Of Millet.

| 1 Milium. Mill or Millet. | 2 Milium nigrum. Blacke Millet. | |-----------------------------|-----------------------------------| * The defcription. Milium rifeth vp with many hairie ftalkes, knotted, or iointed like wheate. The leaues are long, and like the leaues of the common reed. It bringeth foorth on the top of the ftalke, a fpokie bufh or mane, called in Greeke $\text{φόβη}$, like the plume or feather of the pole reede hanging downewards, of colour for the moft part yellow, now and then blackifh, in which groweth the feed, fmall, hard, and gliftring, couered with a few thin huskes, out of which it eafily falleth. The rootes be many, and grow deepe in the ground. 2 Milium nigrum is like vnto the former, sauing that the eare or plume of this plant is more loose and thin, and the seed somewhat bigger, of a shining blacke colour.

The place.

It loueth light and loose mowld, and prospereth best in a moist and rainie time. And after Columella, it groweth in greatest abundance in Campania. I haue of it yeerely in my garden.

The time.

It is to be sowen in Aprill and May and not before, for it ioyeth in warme weather.

The names.

It is named of the Grecians κέγχρος: of some μελινός: & of Hippocrates Paspale, as Hermolaus saith: in Spanish Mijo: in Italian Miglio: in high Dutch Hirz: in French Millet: in low Dutch Hirs: in English Mill and Millet.

The temperature.

It is cold in the first degree as Galen writeth, and drie in the third, or in the later ende of the second, and is of a thin substance.

The vertues.

The meale of Mill mixed with tar, is laid to the bitings of serpents and all venemous beasts. There is a drinke made hereof bearing the name of sirupus Ambrosii, or Ambrose his syrupe, which procureth sweate, and quencheth thirst, vsed in the citie of Milan in tertian agues. The receit whereof Henricus Rantzovius in his booke of the gouernment of health setteth downe in this maner: Take faith he, of vnhusked Mill a sufficient quantitie, boile it till it be broken: then take fiue ounces of the hot decoction, and adde there to two ounces of the best white wine, and so giue it hot vnto the patient being well couered with clothes, and then will he sweate throughly. This is likewise commended by Ioannes Heurneus in his booke of practise.