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¶ The Description.
† 1 BRiza is a Corne whose leaues, stalkes, and eares are lesse than Spelt; the eare resem∣bles our ordinary Barley, the corne growing in two rowes, with awnes at the top, and huskes vpon it not easily to be gotten off. In colour it much resembles barley; yet Tragus saith it is of a blackish red colour.
2 This Aegilops in leaues and stalkes resembles wheat or barley, and it growes some two handfuls high, hauing a little eare or two at the top of the stalke, wherein are inclosed two or three seeds a little smaller than Barley, hauing each of them his awne at his end. These seeds are wrapped in a crested filme or skinne, out of which the awnes put themselues forth.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 saith, That he by his owne triall hath found this to be true, That as Lolium, which is our common Darnel, is certainly knowne to be a seed degenerate from wheat, being found for the most part among wheat, or where wheat hath been: so is Festuca a seed or grain degenerating from barley, and is found among Barley, or where barley hath beene.