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Show CHared7- 1079 Theatrum Botanicum, Tripe y them lowing him fayitis Teffer,, 1 have alwayes found is fo little dif to bee rather larger then. leffer, yet there The Place and Time, give fometimesby the hedges in fields, and flower and Allthefe forts grow. upon hills and in the woods, and fruit in Inly, Awgujt and September, The Theater of Plants. Trise ti —_ The Names. ake of ference betweene them that butfor the namesf Candy L would make them both ;but one: kind without diverfitie ofpects. . 3» Cicer Orobaits, Cornered Orobus being the Cicer {o called by Dodonews, Lugdunenfis and others, The firkis the Cicer /ylveftre of Matthiolus,and Cicerfylucftre majus of the and , Dalechampiws of Cicerfylueftre firft fylueftre herbariorum ofLobel,andisalfo the Bauhinus Thalins his’ lealt kind : the fecond and third bee “Thalius as {aid before : the lefler of this kind is by any before : the fift is the Cicer fylvefire verins of Lobel, mentioned not out of his Brody omss 3 the fourthis by Lugdunenfis, , Divers would rather make this a Cicer thanan Orobus r and indeede Lobel and, Pena much, doubted whethe Cicers, al~ they fhouldcall it che firlt of Diofcorides his his Cicer though they were confident that it was Pliny that wasthe fweetelt'and likeft to Orobss.: but [rather themin thofe of the Garden, by how much they exceede obftructiThe wild Cicers are fo euch more powerfull then morebitter tafte, whereby they doe the more open heate and drynefle, perceived by their fharper and diffolving propertics of cutting, opening, digefting and P/iny. if they be too ons, provoke anine, breake the (tone,and all chofe other more ipeedily and more certainly : yet faith that are attributed co the former,and thar both wind, breed and torments ¢aule and largely takentheyJoolen the\belly It cods molt like to Orebus whofe defcriptionis thus. rifeth up with a crooked or leaning hollow ftalke halfe a yard high andfull of joynts fet with manyleaves on thelatt is the Cicer /ylveftre fecundum Dalechampy and called’by others (ier fylvcfire alver nm+ The Vertues. Cuarp. XVIL rer:but inco them J will adjoynethat{mall wild pulfe for the / offre,or Catanance, 1, Orobusvulgarn. The ordinary bitter Vetch, ; ridivers weake {lender branches leaning tothe ground,and {carfe This fenall pulfe fhooteth forth anda little winged leaves, each whereofis very little, fing npabout a foote high, befer onall fides with many hes and divers other Pulfes arc, the flowersare fmall longer then roundfet one again{t another as theCicers,Vetc by it felfe atthe joynts with the leaves, after onc and whitifh (tor I never faw any purple) ftanding fingly every of a point, bunched outin three or foure parts which come (mall round long pods no biggerthen the tagge roote is {malland. perifheth : the where the feede lyeth,whichis almoft full ound fmalland of a pale colour Creticus» The better Vetch of Candy. yexre. 2, Orobus whereas AZatrbiolws and others folThis Orobus in the manner ofgrowing is altogetherlike the former, but e z. Orobus wulgaris herbariorum. The ordinary bitter Vetch. tach fide of a middle ribhe which are fomewhat slong the like to thofé of the Lentill at the joynts toward t top come forth long foot(talkes with manyflowersfe and onthem clofe together which after give long where round cods,bunched outand dented in betweene little the feedes lye rwife as bigge as thofe of Orobssa colour-and differing little from them but in the darke three forts which fhall be declared in this ChapAlSte24SFthis Pulfe there are properlyin my judgement but names fake that is called Ervam /7l- every of the referre it othe kinds of Orebus from thé forme (hi cornered and not fo round, of a pale or yellowi orobus, Thebitter Vetch. Sy Cuarst7s 1079 4, Ervum|yluenre five Catanance, Wild glaffe leaftd Orebus. 3. Cicer Orobcume Cornered Orgbus, colour. 