Holcus Sorghum, the common grain of Africa and Arabia: the Somali call it Hirad; the people of Yemen, Taam.
Bread made of holcus grain dried and broken into bits; it is thrown into broth or hot water, and thus readily supplies the traveller with a wholesome panade.
After some desultory conversation the Shaykh ushered us into an inner room, or rather a dark closet partitioned off from the study, and ranged us around the usual dish of boiled beef, holcus bread, and red pepper.
Yellow crops of holcus rewarded the peasant's toil: in some places the long stems tied in bunches below the ears as piled muskets, stood ready for the reaper; in others, the barer ground showed that the task was done.
They receive for pay one dollar's worth of holcus per annum, a quantity sufficient to afford five or six loaves a day: the luxuries of life must be provided by the exercise of some peaceful craft.
Had the yellow crops of Holcus been wheat, I might have fancied myself once more riding in the pleasant neighbourhood of Tuscan Sienna.
Holcus spicatus, the Panicum spicatum of Roxburgh, is cultivated in Mysore, Behar, and the provinces more to the north.
Sorghum avenaceum, or Holcus avenaceus, is a native of the Cape.
The chuya, from the description given, would seem to be the Holcus sorghum, although the coldness of the situation renders this doubtful.
The Muccai and Muruli of the Parbatiyas are both by the Newars called Kaunguni, and are varieties of the Holcus sorghum.
Durrah"=the Holcus Sativus before noticed, an African as well as Asiatic growth, now being supplanted by maize and rice.
My men could never cease admiring its capability for raising their corn ('Holcus sorghum'), and despising the comparatively limited cultivation of the inhabitants.
A root yielding a grateful bitter was used in lieu of hops, the name of which I have forgotten; but the corn which yields the wort is the holcus spicatus of botanists.
Much dura or Holcus sorghum is cultivated on the rich alluvial soil on its banks by the Guha people.
It is the same which, from the depending position of the ear, is called by botanical writers holcus cernuus.
Indian grain called in the country Joharre, which appears to be a species of Holcus or Milium, is the appropriate food of another species of Calandra[278], which I found abundant in it.
It lays its eggs on various grasses, particularly the meadow soft-grass (Holcus lanatus).
Holcus sorghum is sold at Venice for brooms, as we are told by Ray in his Hist.
Linnæus in his last writings has separated Holcus bicolor from sorghum.
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