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Show —————— =eo Theatrum Botanicum. CHAP.14. Trips 12. Cua, 18 1133 greatelt graine ofall the forts : the firft hath the whirelt, heavieft, and faith he, they have in Germany foure other graine, and hath fewer fmaller little bearetha fecond che + relt, and called by the country men of Ha/fis Andachi that ts, Winter- Barly : the third erfte, Winter-g s Germane the by called e rowes, and is a Semeftre, and is therefor that is Summer-Barly sthe , and therefore they callic Summer-gerft, is fownein the Sp ing, and isripe in Summer monethafter it is 2. Hordeum polyitichum, Square Barly. 1: Hordeum Difrichen. Beare Barly, or common Barly. s. The Theater of Plant Be 12. Tri NS ae it is early, and cut ripe inthe third fourth may properly be called, faith he 7rrmiftre, becaiife Saxons doe Titgerfre, that isa {mall Barly, oeone the as or te, Zeytger( and Gerften, Kleine call they this : fowne three dayesafter Pentecoft,Thus much Cordus, the Aras for the piefenc : they fow it either three dayés betoré, or French Orge, the Germans Garfien, Te <SZ_pe Ws were but degenerated from them, and partaki meate, drinke, and medecine, all the reft being ds it prioritie, as Barly may feeme tocontend with Wheate for yea ; them of qualities and natures ofthe fo or other life for bread now adayesin our Ewrepe, yet it was not well asufe, for although Wheate be the ftaffe of our Barly holdeth a furotherof thofe parts of the world now,where with the antient Athenians in the Levant, and e might be faid of it; & howfoever we ample difconrf thtrextent that W heatesout this place will not permit that 4 of it,that itnourifheth leffe than Wheate, becaufe itis acknowledge according,as the antients have recorded me drinke for our bodies,than what wholfo more maketh it it, in qualities ll medicina the drier graine, yet befides itup too much {tuffing the body with humours,andpuffing cant be made of Wheate alone,whichistoo (weete,and it unweldy and unfitto follow their neceflary affaires 5 with loofé (pungiousfat.and, ficth, making them that ue compofitionsthereof, except Maule, is more cooling: and bur hereof €noughforthis place. Barly in all the parts faith degree of cooling and drying: it proyoketh urine, than Wheate, anda litcle cleanfing, being in the firlt preparations thercof, as Barly wathe all but ; e ftomack the to adverfe 1s and le, Dioftorides, ic breedeth windinef thereof, doe give great nourifhment tomacilent and tér, or creame Ti/ane drinke, or thof other things made agucs, and heates in the ftomacke, &c. and many of or feavers with troubled or perfons, difeafed and HeGicke ment to the healthfull: the preparations, as they were them have beene, and {ill are received for good nourifh I meane to {peake hereafter feverally ; I onely meaneto anciently ufed, and thofe that are now inufe withus, Barly-meale or flower boyled with vinegar and hony, of made pultis A ued. thewyou hete how itis other wife mes, and affwageth inflammations being applied « Impoftu hard all rh diffolve them, to put and a fewdrie figges Linfeede, Fenugreeke, and Ruein powder, fome and rs; l-flowe Camomil and Melilot wich and being boiled e, and the windineffe of the {pleene ; the meale and applied warme,it eafeth the prines in the fides and ftomack into a pultis, with hony and oyle of Lillies, applied ofBarly and P/jdinm Flea-wort bolledin water made arid fuch like places: plaifter made thereof with Tarre, aie Sprit Barly notdiffering elfe ; ifthere bea Barly ‘that hath noailes or awnesfaith Lobel, and fo doe I, 1 knowit not gia! the Spaniards Cevada ; the bians eal it Xabaer, or Shair, the Italians Orzt, and we in Engh/p Barly. the Dutch Gerfte and Soverion; as Lobel faith; The Vertues. profitable and ufeful for manslife, both for Barly and Wheateare the prime graines of all others, and thé moft ng of the one 3. Hordeum polyftichumfive hyberanm. \Ninter Barly, or fquare Barly. ftalkes _ This kinde growethlike the former, both in ftalkes and eates, differing onely in not having fo many orfixe, rifing fromthe rootes, and'that the eares arefet with more rowes of cornes, in fomefotire, in fomefive warme, cureth tumors under the eares, throate, necke, called the Kings Evill:boyled with fharpe vinegar inWaxe, and Oyle, helpech the hard fwellings of the throate, in Red-wine with Pomegranate-rindes, and Mirboyled being : leprofie the helpeth hot, on laid toapultis, and Vinegar and a Quince, it eafeth the hor paines of with boyled : belly ofthe fixe other or laske thz ftaieth tills, mingled together, isuled by divers to take away.the the gout : Barly-flower, white Salt, Hony, and Vinegat Barly in the end of AZay, is very good for thofe itch {peedily and certainely :the water diftilled from the greene the paines being dropped into them, or white to eafe that have defluxions in the eyes, to {tay the humours, and {odden be given to Hennes, that hardly or feldome bread laid to ftcepe therein, and bound thereto if Barly halfe / often. lay Egges, it will caufe them to lay both greater and more times made of Barly,as whatis ufed to be made, Now I amcometo fhew you both whachath beenc in formerthofe preparations the ancients ufed, andthen of. thereofamong us in thefé dayes : firft I thinke it fit to {peake of thofe which weule, ! : oat and that it is fowne earlier than the former. 