4. Eruum fylveftre five Catanance, Wilde graffe leafed Orabys. _ This wilde Pulfe hath a ftalke two foote high dividing it {elf into Jandry branches, efpecially if it grow in any. fertile foile, befet unorderly with many long and narrowdarke greene leaves {malicr then divers graffes acthe coppes of the ftalke and branches grow pretty large Peafe Bloffom'd flowers of an ofient fhining Crimfon colour, after which come fimall flender fong’ and almott round cods,. conteining within them divers hard blackifh feede : the roote islong andflender, with fome fibres. thereat,and perifhethevery yeare as I gheffe bythofe that grewin my Garden from the {ecde fow= en, whereof fome bore white flowers and then pe: rithed cowards Winter. The Placeand Time. d up in Gardens with us, the {econd being naturalof Candy: the third as Lobel The two Girlt are onely nourfe growing in the fields abourtbe hedges faith groweth wild in Narbone and Provincein France; the laft is ufually ofSummer. ng and feeding in the end andbufhes towards High- gate,P ancras Church, &c, and are all fowri The Names, in tur as Galen faith, in Lae This is called in Greeke 2e/2@ Orobus mes. vs tptarect iad W Pody,quod boves co faginen faith it was bur lately and Orobus alo the firftis called Orobms five Ervam by CMarthiolws (who tine Ervum Dodoweus calleth it Cicer fativumand Mo in his time made knownein Ita/y ) and by moft other writers, onely iorum, becaule it Orebus recepton herbar chies when as Mochus indeede is this Orobms butnot Cicer, Lobel calleth e any.truers the {econd is called the generall voteof thefe later timesdoth fo call it not having found or known the difcription Orobus Creticus by Matthiolus, as ifit differed from the former,but isnot fo as I have fhewedin obtufotriangulo, The by Bashiaw Orobus femine beforezthe third is called by Lobel Cicer Orohenm Theophrafti,8c Herball and Lagdunenfis : but Eryum fyluelaft is called Cataxance by Ge/ner in hortis, by Dodonens inhis French why Bavhinns {hould Lobel; but frre by Dodonensin his Latine Pemptudes and Eruvm fylveftre herbariorum by no clafpers as all the call it Larbyrus ylueftrss minor I fee no caufe. feeing it 1s not like any of the other nor hath ed to follow, namely to other Larhyrihe there expreffeth have, and befides breaketh that order he had propof aad yet this having none none, had that thofe fet downe all {uch P ulfes as had cla{pers in thefirft place,and then by the is put above among thofe that have, becaule he would vary the title ifhe could by any meanes Iris called rds Iervas, by the French rs. and wee in Arabians Erbum Keifene or Kerfene, by the Italians Eryo, bythe Spania for Pliny confounds this with Vicéa the Verch, and fromthe quality. of bic~ Englifh may call it the bitter Vetch, Lax ternefle which the ancients fay is in it, although ours have little that can be perceived : or Orobas after the tine if you will. The Vertues, _ Orobus is dry in the fecond degree and hotin the firft, andbythe bieterneffe cutteth clenfeth and openethobfiraétions, and was ufed in Galens timeas hee faith to be fteeped like Lupines (and that was to take out the bic:and great ncceffirie, n ternefle) before they were eaten by men or giverttotheir béafts, .andchatbuci. a dearth Wee ufe faith Galen the Orebecaufe they are not onely very unpleafantto thetalte but be of bad noarifhment. nver them, the.ma as a medicine to clenfe the breaft and Lungs of thicke humors that offend of one with Hony the ancients preparationof the meale thereof wasin this manner. + being fteeped in water a good. while theyafter * fryed or parched them untill the rindes broke which thenbeing ground and paffed through a boulter they keepe : them that this meale as of great ufe, both to move the belly downewards and to provoke urine, andro canfeand canfeth ufe it tobe of agood colour, yet if it betwo largely taken it cau(eth headach and paines in the belly, blooddy Zzzz2 |