1 I 3 oC HAP. 14 ^ 
Tbeatrum Botan icum. 
Tribs 12 , 
1 . HcrdcumTifticbon. 
Bcarc Barly, or common Barly. 
, Herd turn polyflicbum* 
Square Barly. 
called Sprit Birly not differing die ; if there be a Barlytbat hath no ailcs or awnes faith Lctel, and fo doe X, I 
know it not 
3. Hordeum po/yfiichum Jive hybernum. Winter Early, or fquare Barly. 
This kinde growethlike the former, both in Oalkes and eares, differing onely in not having fo many ftalkes 
rifintj from the rooces, and that the earcs are fet with more rowes of comes, in fome fofire, in fome five or fixe, 
and chat it is fowne earlier chan che foi mcr. 
4. Hordeum hexaftichum v mum, Naked or bare Barly. 
This other Barly tha r hath many rowes of ornes in theeare,differeth not from the lad, but in thefe two parti¬ 
culars, the corncs inclofed in the huskes, have notthst skinne on them rhat the ocher hath, being lanke fmall. yel¬ 
low, and fhoit, almod like Wheate, but lefl'e, and is fowne in Avrill and not before,and is not feene or fowne by 
any almoll in this land. 
The <?lace and Time. 
The fird is ourufuall Barley in all the South parts of this Kingdome ; the other in the North parts onely ; the 
third is likewife rcalonable freq-ient in our Land • but the lad,although it be rare, yet we have had and fowne 
it in ou Cwardens, and was ripe in the beginning or middle of Auguft : we have not heard by any, that any kinde 
of Barlv luthbee.xe lb wnebefore Winter in our Land, although Lobel faith fo. 
The Thames, 
1 c is called in Greeke *?* Q » in Latine Hordeum: the fird is generally fo called as it is in the titletTragut & Cordtes , 
H»>d-.um minus, and by Columella Hordettm CjaLttcum y as I thinke, or elfe the fmaller fort of this kinde, becaufe 
itis whiter: 1 he third Lobel faith is leafonable frequent inthis Land, hemeancth in the Wed parts where his 
i hiefe refidence wa> in his former dayes,for it is fcarfe fecne or knowne in the parts about London,Tragus calleth 
it Hordettm ma]M. Ctardus hyemale ; and others polyfiichurn-, the lad is called by Lobel Hordeum polyftichum vernum y 
Ik is mod likely to be rHat w liich Galen calleth Gymnocritbon y that is Hordeum nudum,by which name 1 had it from 
a friend,and may be ahu the Cantherinum of Columella, which hee faith, the country men called hexaftichum : wee 
have a fmall kinde of gx aine brought from Germany to our Drugids in great quantitie, termed French Barly, and 
is probable to be this Barly, which Cordtu f?ith, was fird fent them out of Italy, having fixe rowes in the cares, 
and not much unlike Wheate, but leffer. Cordus hath let downe more forts hereof, which I thinke fit to Anew 
V'ouherejthetwo forts of Barly Diftichon and H(xaftichon y this of fixe rowes,that of two in the eare,faith 
is common with us,fol,qi.in Diofcord.yct that which hath but two rowes in the care, maketha recompence inthe 
i oote by the greater number of dalkcs that rife from thence, for faith he,I have rumbred fixtie fialkes and above 
rifing from the roote of one come, but it ufually hath t wen tic, thirty, and foitic ftalkes 3 tut befidcs thefe two. 
