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Show 57 ~J La Bede Of the Hiftorie of Plants. q The time. It is for the moft part fowen in anieene, afd fometimesin the Spring, which proueth to bea Graine more fubieé to putrifaciion than that Secale. List. Zeafine Spelta, Spelt Come, which was foweninthefall of the leafe, by reafon the Winter doth ouertake it before it can attaine to his perfect maturitie andripeneffe. Ofthe Hiftory ofPlants, Adorenm, and Semen adorenm, | Thetémper. @ Thenames. : Rieis called in high Dutch, Rockett in Low: Spelt, as Diofcorides reporteth » ouri than Barley. Galen writethin his Book fheth more culties of fimple Medicines, Spelt is es ofthe F2in all his tem= perature in Dutch, Rogge: in S panifh, Centeno: in eae gala : in French, Seig/e: which foundethafter the old Latine namewhichin Pliny is Secale and Farra- ameane betweene Wheat and and may in vertue be teferred to the kinde Barley. s af Bar. ley and Wheat, being indifferent to them both. | The vertues. G0, lib. 18. cap.16. @| The temperature, Rie asa medicineis hotter than wheat,and mere The floure or meale.of Spelt core boyle Water with the pouder ofred $ aunders, and2 d in A little forcible in heating, wafting, and confuming aw ay that wheretoitis applied. Itis of amore clammy and obftru&ing nature than Wheat,and harder to digeft ; yet to rufticke bodies that canwell digeft oyle ofRofes.and Lillies,vnto the form eof a Pulteffe ,and applied hor, taketh away the fell the legs gorten by cold and long ftanding. ingre of it, it yeelds good nourifhment. ¥ Spelt (faith Turser)is common about Weif burghin high Almanie, eight Dutch miles on en- ‘B fide Strausbourgh = andi there all men vie this it for q The verties. wheat ; for there groweth nowheat at all: yet I neuer fawfairer ant pleafanser bread in anypl ace in Bread, or the leauen of Rie, as the Belgian Phyfitians affirme vpontheir praétife, doth more forcibly digeft, draw, ripen, and breake all A- all my life, than I haue eaten there, made onely of this Spelt. The Corneis muchleft than Wheat, and poftumes , Botches , and Byles, than the leucn of Wheat. Rie Meale bound to the head in~a Linnen fomewhat fhorter than Rie > but nothing {6 blacke, ¢ Cloath, doth affivage the long continuing paines Of Starch Corne. thereof. Triticum Amyleume Cuap. 48. | The defcription, Starch Corne, Of Spelt Corne. i His othet kindof Speltot Zeais called ofthe G The defiription, Pelt is like to Wheatinftalkes and eare: itgroweth vp witha mu Ititude of ftalks whichafe kneed and joynted higher thanthofe ofBarley: it bringeth fortha difordered eare, for the moft partwithout beards. The cornes be wrappedin certaine dry huskes , from whichthey cannoteafily be purged, and are joyned together by couples if twochaffie huskes, out of which whentheybe taken theyare like vnto wheat cornes: it hath alfo many roots as wheat hath,whereofitis a kinde. © Theplace. Iegrowethinfat and fertile moift ground. | Thetime. Tris altered and changed into Wheat it felfe, as degenerating from badto better, contraryto all other that do alter orchange ; efpecially (as Theophraftus faith) if itbe clenfed, andfo fowets but thar not forthwith, but in the third’ yeare. @ Thenames, TheGrecians hauecalledit we and ae: the Latines Spelta ; in the Germane tongue Spelt? and Sinkelsin low Dutch, Spelte in French, E/peaurre : of mot Italians. Pirra, Farra : of the Tulcans, Biada > of the Millanois, 4iga :inEnglith, Spelt Corne. Dioftorides maketh maentio® of twokindesof Spelt : one of which he names exe, Or fingle : another, dix, which: bri forte twocornes ioyned together ina couple ofhuskes,as before in the defcription is ment Spelt which Diofcorides calls Dicecces,is the fame that Theophr and Galer'do name Z ancient Latines hauecalled Zea or Speltabythe name ofFar, as Dionyfius Hi 69 the Bride and Bridegrooine did cate of that whichthe Grécians do call<The fanie thingFar 4Silepiades affirmeth in Gales, in his ninth Bookeac. cording to the places affected, writing thus; Faz. 76 quad Zea appellant : that isto fay,ar whic h is cals led Zea, 8c. And this Faris alfo name d of the Latines, dor, , ficientlyteftifie: The old Romans ({aich he) did call facred marriages bythe word ¢ Germane Herbarifts Amyleum Frumentumor Starchcorne; andisa kinde of grain fowen tothat endyora three moneths graine, andis very like vnto wheat in ftalke and feed ; but the care thereof isifet round about, and made vp with two ranks, with certaine beards, almoft after the man- ner ofBarley,and the {eed is clofed vp in chaffie huskes, andis fowen in the Spring, @ Theplace. Amilcorné, or Starch corne is fowen in Ger manie, Polonia, Denmarke, and other thofe Ea- fterne Regions,as well to feed their cattel and pullen with, asalf6 tomake ftarch 3 for the whichpurpofe it doth veryfitly ferue, G Thetime. It is fowenin Aututnne, or the fall of the leafe, and oftentines inthe Spring, and for that caule hathbeenecalled Trimeffye,or three months grain: it bringeth his feed to ripeneffe in the beginning of Augutt, ahd is fowen in the Low-Countrie s in the Spring ofthe yeare. G The names, Becaufe the Germanes haue great vfe of it to make ftarchwith, they do call ir Bmeleozn3 Wea F 3 thinke |