4. Hordeum hexaftichum vernum, Naked or bare Barly. : This other Barly that hath many rowes of ornes in theeare,differeth not from thelaft, but in thefe twoparti- calars, the cornes inclofed in the huskes, have not that skinne on them that the other hath, being lanke fimall: yellow, and fhort, almoft like Wheate,but leffe, and is fowne in April/ and not before, and is not feene or fowne by : any almoft in this land. The Placeand Time, : . Northparts onely ; the The firft is ourufuall Barley in all the South parts of this Kingdome ; the other in the we have had and fowne third is likewife reafonable freq rent in our Land ; but the laft,alchongh it be rare, yet kinde it in our Gardens, and was ripe in the beginning or middle of Auguft :we have not heard by any, that any : ot Barly hath beeae fowne before Winter in our Land, although Lobelfaith fo. ae nt Tie Name, & Cordus, Triscalled in Greeke zgi*n in Latine Hordenm:the firlt is generally fo called as it is in the title:7ragus Hordeum minus, and by Culamella Hordenm Galaticum, as thinke, or elfe the fmaller fort of this kinde, becaufe his it is whiter: the third Lobel faith is reafonable freqnentinthis Land, he meancth inthe Weft parts where London, Tragws calleth chiefe refidence was in his former dayes,foritis {carfe feene or knowne in the parts about Lobel Hordeum polyftichum vernum, it Hordenm maj. Cordus byemale ;and otherspolyftichwm; the lal is called by from & is moft likely to be rhat which Galen calleth Gymsnocrithon,that is Hordeum andum,by which name J hadit: wee a friend,and may be alto the Cantherinum of Colvmellawhich bee faith, the country men called hexaftichum havea {mall kinde of graine brought from Germany to our Drugilts in great quantitic, rermed French Barly, and having fixe rowes in theeares, is probableto be this Barly, which Cord frich, was firft fent chem out ofItaly, bueleffer. Cordus hath fet downe morefortshereof, which I thinke fit to fhew andnot muchunlike Wheate, t, youheresthe two forts of Barly Diftichomand Hexaftichon, this of fixe rowes,thatof twoin the eare,faithCordy maketh a recompence inthe iscommon:Withus,fol, 42.in Diofeord.yet that which hath but two rowesinthe care, and above roote by the greater numberofftalkes that rife from thence, for faich he, ¥ have pumbred fixtie ftalkes thirty, and fortic ftalkes ; but befides theferwo, rifing fromthe roote of one come, but ic ufually hath ewentie, faith Cuar, XV Of Polenta. in ) was antiently madé after divers manners, for Pliny Fea Olenta (which may well be called parched Barly ofgreenc Barly tawell as makeit to ufed s Grecian fome that fheweth , 3 his 18. Booke and 7. Chapter and after beaten ina Morter, and wafhed in *) ken out of the eare before it was ripe, fteeped in water, and afcerwards (teeeped and beaten againe, Sunne, Baskets to take away the huskes, then dried inthe unto twentie polind whereof howfoever made, untill it was throughly clenfed, and then dried and ground fmall, anda halfe, and about two ounces offalr, all being was put of Linfeede, and Coriander {eede, of each one poundof parched Barly, without any moiftening, ground it well bruifed,they mingled together, The Iralsans made (ome Millet feede alfo, Ocher Grectans faith Pliny, and {mall, and thofe things added thereunto afore(aid, parched or frycd it the next day, and then groundit. madeit of Barly moiftened for a night,and then dried it,and before it was throughly ripe,and the beardes or Galen cow mendeth that moft that was made of frefh Barly, elfe unto it Sundry Nationsdid nfe this Poawnesover-dry, and butindifferently parched, and addeth nothing h they had Wheate growing with them,yet moft lenta in (tead ofbread, and namely the Cypriots, who althoug being drunke withred wine, and allayeth ufed this. This driech more than Barly it felfe, and bindeth the belly, new wine,orfode a little inflammations ; and drunke with water it quencheth chirft : it was often eaten with den wine pait untoit as every onc liked, Citar, |
