Of Saint Peters Corne.

| 1 Briza Monococcos. Saint Peters Corne. | 2 Festuca Italica. Hauer Grasse. | |--------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|

The description.

1 Briza is somewhat like Wall Barly, whereof it is a kinde, but much lesser, of a browne reddish colour: a graine unpleasant to eate, and not used in phisicke. 2 This degenerate kinde of Barly called Festuca of Narbon, hath stalks beset with leaves, growing in spaces one distant from another even to the top; whereupon do growe certaine round bottles, after the fashion of a peare: on the crowne whereof sprouteth foorth many long haires tuft or tassell fashion, as is to be seene in Centaurea maior, but much longer. Matthiolus saith, that he by his owne triall, and his fathers experience, hath found this to be true. That as Lolium, which is our common Darnell, is certainly knowen to be a seede degenerate from wheate, being found for the most part among wheate, or where wheate hath beene: so is Festuca a seede or graine degenerating from Barly, and is found among Barly, or where Barly hath been.