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Show 1058 Cuar.3. Theatrum Botanicum. Tripeit, Fhe LheaterPlants. Triste II. which kind,as it is molt likely,is the Phafiolws or Pha/eolws Cordi, which he defcribeth in the43.folio of his An- bres s: thereat, ne th man h y final, fibre Jong,.wiis i Peafe. ee aleerum. The other wilde der and -fhorter leaves on them, butlike the fefi way od l na broa cheeto with , long e foor a e half e aare {carc i er “hiis other The ae aioe the Pea(e and cods, likewife noc differing in forme but much lefle,the roote abiding many felfe in one ofthefe two places, There hath come likewife unto us and others, both from Africa, Brafill, the Eaft wilde Peafe. yeares, Of this kindethere sagJo) creep Spanifh blackethe.{potted flowers are of a pale yellowifh thing toupliold ir, and Hot above a foote high, Whole trefoile leaves had fhorter foote{talkes, the flowers were white, and the frit eicher white, with a blacke {pot,or reddith or pale, orelfe of a fhining fwartith colour, notations upon Diofcorides, and in the 1 27, folio ofhis Hiftory of Plants, although he doth a little vary ffom him= and Weft Indies, Virginia, &c, Sundry other forts and varieties which were endleffe torecite, or at lealtufe- leffe,but onely to behold and contemplate the wonderfull workes of the Creatorin thofe his creatures ; Zobe/alfo maketh mention in the 395. page of his Adverfatia of many rare varietics of thefe kindes of Beanesthat the LadyKillegrew fhewed him,which were taken up, and yearely gathered on the fea coats of Cornwall, whereit is not knownethat ever any fhippe was wracked, butt as it is thought were driven thither by the windes from the coalts of America ; for the inhabitants thereabouts doe yearely gather new forts; fomefloating on the Waters, others raked from under the fandes-of the fhoare, . The Place and Time, former, and mor 2 . ‘ t hat larger. Gr g Fey” ines like the firft, but thatit is leffer, and : This a an Gaingof adarkec olour, {potted with very blacke {pots like velvet : the roote perifheth ereene colours every yeate i 40 Pifum [poxtancim maritimnm Anglicum, NildcEnglifh fea Peale, i a muchfrom the fecondfort of wilde Peafe, but is {omewhat greater, and bearing Bhssr roasteriba ct mixtof purple and afhcolour; the fucceeding huskesare {mall and long, the marly flowers roott is living. : > - dmearitimum Britanicum, Suffolke Sea Peafe, 4 , The firlt here deferibed grew in the Weft Indies, and firft grew with Mr. Trade/cant, yearely flowringin the ufuall Seafon, and giving ripe fruit: the fecond here defcribed came from the A4agols countri¢ inthe Eaft Indies, and onely{prang up with us, bat continued not. 7s £S oa rie ce nia forme hi of joynts, bending to the ground, with eee This kinde o' Sea feanched forth in divers places with wingedleaves at them, confifting of tenne or twelve much not being leafe cach end, the at Jeaves at every joys “ couples ona middle ribbe, with a fmall clafper The Names. Diofcorides calletttthis suina® xnnett Smilax hortenfis quod Smilacis mode confcendst ; Theophrastus and others unlike unto the Sea Ee *falke, which both for forme and colour are very like tothe wilde Peafe, but with Anryd-,or as fome write it Aoxxte, Dolichits, ot Dolicus, which many Latine Authours follow : fome alfoaotes and abGey propter filiquarum longitudinem, Some alfo take it tobe Diofcorides his gacrads, or as Galen writeth it gzonondswhercot there hath been€ much: controverfie among former Writers, as Aatthiolus againlt (Manardus, that thought the / hafirlus of Diofcorides to be Erviliaand the Smilax bortenfis tobe the ordinary Phajrolus,as it is nowadayes fo called, which opinion, how foever Matthiolys contradi@éth, and would force his owne, which was Cordus his alfo tor che truelt;that the ordinary white Kidney Beanes were the Phafioli of Diofcorides, (which can no wayes {tand with re fon, feeing Dio/corides {erreth his Phaftolws among thofe Pulfes that grow wilde, and befides faith, that they are hard of digeftion, and move vomiting, which is not proper to thefe kindes, butto many wilde forts of Pulfes, and in the Chapter of Spartinmfrutex, compareth the feedes thereof to thofe of Pha- frolw, and that his Smilax bortenfis was the other difcolored forts of Kidney Beanes, but they are as well for forme as in effe@tin my judgement the fame. Another doubt there is with fome, whether Theophrafius his Dom lichus and Dioftorides his Smilaxbortenfis be but one or divers ; but Galen in primo aliemetornm hath decided that long agoe, wherehe faith, that becaufe Theophraftus faith his Dolichus needeth long poles or ftakes to uphold it that it mayprofper,he furelydelineateth thefe Phafiols, or Dio(corides his Smilax hortenfis : {0 that you {ee itis without donbt that Smilax hortenfis, Dolichus, and our ordinary Pba/feo/ws tobe all one : e#£tim alfo in his firft Booke {faith the fame, for affuiredly Diafeorides his Phafoluis the fame with Galex his Phafelus, which in the fame Booke he joyneth with Ochras {peaking of Phafeolws afterwards, and Lebel taketh it to be that Pulfe, which is called by Lugdunenfis Phaftolus fyluarum, and by Clufiws Orobws Pannonicus : Cordusin the places before mentioned maketh Phafelus and Pbafiolus tobe butone kindeof plant, and differing from Phafeolus, which mounteth upon poles, the Phafelus saad; : Virgil and Columella doeboth make mention of Pha/elzs as of a {mall and vile Pulfe s Virgil in Georg. fecundo, in thefe words, Sew pinguem Viciam feres, vilemue Phafelum. Dodonaus maketh our ordinary garden Beane to be Phafelus major, and the wilde kinde to be Phafelus minor, and faith without d subthey are the right: but by his leave they are not right, wherein I referre me to others judgement, confidering what I have here before written, and efpecially in that the Lentill-like {eedes of Spartinmfratex, are by Diofcorides compared to thofe ofPhafiolws, when as the lefler Llacke Beanes are farre bigger than any Spans/b broomefeede, or the pods comparable, The Vertues, The Kidney Beanesthat are nuried up withusof all forts, and come to maturity, being of eafie digeflion, and hot and moift in the firlt degree, doe move the belly, provoke urine, enlarge the breaft thatis {treightened with thortneffe of breath, engender {perme,incice venery, e(pecially if Sugar, Pepper, Genger and Galanga be added thereto + for theyare well knowne to moftt. be a familiar difh of ‘meate taken while they are young, boyled, and ftewed,or fried, & {ome Verjuice put tothem,and {pice ftrewed thereon: AZarthiolus faith, thatif the greene pods be chewedin ones mouth, end appliedto any place thatis bitten by amhorfe it will helpe : he alfo fheweth thatthe Italian dames made a water or fucwsfor their faces of the pods and feedes of thefe Beanes, with a freth gourd, crummesof bread,. and Goates milke, &c, diftilled. The fith called Scarws ( which is fomewhat likea Barbell) as Bellonizs doth fet it downein the eight Chapterof his firft Booke of Obfervationsis much delighted to feede uponthe leaves of this Phafeolus or French-Beanes,and that therefore the Greekes ofCandy that dwell neare Ailopetamo and Cigaliaas, where this fifh doth abundantly breede betweene the rockes, doeufe to pat the leaves of this Beane into their Weeles, or Bow-nets, as a baite for this fifh, knowing that they can hardly betaken by line or hooke but onely with this herbe, and therefore in their Language they call it Scarovotamo. Crap. IIT Pifum. Peafe, F ailthe forts of Garden Peafe, Ihave fpoken fufficiently in my former Booke, there remaineth now that I fhould fhew you here the wilde kindes which are thefe. 1. Pifum[ylveftre primum. Thefirlt wilde Peate. This wilde Peafe doth little differ from the manured, either in ramping cornered ftalkes, or in the broaattitte greene leaves, two alwayes being fetat a joynt, and fixe or more leffer oneson the branches, which end in a clafper, the flowers are white, many ftanding on a foote flalke together, which turne into fo manycods, each much fmaller thanthe manured, and the feede within,farre leffealfo, and of no pleafant talle ; the rooteis as darke greene leaves, we ee oe flowers grow towardsthe toppes of thebranches, eight or tennefet togerber ina clufter,upon a ieerhen iia full blowen, the fruit that followethisleffer than the commonfield Peafes a whitene ffein the mi A Pea(c inf cod,enel whereof hath the whitenefle called the eye,compaffing halfe the containing eight de, which being ripe anddric, are ofa darkith colour: the roote runneth downe inPeafe like a femicirc 4 round, and {preadinginfinitely therein, even two. fathome deepe, at the Jeaft, within creedible deepe iba ofthe Sea (yerabout a yard or more deepe, there is found fome {and whereinit {prea the very {tones an — flender pliant and flexible, not {weete, butbitter as the wholeplants, and the Peafe al doth)andis not oe aoe yeare,and from the old head will fhoote manylong white tendrells like the roore fo: theold pee ie ee it encreafeth wonderfully, and not by the feede, as 1am perfwaded, for Pe of the{mall Banc growth falling thereon, in not having any nourifhment or. moiftureof fand, a ae the peeF ‘ese ‘aa foots deep, and the birds for the molt part devoure them up. I have alfo put fomeof the one digg' en, but none would {pring. Peafe into the ground of my Gard x. Pifam fylveftre. primum. The firft wilds Peale. 3 . Pifim fyluefrenigram Beticum maculatum. * os Spanifh blacke {patted wilde Peafe. |
