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Show “060 Cware3 4. Pifum ontaneum maritimam Anzlicum Wilde Eng'ift Sea peale. Theatram Botanicum, Frise ti. Trips Guar.4. The Theater of Plants. $6 Pifwum aliad maritimom Britaxtenm, Another Fngiijh Sca Peale, 1061 CuaP. IIIT. Lathyrme, The great wilde Cicheling or Peafe cverlafting. the oné that cohtinué in their oa F this kind of Palfe called Carhyrus there are two {pecificall differences, perifheth not, the other annuall perifhing continually after feede time : manyof the li- y : roote,and ving forts I will intreat inthis Chapter, and of the annuallsinthe next. 1, Lathyrs major perennis. The greater Peafe everlalting. fidés which mult This kind of Peafe fendeth forth manylong flat trayling ftalkes, winged on both " Joynts which are fomewhat long and not be fultained, divided into fundry branches with two leaves at the likewife comeforth pretty long ftalkes yery broad,with fomeclafpers at the ends ofthe branches, atthe joynts colour, and of a. fine:{mell, after which red purplifh pale ofafine bloffomes, Peafe-like more with five or fix or {mall rourtd- blackith feede in them, thé roote groweth with cods, whitith hard and long {mall facceede e into the ground. This is that which Lobel calgreat,blacke and rugged onthe outfide and runneth downedeepplaces with us. divers leth Lathyrius latiorefolio,and hath beene found wildein ? 2, Lathyrus anguffifelin, Narrow leafed wild Cicheling: offlowers from the former, but in having fome?ia This differeth not in durability,forme of growing,or colourthen they.: are narrower whatpaler flowers and in the greene leaves which Dodonei. The wilde Cichéling of Dodenevs, 3. Lathyrys[ylueftria fhorterclafpers then thelaft, the flowers Thishath longer winged ftalkes and fomewhat larger leaves, but feeds within them s the roore are ofa deepe purple, and the cods are long and (lender, with fmall hard round is long and abideth. Peafe, Earth-nuts. 4. Lathyrus arvenfis five Terre glandes, upon the ground foure! orfive foote Thefe Earth-nuts have divers weake and {mall {quare ftalkes running clafper at the end of each, taking hold witha branch a upon together fet two ufually finall are leaves the long towards the toppes of the ftalkes apor of what ftandeth next to it : the flowers come forth from the joynts bright, purple, fomewhat long footeftalkes, many growing together being narrow, and of a deepe reddifh the ‘rootes are tuberous, the cods that ficceede them are {mall and long with fmall round feedesin them, e toa dry Chefblacke and fmall faftned to long ftrings,which fpread much under ground,in tafte fomewhatlik 4 nut, Basbinvs maketh it and the next to be both oneplant. . §. Lathyrus fylveftris lignofior, Our Wood Earth-nuts, almoft wooddy then the This creeping wilde Peafe-nut hath not onely greater, longer and harder rootes 1, Lathyrus wajor perennis. The greater Peale everlafting. The Place. ‘The firlt is often found in fandry places of this Land : the fecond on the chalkie hills at Kings Hay in Kewt, not farre from the Thames, and the larger fort hereof in fome barrenfields in E.'ffex:the third in Spaine : the fourth in Kent alfo neere Rumney : che lalt was firlt made knownein the yeare 1555. being the third yeare of QueeneMa77 to the Country dwelling thereabouts,that is betweene Orford & Alborough, where it grew upon the baich ofthe in neceffitic fea, where nothing, no not grafle was ever fegne to grow, and by the dearth ofthat yeare the people of foode,fearching every where to take what came next to hand ( for asit is faid many were forced acthattime to make their bread of Acornes)gathered many quarters fuull of thefe Peafe to ferve their ufe ; yet did the neighi- bouring people acknowledge that they had obferved and knowne them to grow there of Jong time before that make mention of thefe Peafe, deare yeare. Mr.Stow in his Cronicle,and Mr. Camdenin his Britanica, pag.354. burt both (tumbleat one {tone, that thefe might come thither by fome fhipwracke, which cannot befo : and Mr. a{peciall kinde differing Stow more efpecially in faying the rootes are great and {weete, for that it is /wi generis, frotn all other of that kinde ; and as itis probable naturall only to thofe places about the Sea fhoare, forit is found Mikes in' Lincholne {hire : alfo at Rie,at Pemfe in Su(fex,at Gilfordin Kent,over againtt the Cember,and at Ingolne Mr. John Argent Dr, of Phyficke,of the Colledgein London,brought from thence alfo the whole plant, fuch as you by - is hert figured, which he gaveto Dr. Lobel in his life time, tobe inferted in his Workes, but he prevented cath failing to performeit, Lhave by purchafing his Workes with my money here {upplied. The Time. Thef lower and beare their ftnit with the later kinde of Field Peafe;bur thelaft howereth in the end of Ia/7, oer both blowne flowers, andripe cods in the end of Augaft, and bloffomesalfo nothalfe forward to : The Name, ; Peafe ate called in Grecke afer, in Latiné Pifwm; the names in their titles are fufficient to diftinguifh them. or exceptthefirft, none of thefe have bene mentioned by any former Author : the Italians call them Pifedi ; the French De pois, the Germanes Erb(z, . The Vertues, , Peafe are leffe windy than Beanes, but paffe not forth of the body fo foone as they : if che wilde kinde be boy- led in Lyé, and the head wafhed therewith, it clenfeth it from fcurffe and {cabbes: the fame alfo clenfeth the skin of fpots : che meale of them, and Barley mixed with honey and ufed, healeth foule ulcers ; and the meale boiled in watet-with Vetches, breaketh tumours, and eafeth their paines being applied. Camerarins faith, that in Fran- conia, they call itDaringicht kraut, andufe ro take fome of the Peafe againft the collicke : and apply the hesbe outwardly and giveit their cattle alfo for the fame purpofe, that is, ifthey vent much, CuaP, 4. Laihyrus arvenfis five Terre glandet. Peale Barth-nuts. |