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other fores we have had and feene which not having kept any particular figure or note of them are dipt out of our 
knowledge and remembrance further to deferibe them, and therefore let this f uffice to have faid fo much of 
them : yet having kept the figures of fome ofthem I here exhibite them unto you. 
The Place pad Time, 
The mold common is onelyfowen in Europe wherefoever it groweth, and as it is likely came out of the Ea- 
flerne countries towards India, from whence have come likewife fome of che'other. and the reft from the Weft: 
they are not to be fowen until! ApriU, and unleffe the yearc be hot the third fort feldome commeth tomaturi- 
tie,although the firff oftentimes doth, and doe both require ftrong fat ground. 
The Names, 
It is called in Grceke’ewfi©-and Panicum in Latine, and usiSm accordftg 00 Tiiofcorid.cs and Galen, ptti i,©- as 
Thocles hath it, which as moft doe gather is rather deduced fromydw yuodmeheum yuidpiam Jigmficat them from 
f/iAw©- which is blacke, and it may be thereupon Pliny calleth it Melfrugum, ytt Theephpaftm fpcaketh both of 
Tlymos and Adeline as of feverall plants. Pliny faith Pmicnrn a puniculis dittum fait, and putteth it atnon" the 
Cornes as Diofcorides and Columella doe alfo, but Galen as is before fayd among the Legttmina Pnlfes for the rea~ 
Ions before (hewed. Bauhintte maketh two forts ofthe firff, theone hee calleth Germanicum panicula minorebc- 
caufeit may be growing in Cjermany, the head was leffe which Tr ague ,Tuchfitu,Cordus and others fet-forth, and 
yet as I faid in the beginning they cannot be two different plants: the fecond is remembred bv Clufiue, Dodon **>, 
Label, Lugdmenfis and ochers. The Arabians call it Dochon, the Italians Panico, the Spaniards Panifo, the Trench 
Paris and ‘Panic, the Gcrmanss Pfenich_md Heydelpfenic{, the Dutch “Poland we Panick, 
TheVertttes, 
F anick is as Millet cold and dry,and giveth little nourifhment, and as Galen faith Milium is better to all purpo- 
fes then Panick, fweeter alfo and eafier todigeft, yet faith he the countrey people feede thereon being boyled in 
milke even as they doe Wheate, but faith he, that of Italy exceedcth oatsoSAJla tloamcs Leo in his Hifiory of 
“Africa faith, thacin fome places thereof they make very fine bread of Panick, of what fort hementioneth not: it 
ftauerh Fluxes as Milium doth, it is given to Pullen .Pigions and other fmall birds 5 but hath no further ufe in Phy 
iicke then to dry up moift and fluxible humors. 
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Tragopyrum. Bncke-whcate. 
S a Complement to finifh this Hifiory 
of Cornes and Graines I muff fet this in 
the fall place, becaufe although - the 
forme and manner of growing be diffe¬ 
ring from all the former, yet hecaufe 
the feede ferveth to the fame ufe, it is 
reckoned by the later writers defervedly to bee joy- 
nedimtothem. Itrifech upwith divers roundhol-. 
low, brittle, reddifh ftalkcs a yard and morehigh, 
fet with divers leaves each by it fdfc on a (hike, 
which is broad and rouni' and byforked at the bot- 
tome, finall and pointed at the end, fomewhat re- 
fembling an Ivieleafebat fofterin handling; at the 
toppe of the (hikes come forth divers duffers of (mall 
white flowers which turne into fmall triangular 
blackifh feede, fomewhat like unto a Beech nutbut 
much lclfer, with a white pulpc within : the rooteis 
fmall and thready. 
The Place mdTinte. 
It is thought tohave bcene firff brought out of eM- 
frica into Italy, but it is now generally fowen in moft 
ofthefe Northerne countries, where for the ufe and 
profit is made of it many fields are fowen therewith, 
and that ufually not untill Aprilt, and is ripe in Ah, 
gufi ,and will not refute to grow in an hungry ground, 
but is held generally to bee as good as a dunging to 
the ground whereon it is fowen, the draw thereof 
alfo being turned in thereto. 
The Names '. 
It is generally taken to be the E \vnpti, Sryfimum of 
Theophrafim, which Gaejt tranflateth Trionttm, la 
alfo to bee the Into of Pliny fome to put a difference 
betweene this £ry(imum and the other, call this Ery- 
fimum cereale : it is called by Matthiolut, and Lug- 
dunenjis Trumentum Sarafenicum. Dodmtw Tel 
gopyrum and Tragopyrum, Tragotriticum and Ta- 
gotritictm as the "Dutch names doe import Back: 
rreyde and Butckfnneydt, Intgut calleth it Ocy- 
Ttaeoppum, Buck-wheacc. 
