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Show 118_Bopancen. head ofevery one of them which being hulled is very white,of the bignefle almoft of Wheate cornes, blunt at both ends, Theater ofPlants The a Tribe 12, Trive 12, ue —————————sritiamvulgare album vel nigram. Common Millet with white feede or blacke. Origa. Rice, Cua far PS ree ———— 3 Melica five Sorghum. Indian Millet. : ; The Place and Time. Sy yee The oricinall fourfeheteof came’ ont of the Balt Indies; whereit fs their chiefeftifniot onely Corne ah live upon,and not with thei onély bit through all Ethiopia and Africa and from thence hath beene brought inte Syria, Egypt,Inaly,c+c. whereloever it's feene to bee fowen, and loverh onely.to growin’ moift grounds, or’ {ich ag may bé overflowen in the Summertime,and the waters let ont agdine, Geirig but a Summer Core, ‘and is'yearely fowen and gatheredinthe middle or-end of ‘Autumnc with us,but cwilea yeatéin divers ‘places of the Eaft In- dies, whole goodriefle'thietely "confifteth in the largeneffeand Whirenefie, which the‘horter countries onely produce. The Names. Tris ca}fed'in Greeke O'¢22, and fo in Latine Ory<a' by allaathors, yet {ome doe callit /ralioa for adifference tothe Orjza Germanica, (which Cordm ‘on Diofcorides faith is called Schwaden with them, ‘or being a kinde thereofat the leaft, althonghlefler, haying the fame talte andufe, and theéfaime proportion in ftalkes, leaves, and (pikes; with’a juba like Ailiam, growing alfo’ in matifh and plafhy places as Rice doth) yet Hermolaus, Ruellius ond some othet have thought it to bee the Hordeum Galaticum of Columella, but I have thewed you what that is inthe Chapter of Barly : why Galen fhould account Rice inter legumina potiws quam inter cerealia, “as he did before of Oates,and of Panick afterwards, many doe wonder, feeing their formes are fo different,but himfelfe I thinke rendereth the reafon, becaufe ic was not made into bread ys the reft of the other Cornes are The Arabianscall it Arzand Arzi, the Italians Rizo, the : Spaniarlls Arrox, the French Rys, the Germanes Reiff, the Dutch Rys,and we Rice, The Vertnes. Rice is chiefely ufed medecinally to flay the Laskes or fluxes of the ftomacké as wellas of the belly, efpecially if it bea little parched before it be ufed, and Steele quenched in the milke wherein it fhall be boyled, being fomewhat binding and drying:it is thought alfo to encreafe feed, being boyled in milke and fome Sugar and Cinamon put thereunto : the flower of Rice is of the fame propertic,andis fometimes alfo’ put into cataplafmes that are ap~ to womens breafts to plied to repell humorsfrom flowing orfalling to the place, and is alfo conveniently applyed {tay inflanimations when they begin. ' I, Cuar. XXII ilium. ¥ 1. Milium vulgare album. Commonwhite Millet. litele This Millet groweth with manyhard joynted tall ftalkes full ofa white Pich,yet foft anda one anohairy-or downy on the ourfide, with long and large Reede-like leaves at them compaffing bowing ther, the topes of the ftalkes are futnifhed witha number of whitith yellow long {prigges like feathers, are of a downe their heads, fet allalong with {mall (eede inclofed in a whitifh huske, whichbeing taken forth fhiningpale yellowi(h or whitith colour, fomewhat hard little bigger then. the feede of Fleawort: the roote bufheth much in the ground but perifheth yearely, 2. Malium } nigrum. fe Blacke Millet ; : oe ~ ’ a This other Miller difterethlittle from the former, being fomewharleffe withus, faving that as the juba ot tuft is brownih, fois the feede alfo blackith andfhining, very like elfe to the other. ‘ “Melica five Sorghum, Indian Millet. a | eae This Millet is in all the parts thereof larger,greater and higher then the former,rifing to be five orfix foot high or more,theftalkes are ful! of joynts and large long leaves at them, the juba ortuft ftandeth upright and boweth not ° 4 lo ae whit {cede asbig but not flatas Lentills fomewhat round, and eyther the * 7 other, . whereonftand . co whit toeatincgtencpeeiyesithh a ee ae on ehee bpiivom maaet the'lalt forts long before Millet, of allthe forts came firlt into Earope ont of the Baftérne countries, the two firft Kinde, andthe fortes of it, and require a {trong ground well watered, for they foone empoverith a ground if it be notftill enriched, nor will it profper in leane drie foile ; it is to'be fowne ine4pril, and the graine in the hote ter climates will be ripe in Anguft or September, Th g The Names: ee e «atvion ait Fests ,Galencalleth it Pafpaless a) ‘ 2 Aatthio/us and others, and Sarafenicum te FragwPanicatoDit oridis and Plinty , Bellonius s, by 1 T by Lobel, Ge[ner calleth it PanicumIr we iit Pee ae they the whereof doe,zodi as t he oc Arabians Cilicia theycall it Harcomen Me a Cong Portugalls winds finding aiiloand it in bes Ah cae Ce ae fewell, ir Gre in wantof other Gia and rs Gegue Hirf«, the Dutch Hirs, and wee is EnglMillet ; and the laft it call ns ns Arabia Ome ithe e iee n ome jItaliain Millet. hd ah ) or Indiaz ie ‘: Millet. i 8 All Key in Greeke,is called (Milinm in Latine, cone ee yon to be Panicum, 3 but neers st bi k wand white : the lattis called (Milinm dor rs Palpale, Varro thinketh it is V aeiNors cali the twO'firlt forts A4i/inm with their egy 7 i alicad b Dodonaus, Sorghum alto, and . bre F Millet there are divers forts, {omefamiliarly growing in Europe others broughtoutof the more remote countries, as fhall be declared. ’ ’ | is oS | e tenuitie of parts: third almoft,and hath w ithall alittl in the her willever ta {tandabide : it is fometimes mace Sree ftdegree } drveth e, but dryeth up moilt eby it nourifheth cbekept from wind ite ey i ‘atthiolus faith that at y» tle CEE ae ph geld Siete a antd Toke ti inte b of the {weerenefle, but being old , yet isit much ufedin Germary SOhes hile itis hot, byreafon 0 and provokerh urine : belly the bindeth Diostorides an Verona the bread thereof is eaten W1t) preap de tw 1s, or.as Wecker hath ir Syrupus Ambrefy, taken warme with pons i utterly unp cata ete itis b ae I gees - covered in bed, and is effectual co coole hot Fevers and made thereof called 0x th oe reett Bertier » paines of the Collicke and ofthe fides if ¢ Wine procurethfwe Eeaea in Iedyandotherpiace? they give the graine to their irft : being putinto ‘ b i 7 0 help thata are i are goodnd to to helpethofe fai AZatthiolms Th odian adMil et Qalkesces taith aires alfo im toe a spe oasis aded :Take the pith out of ten of the joynts of i rt 2 i a vith trou of this Milict, ikes t graines of Pepper,an val taacake, { ee 5 red wine to the weight : is po ad Yh anew red {ponge, takethe powder of them with twelve Fan hearePafte or Dowe, all which being made up with a new laid Egge incen yal detent scakebeing dividedinto fix parte, let the patient take one part of ae es . “ak aaeunthey goc to bed, and not drinke after it that night: thi fagett son ; rae cured : the red flowers y faith he hath knowne many to be eT! ey 1€s.and he ne alfo -it of adram cureth women of the reds, as the white flowers doth the w hites goodfor all fluxes of the belly. 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