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Show Theatram Botanicum. Trise st, Gaiden. TTBeaterofPlants 3. Affrazalus Syriacuty The milks Vech ofSyria. CuaP. XX. Citaead, ©1085 3 — 5. Aftragalus Alpinys claviculatus magno fie. Great flowted mountaine milke Vetch. OP eAffragalus. The milke Vetch, Writers, many of aon (Aa HE knowledge of thetrue Afragalus hath troubled moft of our moderne a con1 Ss them having {ec forthdiversplantsfor it, which others have mhifliked,and therefore in fuch you thew 1 eae fufion it is hard to determine of any certaintie, yet che moft likely I will endeavour to little has Spaine)groweth oftenupright, and fometimesleaning downe with one or two round reddifhofftalkes,a tenneora dozen ry, fet with fundry winged leaves on bothfides ofthe (talkes,one above another, confifting ftalke & the leaves, {mall freth greene leaves, fomewhatlike to thofe of the leffer Sicklewort, from betweenethe many finall pale at others and at the toppes of themalfo comeforth branches ofthelike leaves in fome places, and inner edge being thin= coloured fowers, whichturne into fo many three {quare cleare skinned whitifh cods, the with divers ner,and a little bowing, the other two forming, as ir werea backe, dividing it felte into twoparts, long, and divided, {mall, {mall hard yellowith feede within them, almoftlike Fenugreeke feede: the rooteis which he named Affragalus perifhing yearely with us.. Lhad from ‘Boeligs, above named, another fort hereof leaning tothe groundbutthe marinus Beeticus (spinus, but what other chiefe difference it had from the other, obferve the varicward,I knownot, for the plant dying with me that rofe fromthe {eede, I could notfo exaétly " tic, and ince then could neverget of the fame feede.againe. Seat AfPragalus Baticus Clufy. The Spanifh milke Vetch of Ciafus, ui, a KO Pain 5 py BX A N re WW) ))), Be 4 Sy Yi ' Sf 4 2, Aftragalus wiarinus Baticus, TheSea Spanife milke Vetch, my charge out of ThisSea Spi milke Vetch (which Boeliv, brought me, with very many other things at Th SE (if yf LLY) LD) Ih W VAS 1. Aftragalia Baticus Clufy. The Spanifr milke Vetch of Clafins, This Spanif> plant hathfundry (talkes afoote high, of the bigneffe of oneslittle finger being withall ; the leavesare five cornered or crefted «ll the lengh of them, hard, fomewhat reddifh and hoairy fte at the firft,and afterwardshot; the woolly or hoary many fet oneach fide of a middle ribbe, of an afiringentta grow intoa very long {pike of flowers ftand at the tops oflong footettalkes that fhoot out from the joynts,and when they are blowne.open, but large flowers, eachas large as of the Beane or Lupine, wholly, ofa white colour {wollen long cods, of two inches ofa brownithyellowbeing in the bud safter they are, paft, there follow full the and ahalfe long, and onethicke like unto thofe of the wilde Peafe, whichbeing fhaked whentheyare drie, : the roote round feede in themWill make a noife, and being tafted doe inflame the mouth and tongue mightily thence arme,and ones of for the {mallneffe oftheplant is very great,about the length of ones hand,of thethickne hard and branching forth into flindryother {maller oness tugged and blacke one the out fide, and whitifh within wooddy, which whenitis drie is barder than an horne. 23. fragalas marinus Batuys, Spanifly Seamilke Vetch. 3. Aftragalus Syriac. Milke Vetch of Syria, ne Milke Verchit 7s ASlvagalns pur pureas montanus, The purple mountai The Syrian milke Vetch hath fuch like weake ftalkes lying om the ground, or not rifing much above it, and winged leaves alfo, but fmaller and fhorter : the flowers are larger, and growing into a thicker buth, of antexcellent red colour very beautifull, the roote is great and thicke, {preding about, 4. Aftragalus Alpinus, Mountaine Milke Vetch. q This bath from a fingle roote divers nder ftalkes fometimes ftanding up- right, and other whiles leaning downe ; the leaves arelonger, but more fparingly < fetonthe middle ribbe than the Cicers, and not dented at all aboutthe edges, but very neare re(embling thofe of the firft wood Orobys : the flowers are like tothe Vetch or Cicer, of a blewith purple co- lour : after which come long pods like 2 : 3 to Vetches ¢ the roote is tuberous or untoit, faftened by long fttings, this growing peeces like-{maller {uch other with hard, knobby, blacke and whichis accounted by Colma, for the true Arachidna differeth much from the Ohamebalanus ot Terra glandes; : : of Th opbraftus. Fo flowred motntaine mike Vetch, 5. Aftragalus AlpinusClaviculatus magno fire, Great with fome fibres thereat, divided aboveinto long, foote two woddyroote blacke, thicke, Thishath a long leaveslying on the ground like unto thofeof thicke fealy heads, from whence rife fundry long winged {mall ofnaked flalkés , of a'yellow colour, faith at the toppes Lentills : the flowers arelargeatd grow many together of a purple grew with him (if it were the fame ) was nenfis of his, but Baubinus faith, that that which is thread at the end like/a clafpers: {niall twining it ; after whom follow {mall,long, blacke pods, witha 6. Aftragalis |