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Of all the cereals the first that is sown is barley. We shall state the appropriate time for sowing each kind when we come to treat of the nature of each individually. In India, there is
both a cultivated and a wild [Note] barley, from which they make excellent bread, as well as alica. [Note] But the most favourite food of all there is rice, [Note] from which they prepare a ptisan [Note] similar to that made from barley in other parts of the world. The leaves of rice are fleshy, [Note] very like those of the leek, but broader; the stem is a cubit in height, the blossom purple, and the root globular, like a pearl in shape. [Note]
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