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Show brain Of the Hiftorie of Planes. So List Ofthe Hiftory ofPlants. Cea Thetime. It is owenin the Spring in India,as Erato/thenes witnefleth,whenit is moiftned with Sommer fhowers. @ The names. The Grecians call it 4%, or as Theophraftus faiths ur: the Latines keepe the Grecke wordory. Xa; in Frenchitis called Riz. : inthe Germane tongue, ifsjand Wyss in Englith, Rice. q The temperature and vertues. Cuar. 61 Of Lurkte Corne. 1 Frumentum Afiaticum, 2 FraumentumTurcicum, Corne of Afia. ; Turkie Corne, Galenfaith, That all menv{e to {taythe belly withthis graite,being boiled after the fame manner that Chondrus is. InEngland wevfe to makewith milke and Rice acertaine food or pottage, which doth both meanlybinde the belly, and alfo nourifh. Manyother good kindes of foodis madewith this graine, as thofe that are skilfull in cookerie cantell. Cuar.6o. Milium. Mill, or Millet, Of Millet. q The defiription. Tlinmvifeth vp with manyhaityftalkes knotted orjointed likewheat. The leaues are long, and like the leaues of the Common Reed. It bringethforth onthe topof the ftalke f{poky bufh or mane, called in Greeke si, like the plumeorfeather ofthe Pole reed, hanging downewards, ofcolour for the moft part yellowor whites inwhich groweth the feed, {mall, hard,and gliftering,coueredwith a few thinne huskes,out ofwhich iteafily falleth, The roots be many, and growdeep in the ground, 2 Miliumnigrumis like vnto the former, fauing thatthe eare or plumeofthis plant is more loofe andilarge, and the feed fomewhat bigger, of a thihing blacke colour. q The place, It louethlight and loofe mould, and profpereth beftina moift and rainy time. Andafter Colvmells, it groweth in greateft aboundance in Campania. I haueofit yearely inmy garden. G Thetime, Its to be fowenin Aprilland May,and not before, forit ioyeth in warmeweather. G The names. Tt is named of the Grecians,xyz: offome, wyre0s? andof Hippocrates, Pafpale, as Hermolays faith : In Spanith, Myo: in Italian, Mizlio - in High-Dutch, Pirg sin French, millet : in Low-Dutch, Wirg + in ; Englith, Mill, or Millet. | The temper. “3 Triscoldinthe firft degree, as Galen writeth, and dry inthe third, or in the later endof the fecond, andis ofathinne fubfance. @ The vertues. The meale of Mill mixedwith tarre is laid to the bitings of ferpents, andall venomous bealts. There isa drinke made hereof bearing the nameofSirupus Ambrofij,or Ambrofé his fyrup,which procureth fiweat, and _quencheth thirft, vfedin the city of Milan in Tertian agues. The receit whereofHenricus Rant{=onius inhis booke ofthe gouernment ofhealthferteth downeia this manner: Take (faith he) ofvahusked Mill a fufficient quantitie, boile it till ic be broken: then take fiue ounces of the hot dlecoétion; and adde thereto two ounces ofthe bet white wine,andfo eiue it hotvnto the patient,being well couered with clothes, and then hewill feat throughly.This is likewife commended bylohannes Heurnews,in-his booke ofPraciife. 330 Millet parched, and fo puthot intoa linnen bag, andapplied; hel pes the griping paines of the belly, or anyother paine oceafioned by cold, nba done Chap. { a @ Thekindes, F Turkie cornes there be diuersforts, notwithftanding ofone ftocke or kindred, confifting of fundry coloured graines, wherein the difference is eafie to be difcerned, and for the better explanation ofthe fame, I hauefet forth to yourview certaine eares of different colours, in their fulland perfect ripeneffe, and fuch as they fhew themfelues to be whentheir skinne or filme doth openit felfe in the time of gathering, ‘The forme ofthe eares ofTurky Wheat. 3, Frumenti Indici (pica. Turkiewheatin the huske,as alfo nakedor bare. |