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maoy fa* 11 flexible tough branches, full of fmall knots or knees, from each of which fori no ct h. 

 (fcthone ioag (null winged Icafc, like birJ> foot^ bur bigger : ftotn the bo "o ne of thofc | c f ucs 

 come forth little tender ftems. on the ends whereof docsrow fmall whitirti vcllow flr>,.»«o ...u._u 



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pointcucoasjiianuiuguiicuxiiaiit ifuiuanotiicrjiiKC enc amnions ur a uar,oras cnougn ltconfiit 



of little homes- wherein is contained fmall yellowifh feeds : the root is tough 3 and decpely -row i 

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^ There is another fort of Kidney Vetch called Birds- foot, or Omit ho fo Hum, wh ich hath very 

 many final land render branches, trailing here and there clofe vpon the ground, foe full of fmall 

 andfofcleaues,of a whitirti greene, inrtiapelikethelcauesof thewilde Vetch, hut a great deale 

 Mfcr.and finer, almoft like fmall feathers : amonsft which the floures do srow. thar are verv f m* ! ! 



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each and cucry cod reiembling a claw : in which are inclofed fmall feed like that of Turneps. 



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The great Birds- foot. 



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Small horned pulfe. 



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4 There is alfo another kinde ofOrnithepodittm y or Birds-foot, called fmall Birds-foot, which 

 is very like vnto the firft,but that it is much fmaller : the branches or fprigs grow not aboue a hand 

 orhalfe an hand in length, fpreading themfelues vpon the ground with his fmall leaues and bran- 



and of a red colour. 



^ArAchus : the floures are like vnto thofc of the 



* 5 This fmall horned pulfe may fitlv here take place : The root thereof confifts of many 

 itttIefibres,from which arife two or three little (lender ftraight ftalkesfomehandlull and halfeor 

 foot high :at the tops of thefe grow little (harpe pointed crooked homes, rounder and flenderer 

 th *nthofeof Fenugreeke, turning their ends inwards likethetailesof Scorpions and fo ioynted 5 

 ^ floures are fmall and yellow ; the leaues little, and winged like thofeof Birds-foot. Pm* and 

 L °M found this amongft the cornc in the fields in Narbon in France, and they fet it forth by the 



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