1138 Chap. 24* 
Theatrum Botanicttm - 
T r ib e 12 1 
Chap. XXIV. 
CM,Hem lndicum maxima CM»U ditlnm^ve Trum r»r**> Indtcum, 
vclTurcicnm aliquorum, Indian or Turkic Whcate. 
$§jj((j§S 3 o? Millet jlthough farre creo^' ytc^amio^pee^any°more thTn^Wo^edalfdifc- 
M//$i although Tome have made divers forts th f J ^ ,,,„ ;„ n0 rhr Cm ■ rhr 
>?S a kinde of Millet: 
alterwards. , UXmm veXTurcix»mvulq«re. The ufuall Iniuncx Turkic YVheate. 
This fWM» Whe«eTooteth from the roote which is thicke andbufhie.fuudry flrong and tall (talkes fixer 
eight foote high,as thicke as a mans t >xf lium indtcum maximum Maiidiltu+fivi Frumniuntnaiium 
w reft if it grow in any rankc ground, Vf U'unUum. The ufuall Indian or (Turtle Wiicate. 
full of great joynts with a while pith m 
the middle of them,the leaves are long, 
twifc as large and great as of Millet; at 
the toppes come forth many feather- 
like fprigs, bending downewards like 
unto the toppe of Millet, which are ei¬ 
ther white or yellow or blew, as the 
graines in the eareswiU prove, which 
fall away, nothing appearing alter 
them ■ but while they are in (lower at 
the joynts of the fta'kes with the leaves, 
from wichin two or three of the lower 
joynts up towards the. toppes, come 
forth the cares one at a joynt w“ have 
many leaves foulded over them f malleit 
at the toppe, with a final! long buih of 
threads or haires hanging downe at the 
ends, which when they are ripe are 
to bee cut off ; which foulds of 
leaves being taken away,the head ap- 
peareth much like unto a long Cone or 
Pineapple, fet with fix or eight or ten 
rowes of Cornes.otderly and clofely fet 
together, each being almolf as bigge as 
a Peafe not fully round, but flat on th, 
frdes that joyne one unto another, of 
the fame colour on the outfile as the 
bloomings were, hard but brittle and 
eafieto bee broken or ground, with a 
white meale within them tomewhat 
dry and ryx clammy in the chewing. 
Lobl expreffeth the figure of another 
fort as he thinkerh becaufe as hec faith it 
grew greater and higher, and the roote 
grew greater, and with moreleparatc 
tufts, the roote not differing in any 
thin" elfe: but 1 thir.ke it no fpecihcall , , r T , . . . , 
(j:pf-r cnce not underflanding by any that it is taken for another fort, and therefore I have omitted it and 
Ipukt no marc ^ frnmentum bidicxm alterttm five mitim, The other leffer Indian Wheate. 
Thi oilier Indian Wheateis like the former both in (hikes and leaves, but not halfe fo high or great, thcearcs 
iikewifeare not halfefo bigge, of as differing colours as it, but they doe not grow at the joynts of the ftalkcsas 
the other biuat the toppes following the flowers,which rnakerh a fpecificall difference betweene them . the 
graine it (elfe is being made into bread not of that nourifhing qualitie that the greater fort.is but weaker by much, 
nor is fo flrong to breede fo much blood as it. 
Th PUce and ITiwe. 
Tlie firfl orowcih in theEaft and Welf Indies, and from both places have beene brought unto us, and have 
grswne with us, and foinetiu.es borne ripe eares but not alwayes, and will defire a flrong rich ground as the 
Millet doth, fjwne cnely in the Spring and ripe in September : The other is a ftranger,and fcldome fecne w ith us. 
The Names. 
It is very probable that this graine is that which maketh mention of to grow in TaBrh, which 
be faith was reported to be as bigge as Olive hones* and T 3 liny following him relateth the fame thing out of him* 
but altereth the Olive (tones into eares of Wheate, which (heweth how lubjeft it is toerrour,to goe upon heire- 
fay and bare report, for Tkeopbrafh* relateth the greatneffe of the graines but by report, which might wereafe by 
the way as it did betweene T eophrajlus and Pliny his time, to be as bigge as Wheate eares i Mattbiolui ) r Dcdy»uhi t 
Lvodunenfis and others condemnc Fucb/im for calling it FrumentumJ urcicum^ according tohis Countries dia- 
j e A ar e found more juft to be blamed themfelves, for no doubt but this very Indian Wheate which plentifully is 
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