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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



Cicer fativum . 



Garden Ciche 



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It is fovvne in April,being firft a Pf , nt>A • 

 <« . day before , L U j| £ ?«H[«»- 



ripe 

 It rs called mGrceke^cj,, 



ic is cauea m Greeke,*.*,,* • ;„ r „■ 



C/w 4 rietimmf* Rams Ciches & of thAi nc ' 



k ft purple colour, Cker nigrTZhT"' 



S^ **** Wwr ; or wh »c Ciche ;„ 



Engli<h } Common Cich,or Ciches,red Cic 



t&k&r Cichc Peafe > °< *5 



^f The Temperature and Venues. 



The Ciche,as Galen writeth in his bookeof 

 the Faculties ofnourifhments, is no Idfe win- 

 die than the true Eeane,but it yeeldeth a ftron 

 ger nourifliment than that doth ; it prouoketh 

 luft,and it is thought to engender feed. 



Somegiue the fame to ftalion horfes. More- 

 ouer, Ciches do fcoure more than doe the true 

 Beanes : infomuch as certaincof themdoema- 

 nifeftly diminifh or wafte away the ftones in 



Kidneyes 



^Arietina 



of them 



in water. 



Both the Rams Ciches, as Dioprifa faith, 

 the white and theblacke prouoke wine, if the 

 deco&ion therof be made with Rofemary, and 

 /- ^„ f . . ,. r . . . _ „ giuen vnto thofe that haue either the Drop- 



fie or yellow jaundife 3 but they are hurtfull vnto the Bladder and Kidneies that hauevlcersin 

 tnem. 



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C h a p. 512. Of mlde Qicbes. 



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% TheKindes. 

 *THe ivilde Ciche is like to the tame (faith Diofcoricfes) but it differeth in feed : the later writers 



* haue fet downe twro kindes thereof,as fliall bedeclared. 



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ground : about which be the leaues 3 confifting of many vpon one rib as do thoie m «* 

 garden Cicb,butnoc nicked in the edges,more like to the leaues of Axcich : the flours 



faftned on fmall ftems.whieh prow clofe to the ftallrM of a nale vellow coloured uw 



come forth faftned on fmall ftems.which grow clofe'to the fta!kes,of a pale yellow coloured like 

 vnto eares : m their places come vp little cods,in forme and bignefle of the fruit of garden Cicflcs, 

 DiacXeandfomethin2hairvf*nwhirhl^rhfli<=r^ri *w •« r,n*il h*,A flat- and flittering, M™ nc 



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biackeand fomething hairy,in which lieth the feed, that is fmall, hard, flat,and glittering 

 like tnat ot Kidney Beane : the root grovveth deepe, fattened with many ftrings. 



2 There is another kinde or wild Cich that hath alfo a great number of ftalkes 1 y 1 1 ng vpon 

 ground, about winch ftand foft leaues, fomething hairy and white, confiding of three bread. lea* 

 landing vpon a middle rib, the Ieaft ofwbich ftand neireft to the ftem, and the greareft at the *0 

 top : the floures come forth at the bottome of the leaues many together, of colour yelkw v at 

 which grow fmall long huskes, foft and hairy, in euery one whereof is a little cod ; in wh.ch Jic 

 feeds like little Cichlings. * ' r ^ 



