith lib.i.c. 83. and 84. that Crimnon is the courier meale of Zea, and of white 
Wheate,as alfo of Olyra. It (faith he) nourifheth much, but it is (hardly made (ome readc, but others ) hardly 
digefted,and it bindeth very powerfully, efpecially if the Zca whereof it is made be firft parched. 
Chap. IX. 
Of ChondrHs or silica, 
OrdfO- of the Grarcians feemeth to take the name quafigranum for the excellence, and Halica or All. 
ca of the Latins, ah alendo from nourilhing.for all authors have fo tranflated Chondrus, (although ts£cU 
ncta maketh Chondrut & Alica to be two fevcrall forts,but he is contradiffed by all Latine writers -'Ac 
isdiverllyalfounderftoodby the old writers; firft for a kind of graine, as Pliny in reckoning up’the 
kindcs of former Comes nameth Millet, Panick_, Lentills, Cictrs, AlPa, and Galen frimo almento. 
rum faith Alicxex gcnetc tritici eft, and Paulus oAlgineta faith Chondrut ii like unto Wheate but more glutinous- 
hut moieufually for the moll excellent meate or pultagethat wasufed inthofe times: Diofcondt, ; a ich Halica it 
made o^Zea called dicoccos, Galen , Paulut eAsgmcta and tZltiuf fticw in many places of their workes that it 
was made alfo of Wheate,and other forts of Corne : but that Far and Halica were different forts of meate is 
flicwed (ufficiently by Phr.y and others, for Pliny faith ii£.l8. caf. 8. Alittd ejfie Zcam e qua fit Altca , alittd verts 
Far, and in the Chapter before, the old Romanes lived oncly of Far made of Wheate 300. yeares, andin the 21 
Booke and 25 Chapter he faith that Halica was a meate lately knowne, aaid as he thinketh not in iife-before the 
time of Pompeius magnus. The manner of making it Pliny fetteth downe lib, 18 .cap. 1,, Alica faith lice is made 
of Zea firft fteeped in water, then beaten in a woodden morter, tor a done morter would breake it too much: the 
beft ismadeby the painefull labour of thofe that were bound to their peftell (yetthcchicfe men had one oflron) 
the huske being beaten offic was agiine beaten in the fame manner,that the naked graine might lie broken, and is 
of three forts, the frr.allcit, the fecondand the greatcft,yet faith heit had not the whiteneffe that commended it 
untill Chalkc were put to it.which gave it colour and tenderne(Tc,and afterwards a fourth part of Gypfumfn here¬ 
of it feemeth that Ptoyhimfclfe feemeth to wonder they (hould added_)bat it is likely they were walked away 
before they were ufed as Galen (heweth, that their brothes muft bee heedcfully .obferved to bee made of Alica 
being wafticd. Diofcoridet, Galen and Pliny doc much commend the good nouriftiment it maketh ; for faith ’PS., 
ny, no man doubteth but that it is exceeding profitable, whether icbee taken wafhed with Medeor boyledin 
broths (which Galen ciWethChondroptifana) or pottage, and that if the old Grecians had knowne ic, they would 
not have written fo much in praife of Ptifiana.Diofcorides faith it nourifheth more then Rice Sc bindeth more alfo 
and is mo re profitable to the ftomacke : beingboyled in V inegar and applyed it helpeth the Leprofic,takerh away 
theruggedneffeof the nailes, and is hclpefub in the beginning of a Fiftula in the eye,the decodtion thereof ea ft rh 
their paines that have a Laske or the blooddy flux. 
Chap. X. 
Of Atbera. 
lofcorides faith that uAthcra is made of Zca finely ground, but is made into a kinde of Tupping like li¬ 
quid pappe.and given to Infants, and is aifo ufed in pulteffes to be applyed outwardly. Rut tlvre be fonie 
authors that affirmeit was made alfoofWhcite,0/yruand ZmylumAni thereupon hive fetitdown that 
the Booke Binders pads is this Atbera, * v . ■ 
»d<StU s c>u. 
