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Show 1088 Theatrum Botanicum, CuaP.10, lly the {maller fort,which fome countriesin out land,efpecia acceptable, butthe. isevery where, the more pleafant and tie with us, if the greater doth very hardly come to maturi wilde in Portugal, feafon benotkindly and drie: the laftis The Names. es Trips ul, Lens major vel naiuor, The greater or leffer. Lentill., e paxis and gaxh, Phacos, and in Latine itis called in Greek .cap.t2. that the €¢yLensand Lenticala, Pliny faith, i6-18 lenis dita fit, leni= mon thereof feemethto be taken, quaft tem fiers vefcan= ratifq; Jigvificationem babeat, & aqnanimita the Italians Lenticchia, tibus ea, The Arabians callit Hades, e, the Germanes the Spaniards Lenteias, the French Lentill and wee in EnghfhLenalfo, Dztch e doeth {0 and , Linfen coun= and other tills, but the coumery people in Hampfhire, their cattles tries, where -they, fow it in their fields “asforthinking’ that foode, call it Tills, leaving out the Lent, ervam, word agrecth not with che matter, Irafus'Alin ~The Vertues, Galep faith, that Lentills hold-a meane betweene heate , the outer and ¢gld> yer doe rhey drie in the fecond degree alfo, yeta little skinne bemg binding, and the inner meate skinne much harfh and bindeth the body, but the outer for the decomore s/it is, faith-he, of contrary qualities, body,and thereGion thereof doth not binde,but loofen the the de, caft- away foré they that would have it to-bin fe the fecond, which ftaieth laskes, arid fir water, and d parts, firéngtheneth the ftomacke and| all the inwar che hells, Lentills’ husked; faith hee, lofe witb their ies that follow ity Rrength of binding; and the other qualit d, huske and then nourifh moré than thofe that are not flowly yet fo gvierhey athicke and evillnourifhment, and s as terie difen pafle away, neither doe they. ftay fluxes and hé thofe thatare not husked. Gales further ferteth fortht of Lentills; qualistés heteof :largely-to cate the broth for grofie faith te, breedeth’ the Leprefieand cankers, r, thicke meate, is ft to breede the gnelancholike humouofa are and therefore itis proftabl) giventd thofe that utbutis y : waterie difpofition;and évill affected thereb } s itis terly forbidden tothofe that have dry conftitution : rejand is not convenient for women that wane their alfo burtfull to the fight dulling it by drying up the moiltu abundance, Diofcorides further addeth, it breedeth much conrfes, but racher for themthat have them in too and the finewes : with other binding herbes, as Purtroublefome dreames, andis harrfull to the head,the lungs,,Medlers, Services, &c, taken with vinegar, it isthe ranat rindes flaine, red Beetes, Mirtles, dried Rofes, Pomeg ion thereof with wheateflower applied eafeth the more powerfull ro-binde and ftay laskes and fluxes : the decoét eth foule fores : being boyled in vinegar it gout, ufed with honyit clofeth up the lippes of woundes, and cleanf ot; and alitele Rofewater put thereto, it Mellil es, Quinf with boiled being and ls ; kernel and knots diffolveth for the chappes thereof which needea ftronger medihelpeth the inflammations ofthe eyes and fundament, but , adding little hony to it: iclikewife ftaieth thofe cine, it is boiled with dried Rofes and Pomegranate rindes g thereto fome fea-water, and foit is good for creeping canker's that are readyto turne toa gangreene, puttin kibes, &c.being ufed with vinegar :'it is good alfofor wheales, and running or watering fores, S. Anthionies fire, d within them, fit be boyled in fea-waterand applied womens breafts, thatby abundance of milke haveit crudle or fundament, adding ulcers, either in the mouth, privie parts, to them sthe decoction thereof is a good lotion for afew Rofe-leaves and Quinfes. Cuar. X Aracusfive Cicera, Wilde Cichling Peafe. ation, better agreeing with this title, in my Have two forts of Pulfes to bring to your confider and knowledge judge of them. 3) judgement thananyother, ler them of better learning Cichcling Peafe, 1. Aracs major Baticus, The grearer Spanif> wilde hairy, and crefted ftalkes, fome; {qnare This greater Peafe fpreadeth on the ground, with divers darke greene hairy pointed many grow , times a yard long or more, atthe feverall joynts whereof , at the foote na clafper li ¢ the former Lentills or Vetches leaves, on eachfide of a middle ribbe, which endethi of a duskie whitith purple colour, with ofthe leaves come forth fingle flowers on very fhort foote Aalkes, which ftalkes, e of the uppetleaves next to the deeper purple veines therein,and of adeeperpurple at the bottom round blackifh cods, covered witha almoft and thicke, fhort, places intheir come whentheyare paft, there kithfeede or Peafe, almoft like untoblackifh fhort hairineffe thereon, within whichlie three or foure roundblac {mall and fibrous, and perifheth yearely. velvet as bigge asthe cicercula, but not cornered : the roote is 2, Aracus minor Lufitanicus, The lefler wilde Cicheling Peafe. sa nothing hairy ; the flowers are of a pale This