But that the Lily of the Valley, mention'd in the _Canticles_[SN: Cant. 2.], _I am the Rose of Sharon, and the Lily of the Valleys_, is that Vegetable which passeth under the same name with us, that is _Lilium convallium_, or the _May_ Lily, you will more hardly believe, who know with what insatisfaction the most learned Botanists reduce that Plant unto any described by the Ancients; that _Anguillara_ will have it to be the _Oenanthe_ of _Athenæus_, _Cordus_ the _Pothos_ of _Theophrastus_; and _Lobelius_ that the Greeks had not described it; who find not six Leaves in the Flower agreeably to all Lilies, but onely six small divisions in the Flower, who find it also to have a single, and no bulbous Root, nor Leaves shooting about the bottom, nor the Stalk round, but angular. And that the learned _Bauhinus_ hath not placed it in the Classis of Lilies, but nervifolious Plants. [Sidenote: _Fitches_, _Cummin_, &c. _in_ Isa. 28. 25] 18. _Doth he not cast abroad the Fitches, and scatter the Cummin Seed, and cast in the principal Wheat, and the appointed Barley, and the Rye in their place_: Herein though the sense may hold under the names assigned, yet is it not so easie to determine the particular Seeds and Grains, where the obscure original causeth such differing Translations. For in the Vulgar we meet with _Milium_ and Gith, which our Translation declineth, placing Fitches for Gith, and Rye for _Milium_ or Millet, which notwithstanding is retained by the Dutch. That it might be _Melanthium_, _Nigella_, or Gith, may be allowably apprehended, from the frequent use of the Seed thereof among the Jews and other Nations, as also from the Translation of _Tremellius_; and the Original implying a black Seed, which is less than Cummin, as, out of _Aben Ezra_, _Buxtorfius_ hath expounded it. But whereas _Milium_ or Κέγχρος of the Septuagint is by ours rendred Rye, there is little similitude or affinity between those Grains; For _Milium_ is more agreeable unto _Spelta_ or Espaut, as the Dutch and others still render it. That we meet so often with Cummin Seed in many parts of Scripture in reference unto _Judæa_, a Seed so abominable at present unto our Palates and Nostrils, will not seem strange unto any who consider the frequent use thereof among the Ancients, not onely in medical but dietetical use and practice: For their Dishes were filled therewith, and the noblest festival preparations in _Apicius_ were not without it: And even in the _Polenta_, and parched Corn, the old Diet of the Romans, (as _Pliny_ recordeth) unto every Measure they mixed a small proportion of Lin-seed and Cummin-seed.