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Show Cuaron, Se Theatram Botanicum. a bovea foote high, with divers winged leaves growing on the {talkes, which are weake and_not {tanding upright, each of the leavesis {mall not very long andround.attheend, atthe roppe ftand many {mall ote flowers (AZatthiolus faith reddithbut I thinke e wastherein miftakenas he was alfo in the pods to fay the ends were blunt) which turne into fo many long flat thin ‘cods and reddith,with a {mall crooked point : the feede 1s flat and reddifh within them, fo lying in them that they maybe: difcerned in the cod wheretheylye, but not like an Hatchet as many have fet itdowne, thinking it therein to agree with DicJcorides his difcription, for he doth compare the whole cod and not the feede rhereunto: the rootis {mall and perifheth yearely. 2. Tr IBE 11, 2. Hedy/arum minus. . ‘Theleffer Hatchet Vetch or Sickleworr, Tew. The Theater ofPlants. —— TSteuridacaatticalatamajor wizor. CHar.21,,> cpigisisnheahisiasbebum it aeg peregrina Clujj, Strange Harchst Vtech, 5. Securidaca *hyearcater and leffer yoyneed Harchet Witch, - Hedyfartim minusfive Securidaca minor. The Jeffler Hatchet Vetch or Sikcle-wort. The Iefler Hatchet Vetchis like unto the former but fomewhat leffer, yet nor much lower if it grow inany_ good ground,the flowers grow manytogether of a pale yellowcolour, and after them come {mall crooked cods bowed as it were almoft together, wherein lie pale browne feedesnotfully round but fquare and lefler, the roote hereof likewife perifheth yearely withus. z4 Securidaca major articulata. The greater joynted Hatchet Vetch, This Plant groweth greater and higher then the two former, and foare the winged leaves morein number and fomewhat larger: from the joynts rife long ftalkes with a great manyflowers at the toppes of them, fmelling foméwhat ftrong, ofblufh and white mixed together, after whichfollowlong round and not flat cods, a little hooked with divers joyntsasit were, or bunchedplaces like the true Orebw:y wherein lye red feede fomewhat long : the roote creepeth farre abroad and perifheth not, Hie 4. Securidaca articalata minor. "Thelefler joynted Hatchet Vetch. Thisleffer islikethe former, bur lowerand leffer in ftalkes, and fewer alfo in leaves upon the middle rib; the fowers alfo are {maller,but as many or more growing together atthe toppesof the flalkes’ thar rife from the joynts of the leaves,and are of a pale red or blafh colour, in their places grow {mall round heads with crooked toppes much refembling a Billhooke, fuch as labouring countrey men’ doe nfe to cut their hedges withall ; whereinlyeth but onefeede as having but one bunch: the rooteis hard and woody {preading under ground and endureth long. 5« Securidaca peregrina Clufi. Strange Hetchet Vetch. ThisTtranger groweth lowerthenany of the former being nota foote high with divers winged {mall branches; bearing fome {uchlike leaves on them but fmaller,and at the toppe fundry fmail whitifh flowers, and after them long broad thin and flat cods waved inon both edges,whercin lye divers flat browne {eedes: the roote is {mall and {tringyperifhing yearely. 6, Securidaca mininia. The lealt Hatchet Vetch. This leaft fort hath Ralkes a foote long {pread on the ground, -having divers leaves feton a ftalke,but the end hath alwayes three ftanding together, it hath manyflowers on ftalke :che feede is reddifh and biforked, lying in veryfmall hooked fhort cods ftriped overchwart,this groweth by AZompelier. : 7. Hedylarum argenteum Creticum, White Hatchet Vetch of Candy, This (adit rifeth up with a {lender ftalke, branching forthon all fides and winged ftalkés of leaves thereon, fomewhar like to thofe of the Ciche Peafe : rhe flowers grow atthe toppes manyon a bofhor round tuft together, nearerefémbling thofe of the medow Trefoile, of a white filverlike colour ofareafonable good fent, after the flowers ate paft there fucceedein their places {mall {lender cods, wherein are conteined the feede which is imall and round : the roote confifteth of manyftringsandfibres which abideth manyyeares : and holding greene leavesall the Winter. 8. Sophera five Egyptiaca vitiofa, The dangerous Hatchet Vetch of Egypt. Tonpri Pelee Hoxorivs Bellus inhi s fourth Epiftle to Clufins whichis fet at the end of his rariornm plantar biftoria, faith that Alpinw: hath erred in fetting forth the Figure ofthis plant( whichyet in want of abetter Lamfaine to nfe)in that the t leaves on ¢ veryftalke are even without any odde oneat the end,and that the pods do growupright and do not hang downe Itus,faith he,a goodlyfhrubbyplant, rifing two or three cubitshigh, {preading fundry branches of winged leaves {ct one againft another, and clofing themfelves every night, opening withevery mornings Sunne : the flowers are yellowand the pods longand flender ftanding upright and ofa fingers length: the roote is Wooddy; divers wayes difperfed under groundbur abideth with grcene leaves all the Winter,and abideth long with the flowers thereon, One very like | \ereunto we have recived from Virginia, by the name of Lentils of Virginia, but that this hath: at everyy joynt wii th the leavésa {mall harmeleffe pricke,which quickly falleth away from the lower and Jo elder parts,abiding onely a while on the upper and more tenderflalkes. 9. Sefban five Securidaca Egyptiata articulata, Hatchet Vetch of Egypt with long joynted cods. his kinde kinc of Pulfe Dial growethf@mewhat EtG : a fhrubbein 5 the : ee This like hotter countries, with fundry hard and wooddy 7. Hedy/arura argenteaux Creticum. White Hatchet Vetch of Candy. B. Sophera five Securidaca Eg yptiacavitio(e. The dangerous Vereh of Bayph. TATTTTA o 1088 1089 |