138 JOHN GOODYER 



leaves also grow the tendrels : the flowers grow on footstalks 

 which are five inches long, commonly two on a foot-stalke, the 

 great upper covering leaves being of a bright red colour, and the 

 under leaves are somewhat paler : after commeth flat cods, con- 

 taining seven or eight small round peason, no bigger than a Pepper 

 corne, gray and blacke, spotted before they are ripe, and when 

 they are fully ripe of a blacke colour, in taste like common Peason : 

 the stalks, leaves, foot-stalkes and coddes'are somwhat hairy and 

 rough. — MS. f. 109 ; Ger. eviac. 1629. 



Lathyriis tuber osiis L. 

 Lathyrus aestivus dumetorum Baeticus Boelii. [28 Julii 1621] 



Hath also flat skinnie stalks like the said Lathyrus latiore folio, 

 but smaller, and in the manner of the growing of the leaves 

 altogether contrarie. This hath also two small sharp pointed 

 leaves, adioyning to the stalke : betweene which groweth forth 

 a flat middle rib with tendrels at the top, having on each side (not 

 one against another) commonly three blunt topped leaves, some- 

 times three on the one side, and two on the other, and sometimes 

 but foure in all, about an inch and a halfe long : the flowers grow 

 on foot-stalks, about two or three inches long, each foot-stalk 

 usually bearing two flowers, the great covering leafe being of a 

 bright red colour ; and the two under leaves of a blewish purple 

 colour : after which follow smooth cods, above two inches long, 

 containing, five, sixe, or seven smooth Peason, of a browne Chestnut 

 colour, not round, but somewhat flat, more long than broad, 

 especially those next both the ends of the cod, of the bignesse and 

 taste of common field peason. — MS. f. 109 ; Gcr. eniac. 1629. 



cia sativa \i linearis Lange. 

 Aracus maior Baeticus Boelii. 30 Julii 1621 



It hath small weake foure square straked trayling branches, two 

 foot high, lesser, but like those of Fetches ; whereon grow manie 

 leaves without order, and every severall leafe is composed of six, 

 seven, or more small sharpe pointed leaves, like those of Lentils, set 

 on each side of a middle rib, which middle rib endeth with clasping 

 tendrels : the flowers grow forth of the bosomes of the leaves, but 

 one in a place, almost without any foot-stalkes at all, like those 

 of Vetches, but of a whitish colour, with purple strakes, and of 

 a deep colour tendinge to purple towards the nailes of the upper 

 covering leaves : after which follow the cods, which arc little above 

 an inch long, not fully so big as those of the wilde beane, almost 

 round, and very hairy : wherein is contained about 4 peason. 



