

LjI B. 2. 



Of the Hiilorie of Plants. 



i*47 



^ The Ttme. 



It floureth in Iune and Inly : the fruit is ripe in Auguft. 



% The Names. 



ItiscalledinGrecke^^tandin Latine,7>/£*/*/.-and that it may differ from the other which 

 grovreth in the water,it is named ictfw &*%•< , or Tritulus terreftris : it may be called in Engli(h ; land 

 Caltrops, of the likeneflc which the fruit harh with Caltrops, that are infiruments of Warre caft 





Water 



^[ TheTcmperatHreand Vert ties. 



In this land Caltrop there is an earthy and cold quality abounding, which is alfo binding, as \ 



Galen faith. 



The fruit thereof being drunke wafteth away ftones in the kidneyes,by rcafon that it is of thinne B 

 parts. 



Land Caltrops, faith Diofcorides, being drunke to the quantity of a French crowne weight, and C 

 fo applied,cureth the bitings of the Viper. 



And if it be drunke in wine it is a remedy againft poyfons : the decoftion thereof (princklcd D 

 about killeth Hols. 





*Chap. 52 6. Of Spring or mount aine^Peafe or Vetches. 



t i O rob us Venetta 



Venice Peafe. 



j> 



// 



X 2 Orobus fjliaticus vcrnus. 



Spring Peafe. 







§^y^ 



>A>* 





^f TheDefcrip 



$ I 



foot 





whereon grovrwin \ a c^toure or fix faftned toonerib, Handing by couples 



one againft anothetyvithouc any odddeaie at the end : thefe leaues are of an indi A« flC ' ar 8 encfle ! 



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