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Show ee i ceeSR ic rm aei scetahn,seknenencada eeaieed Of the Hiftorie of Plants. Lis. 1. —_. Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 79 = q Thevertues. Cuar. 58 Thefeed of Darnell, Pigeons dung,oile Oliue, and péuder ofLinefeed, boiledtothe forme of A OfDarnell. a plaifter, confume wennes,hard lumpes, and {uch like excrefcenfes in any part ofthe body; The newbread wherein Darnel is, eaten hor; cauifeth drunkenneffe :1n like manner doth beere B orale wherein the feedis fallen, or put into the Malt. 2 Lolinm rubrum, "Lolium album, r'Loliuma White Darnell. Darnell taken with red wine ftayeththe flux ofthe belly,and the ouermuch flowitig ofwomens Cc Red Darnell. termes. Diofcorides faith, That Darnell! meale dothftay and keepe backe eating fores, Garigrenes, and D putrified vicers ; and being boyledwith Radifh roots, falt, brim ftone,and vineger,it cureth {pfea: ding {cabs; and dangeroustetters,called in Greeke, raze, and leprous or naughty {curfe. The feed of Darnell ginen.inwhite or Rhenith wine, ptouoketh the flowers or menfes. A fume mate thereofwith parched barly meale,myrth, faffron,andfrankinfence, madein form ofa pulteffe,and applied vpon the belly; helps conception,and caufetheafie deliuetance ofchildbearing. Red Darnell (as Dio/torides writeth) being drunke in fowreor harfh red Wine, ftoppeth the laske, and the ouetmuch flowing ofthe flowers or menfes, and is a remedie for thofe that piffein bed. _ G The danger. Darnell hurteth the eyes,and maketh them dim,ifit happen in corne eitherfor bread or drinke; which thing Ovidin his fir booke Faftorum hathmentioned, in this verfe: Et carcant lolys oculos vitiantibys agri. And hereuponit feemeth that the old prouerbe came,That fuch asare dimie fighted fhould be faid, Loliovictitare. Cuar.s9. Of Ree. | The defiription, Ice is like vnto Darnellin thew, as Theophraws faith: it bringeth not forth an eare, like corne, but a cettaine mane or plume, as Mill, or Millet, or rather like Panick. The leaues,as Pliny writeth, are fat and full of fubftance, like to the blades oflecks,but broader : but(ifneitherthe foile I q The defcription. Mongthe hurtfull weeds Darnell is the firtt. Itbringeth forth leaues or ftalkes like thofe of wheatorbarley, yet rougher, witha long eare madevp of manylittle ones, euery particular one whereof containeth two or three graines leffer than thofe of wheat, fearcely any chaffie huske to couer them with ; by reafon whereofthey are eafily fhaken out and feattered abroad. 2 Red Darnell is likewife an vaprofitable corne or graffeshauing leaues like barly. The joints of the ftrawor ftalke are fometimes ofa reddifh colour, bearingat the top a fmall and tender eare, flat, and much in forme refembling the former. s G Theplace. . Theygrowinfields among wheat and barley, of the corrupt andbad feed,as Galen faith,efpectally ina moift and dankithfoile. Bet §| The time. They fpring and flourifh with the corne, and in Auguttthe feedis ripe. 1 : ; The names, Darnellis called inGreeke,«a: in the Arabian Tongue, Zizania and Sceylen: In French, Yuray : in Italian, Loelio : inlow Dutch, olict : in Englith,Datnell : of fome, Tusay, and Raye and of fome of the Latines, Triticum temulentum. 2 Red Darnell is called in Greeke ost. or Phenix; becaufeofthe crimfon colour:in Latifé Lolium Rubrum,and Lolium Murinum : of fome,HordeuvmMurinum,andTriticumMurinum:in Dutch, 5 > Muple coven: in Englith,Red Darnell, or great Darnell Gtaffe. : ; . | The temperature, Darnell ishot in thethird degree, anddryin the fecond.: Red Darnell drieth without fharpe nefie, as Galenfaith. : @ The hor climate didalter the fame) the plants of Rice that did growin mygarden had Ieauesfoft and graf= fie like barly. The Houre didnot thewit felfewith me, by reafon of the iniurie ofour vnfeafonable yere 1596. Theophraftws concludeth, that it hatha floure ofa purple colour. But,faith my Author,Rice hath leaues like vnto Dogsgraffe or Barley, a fall ftraw or ftemfull ofioyats like corne:at the top where- ofgrowethabuth ortuft fatre valike to barley or Darnell, garnifhed with round knobs like {mall goofeberries, wherein the feed or graine is contained ;euery fuch round knob hath one fimall rough aile,taile, or beardlike vato barley hanging thereat. Ariftobulus, as Strabo reporteth, fheweth, That Rice growesin water in Ba@ria, and neere Babylon, and is two yards bigh,and hath many eares,and brin- gethforthplentyoffeed. Iris reaped ar the fering ofthe feuen ftarres, and purged as Spelt and Otemeale, or hulled as French Barley, | Theplace. e z = It growethin theterritories of the Baatrians , it rae ONS : Babylon, in Sufium, and in the lower partofSyria, t growethin thofe dayes not onely in thofe countries before named, but alfo in the fortunate Iflands, and in Spaine, fromwhence it is brought vntovs, purged and prepared as we fee, after the manner ofFrench Barley, It profpereth beft in fennyand waterith places. Gs a The |