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Show 1070 Trise il, Theatrum Botanicum. Cuapr.i2z. at both ends, or alittle hooked atthe lower end, ofa {ullen whitifh colour on theoutfide, {triped, andasit were wrinckled,bunching out intotwoparts,wherethe two nuts (for they are bigger than any Filberd kernell } 1. 3. -Arachidna Cretica Honorij Belli: Sub terra fili= yy. ahd Eaters, SAAe tenaar nace Br nok med© ae Dns Pa : or Peafe doe‘lie joyning clofe one unto another, being fomewhatlong, with the roundnefic firme and folide, As = 2M Hs of Sy > \ ME mer, as the fecond did that was fentus from Lisbone by“F A Beolivs, and the laft groweth in moft places of America, maine and Ilands. Arachus Tadicus fue Afritanns, Corall beads of Gsiney. CAD within talting {weetlikea Nuc,but moreoily, as well tothe South, as Welt parts thereof, both on the 107% ‘ Y a) YH and of a darke reddifh colour ontheont fide, and white The Place and Time, The firft wasfent out of Candy by Honorius Bellus, whofound it growing there among corne & Pulfé,unto Toannes Pona of Verona, who fetit forth in the defcription of (Mount Baldus,and flowred in the end of Sum- 3. le Arashus jew €racca majorThe grearer wilde Verch or Tare. a, Cwuar.13, The Theater of Plants. Taipei. SY9) The Names. The firt is truely taken by Bellys, aforefaid, tobe the Arachidna (or eArachydna as Columnahath it) or 7 deseo sui@-, Aracoides, or Araco fimilis of Theopbra. y aC by <7» iv ZB Fy any y a u (ftw mentioned in his firlt Booke and eleaventh Chapter,no other plant yet knowne, agreeing fo rightly thereunto, and deferibethit, but the frait groweth as \ A I] S much neere under the ground joyning to the {mall fibres thereof as above : and yethe therefaithalfo, thar neither of thzm beare any leafe, nor any thing like leaves : which how this can ftand with fence and reafon } know not, and therefore many doe fafpe@ the W” textto be faultie, or el{e he is contrary to himfelfe, for he faith they beare no leffe fruit under ground thana- bave, and then chey mult beare fruit above ground, which howit can be without leaves I feenot, for I ne= yyy ver read, heard, or faw, thatany plantbore fruit above .*, ground without ftalkes and leaves ; the comparifon uns“ EX PF Y (e TH Y to Aracus alfo catrying the more probabilicie : but turely he was mifinformed by thofe that gathered the rootes with the fruit on them whenthe ftalkes andleaves were withered and gone, he never feeing the plant, as icis likely, or gathering it him(elfe : che etimologie alfo of the name being compofed of A’e%x@and éSs0y, Aracus and budnon, which istuber, confirmeth a fuppofall in me, that he meantthis undergroundfroit was like the fruit ofthe foregoing Aracus above ground, and {uchlikeis the un- der ground fruit hereofin cods with peafe in them: but Colamna maketh the Terre glandes before declared to be ratherthis Arachydna,both from the folid rootes under ground,andthe likeneffe of the plantunto Aracis + and furely it may be that both thefe were meant by Theophraftus, for he maketh two forts, and both alike in bearing fruitunder gound, that is, Arachidna and Aracofimilis, or Aracoides : and we have alfo two plants, as I here thew you, dracus before this, and Arachws after it,unto which they may be referred: the other two forts arc entituled as I chinke it fittelt for them : the Candiots, as Bellus faith,call the firlt ¢yet9¢m, Agriopbaci ; the fecond was fent me by the name of Lathyrus (ub terra filiquifera ; the la{t is generallycalled by our Englifs Séa-men that goe into thofe parts Earth-nuts, erronionfly cnough, as they doe moft other things that they there meete with, The Names, and hath his name ace This is tightly adjudged tobe zeves Arachus of Galen and the other old Grecian writers, unde deges ; Thetwo cording to his