other agreeth much withthe former, but leffer inal] parts , and white Cuar, 11. ter of Plants. The Thea arn e seil. Tri eee ifh yellowcolour in 0white in my Garden, or whit er, not hairy; with thers, and the cods, {mooth, fmall in them; the Galler and blackifh coloured Peafe with 1069 4. Aracuks minor Lufitanicns. Theleffer ¢ Cicheling Peate, ; roote hereof perifheth likewile. , The Place and Time one among oBoth thefe Pulfes were brought and fent d : the firft out of ther feedes by Boel before mentione red in the flow , Spaine, and the orher out of Portugal and ft and September x end of Inly, giving their ‘feedein Angu .in April and but as hefaid,- he gathered the ripe-{eede May, in the naturall places. : Wh f AN oul zt ‘ aR KANN 8 Ko View. 7 “ i ae The Names, ul RS ~ KX | FARE AK Q \ X\ GEN bynin bo * NW AND)YH \ ) ) oN \ betweene deguos Galen in putting a difference oand 422-0 Aracus, and exfrachwt, the one with #, the or ther with x, ( and faith chat Arachus isa wild weede corne, plaguein come, and thar they pickeit ont of the NLAe S) and cattit awayasthey doe Securedica,the hatchet Ferch: and and Theoph. 8.Hift.c. 10. faith alfo that it is a hard hee Aracus rough thing growing among Lentills ; but of fpeaketh, yib.de alimentorum faculgate, inan other place) hh IW ad NY giveth meoccafion to referre thefe Pulfes thereunto ef-it pecially, becaufe judicious Authors have rendered Cicerain Latine;and Columella faith that Cicera differeth Cicera not from Cicercyla in talte, but in colour, becanfe isdarker or blacker than Cicereula and Palledrus alfo in Martiotaiththe fame thing : bat. Arachys which isren- dred Craccain Latine,is more like a Verch,both in grow- ing and in bearing many flowers in afpike atthe toppe, whichthis doth not: thus have Lendesvoured todittinpuifh thefe plants, which] finde fomany learned Writers before me have confounded, but Podoreus his:Aracu or Ciecra, a8 1 have fhewed you before, petraineth to an by other kinde: the firlt of thefe cametome from Boe/, : the nameisin the title, co whofe-opinionI wholly en~ y) cline, having often found him inoue naturall fearch for e fimples in fundry places to be oneoffingular judgement of it by Nennez Brandon, a knowledge the had he where and experience ; the other was fentme out of Portugal, which by title of Lugadem pallidum,he added Noni Brandoniy, lover of rare plants, and therefore according tohis other. referre itto the nameit hath beene knowneto others, and I nowthinke ficto The Uertues, Wechaye yet learned nothing concerning,their faculties. Cuap, XI. Cicheling Peafe, 1. Avachidna Cretica. Vnder ground Candy , $22) fome, and made them fearchif it His pulfe (whichfor the wonderfull growing thereof hath amazed by )rifeth up with diversftalkes, and were not mentioned in any former author (asl {hall fhewyouby or renne fet on both fides, of a leaves, that is, eight Keeso about a foote high, having on themboth winged or Vetches,very variable or differing one from middle ribbe,ending in claiper,very like unto Lentills E and fome ftalkes will have but pwo leaves, round, alittle others pointed, {maland themare of fome another, for fingly atthe are of areddifh’ purple, {tandi either round or pointed, and others will have foure : the flowers or five hard wh ich afrerwaids yeeld {inall long cods begger than thofe of Vetches, } unto L. {mall pods, as it were sry blacke feede: the roote is compofed of many i feede, in others two, informe very i black cods, hanging by {mall ftrings, «whereinis contained injfome one each whereof being planted a new will ; in others pa’er, and in others of differing colours, or partly coloured and bearea plant like the mother nd Peafe or Cicheli 2. Arachus [ab terra filiquifera Lufitanica. ‘Portugal undergrou hereof, whofe {lender branches Somewhat like untothe former have we received from Portzgal/another fort {mall narrowleaves fet rifing nor much above a foote high, lying for themoft part upon the ground, had many flowers which come forth {mall reddifh thereon with order upto the toppes, where and withthe leaves alfo fhooteth downe right with many turne into {malicods, containing {mall round feede within them : theroore pods, efpeci~ fhort whitith fibres thereat, and at the head of the roote, asal{o at the other parts {pring thicke and , containing within themonc or two feedes ally whilethey abide under ground, but changing darker afterwards and fomewat fpeckled. atthe moft, bigger by much than thofe in the pods above ground, Indian Earthnuts. Americanus, Vnderground Cicheling of America or 3, Arachus jaryaG , they. are termed to usby them rhathave _ The Indian Earth-muts (the figure whereof Tgiveyou, together as onely by the name t rought them us)ate verylikely togrowfrom fach like plants as are formerly defcribed, not yet feene the face thereof above ground.yerthe batby the fight and tafte of rhething itfelfe, for weehave nor huske is thicke and fomewhat long, round fruit, or Peale-cods (as I may fo call it) is farre larger, whofe outer Yyyy 3 at |