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better than I. thftt is, that it firft fpringeth up fomewhat reddifh, which afterwards groweth greene, and bringeth 
forth divers jointed dalke6, fomeWhat higher than Wheate, bearing at their toppes fmaller cares than Wheatc, 
fet in iliort rowes, with fliortcr and (harper, rougher,and more prickly awncs: the graine within being fmaller 
and !ancker,and blacker than Wheate,and is not wrapped in huskes like Wheate, buteafily fallling of it feife out 
eftheearevvhen itis ripe: while it flovvreth the care (landeth upright and being neare ripening it bloweth it 
downe: the rootes are many, but not fothickebuQiing as Wheate, nor confumingthe fertilitic of the foylefo 
foone as Wheate. 
1 . Secale sjlivum feu minus. Small or Summer Rye. 
This other Rye groWcrh lower with fewer (hikes, a fliorter and leffer eare, yet armed with awnes as tfceo- 
ther but fewer; the graine or corr.e alfo is leffer, and is lowne in the Spring onely, and herein confided! the dif¬ 
ference. 
5, Secalelatifolwm. Rye with great leaves 
This Rie hath whiter Rallies then others, round alfo and braked, the leaves that are fet at the joynts are much 
larger then the common fort, being a cubic long and an inch broad, fomewhat lharpeor rough about-he edges" 
like the o! dinary Rie: the care at the roppe is large and great, fet with flaarpe long aw nes,and as it were dented 
like the vulgar a full hand breadth, the graine within is alfo like unto Rie, blackifli but greater then it, being al- 
moll:like Wheate : the roote likewife bufhechlike therooteof Wheatc. 
The 7 ' lace and 'lime. 
The firflis generally fowen in all chefe Northeine regions and more in Denmark:, andthofe more Northerly 
parts then elle where, their climate not ferving to well for Wheate, and fownein Ottoier and Bljvemker, and 
chcfccond in onely,and are all ripe in Augufi ntaMy : the laftis brought out of die Ead countries,’and 
Bauhinitt faith he had onely the leaves and the Eare out of, Signer Contarino hi s Garden. 
The Blames t 
This hath not found as yet any Grceke Eacher to name it, but is generally called in Latine Secale of Pliny, and is 
his Farrago alfo, yet Farrago is in many places of him, Varro, Colamella, and others, taken for a greene fodder 
for cattcl 1 , as P/wyffieweth how to make a Farrago of Wheatc, Columella of Early. Varro faith, Farrago was 
fo called,either na odfarferro caCumfuit, am cjuodpnmnm a Farris fegete Farrago fen captafnit :but the true Far¬ 
e'S 0 is underdo.d by the bed Authors now adayes to be no other tilings than Barly Tragus and fome others 
tool.e it to bed' ihgo ; Cordu , on 'Diofccide, to be Olyra ; fome others to be the Tipi,a of Thnphrafhu, which for 
didined ion fake is called Typa cercalis, and becaule ch e'Dmch call it Rogghe, therefore D odonstts maketh a Latine 
name of it, and calleth it Rogga: Beth in our countrie, and in others, they have a cuttome to fow Rye and Wheate 
- neare ofequall parts in their fields,which they callMaflin.as well in the fields,as in the mea’leithe French Metcil & 
d» Mafic, as 1 laid before, tjuaf Mifcelaneafeges ; and the country people and meaner fort with us make it their 
ufuall bread come, being better than deane Rye, and worfe than W heate. The firfl is remembred by all Authors- 
the (econd, both by Tragus, who calleth it Siligo afliva, Dodonats Secale sfllvum, Lttgduncnfs Scale alteram, 
and Banhinm Secale venum vel minus \ the lad is mentioned onely by Bauhinus, who calleth k Secale lot,folium, 
and faith he had it out ofthe noble Contarcno his Garden, a Magnifier of Venice. The Italians call it Sr gale ■ the 
.Spaniard, C.er.tcno ■ the French Sale, and Segale : the Germane, Rocken, and the Dutch, as I laid, Rogghe, and we 
ill Snghjb Rye, 
The Venues, 
Rye is of a more clammy fiibftance than Wheate, and neither is digefted fo quickly, nornouriflieth fowell,, 
j’et ic is accounted to be next in goodneffe unto Wheate, elpecially if the corne be fweete and good, and the bread 
well fermented and baked, and givethafoli'deandfirmenonrifhmentto the body. The medicinable qualities are, 
it i, more digeding than W heate, the bread and the leaven thereof ripeneth and bi eaketh empodmnes, biles, and 
other lores with more fpeede. The meale of Rye put betweene a double cloth, and moidened with a little vine¬ 
gar, and heated in a pewter-dllh, fet over a chaftingdifir of quicke coales, and bound fad to the head, while it 
1 cepecli heate in it, doth much eafe the continuall paines of the head : the afhes of Rye draw put into water, and 
fc ff'ered therein a day or a night, and the cliappes of the hands or feete wafhed therewith, doth heale them, faith 
MauhioUh. 
Ch a >. xuir. 
Hordcttm, Barly. 
E have two or three forts of Early growing with us in fundry parts of the land, which Imtaneher? 
to Drew unto you, and with them one other not fowell knowne unto us. 
I. Hordettm diflichnm. Bcare Barly or <ommon Barly, 
The common Birly hath fliortcr and tenderer flalkes than Wheate, the leaves are fliorter,' 
broader and rougher, the eare islhortfet with tworowes of comes in very good order, each en¬ 
dued in a huskc, and having a long rough awneor beard thereat, which is greater and longer than Wheate, and 
whiter alio,am 4 doth not eafily, or of it leife fall out of the huske : the roote is great, and fpreadeih much, having 
the more (tore ut flalkes riling there from, to lupply the flenderneffe of the eare. 
2. Hordeum difiichum minus, Bigge Barly. 
This other differed! not-from the former, but that it is fmaller, both ftalke, eare, andcorne, and is fowne the 
lated, and reaped with ihefoonefl; lome doe take this to be Turkic Barly, but I fomewhat doubt that, for ha¬ 
ving a graine growing in iny Garden, taking by fome to be Turkic Barly,'which is fomewhat like this Hordeum 
dshchum, that is with a fmall bearded care of two rowes: the corne it (elfe was like a Barly, but fmaller : the 
huskes was brighter and channelled as it were, or furrowed on the one fide, and round on the oilier, the kernel! 
being nearer to a Wheatc than a Barly, and eafily comming forth of thehuske;! am more than halfc pervaded ic 
is the Zctt CMonxocces or Briza. we have another fort hercoflikewife.whofe corne is a little fmaller and whiter,. 
Ddddd 3 ’ called 