nature,for as Lebel defineth it as e4s quafi peftes pernicie(que leguminofe fragisVicia major and minor, over to thé end of thefe are referred to the other forts of Fetches and therefore I {hall put you & F thefe wilde Vetche there isa greater anda leffer knownediffering from the manured kinde,orthofe r The properties and the fame thing, onely thisis a of the next Chapter tobe informed thereof to avoyd adonblerecitall of one they be wild,yet where the certaine knownePulfe to Doves wherewith they are much delighted, and although fome copnDove houfes are ferved herewith they alfo will refort and become tame with the reft,and therefore trey people knowing it fow fome fields therewith to ferve tothat ufe, {i is Arachus five Craccamajor, The greater wilde Vetch or Tare. hs qrhctecns e a in of wilde Verch hatha fewflender crefted ftalkes lying on the ground, if it finde nofidesof a middle sibb rch or take hold of; at the joynts come forth wingedleaves, that is, many fer onboth puPplc tiie die Vee Woe ingina clafper, but leffer than thofe of Lentills, or the manured Vetch ; the flowersare Gentisas and at ra growufually but one at a joynt, after which come {mall long blacke cods, leffer than ‘itheth: after, the and choke the Corne or anyother herbe it growethby, they flowerin I#/y and giveth feede prefently other came out of Africa towards the Indies, Vicia Africana,and Lobel Pifum Coccineim Americum, The Vertues, Arachus fiveCracca. Wild Vetches or Tares. referred thereunto, whereunto I adjoyne another {tranger, red cods, and fruit, ten of twelve growing together in thicke,fhort and rough brownifh blacke fpot on theonefide as hard roundih and as red (hining as if they were polifhed Corall beads, but witha before C/afies fer out this plant 5 almolt asa’ {tone,and enduring being ftrong for braceletsa long time. Lobel long whofe pod with the fecde being miffet is in the next Chapter: J 3 The Placeand Time. over{pread Both thefe fortsare often foundin the fields among Corne, where they willin 4 rainy time quickly the efpeciall note Greekes call 2ed4s Arachis, and contefteth againtt Fuchfivs and others that called it Cracca andall other forts of Fetches faith he of difference fromthe otherforts ofVicia is that this {cede is exquifite round by the name of Chapter 15. and fomewhatfiat : the lalt is mentioned by C/ufiasinhis fourth booke of Exoticks Cuar. XII. 48 This creator j who ¢alléth them firft are generallycalled byallauthors 4racws or Cracca except Tragus Carne which the ot guarta and quinta, and Dodoneus that thinketh it maybe that kind of Pulfe growing among ; nay The Vertues, There is no propértie found out wherewith this is invefted that we can underftand of as yer. : 3. Arachus Indicyy five Africanus, Corall beades of Guineye of leaves and flowers "This brave plant too tender for our climate groweth like the former but with more {torsthe Peafe within being € feede within them, bucround, and notflat as Vetches are : the roote is {mall and pe- ) 5 2 Arachysfive Cracca minor. The leffer wilde Vetch or Tare. eee ae Vetchdirest inno other thing from the formerbut in fmalneffe, except that this hath whiae ‘ee rae of a the toppesof the {talkes,and the cods that follow are fhorter and fomewhiat hairy ’ within whitith : the roote hereof hath {mall whitith kernells hanging among the fibres. 3 Arachus Cuar. XIII: Vicia, ‘Verches or Taree: @Bue Verchés are of divers forts.tome manured or fowen,othérs wild growingin woods ot hedges be- p F fides thofe before {pecified which fhall be declared in this Chapter, : 3 1. Vicia vulgarisfativa, The manured Vetch or Tare, footé high, entangThe manured Verch or Tare hata divers {quareftalkes rifing fomettmestwo ling themfelves one with another that they ftand in the field without neede ofany other Props,tis |