

The Garden of pi enfant Flowers. 335 



The Vertues. 



It is held to be profitable againrt the ftingings of Serpents, againft con- 

 tagious and peftilent difeafes, to bring downc the feminine courfes, for the 

 p.iincs of the belly and the ftone, and in Epilepticall difeafes, and other 

 cold paines of the braines : the roote is the moft effectual for all thefc, 

 yet the feede is fometimes vfed. 



CHAP. LXXIX. 



Legumina. Pulfe. 



IF I (hould defcribe vnto you all the kindes of Pulfe, I mould vnfold a little world 

 of varieties therein, more knowne and found out in thefe dayes, then at any time 

 before, but that mult bee a part of a greater worke, which will abide a longer time 

 before it fee the light. I (hall only felect thofe that are fit for this garden, and fct them 

 downe for your conlideration. All forts of Pulfe may be reduced vnder two generall 

 heads, that is, of Beanes and Peafe, of each whereof there is both tame and wilde : 

 Of Beanes, beiides the tame or vfuall garden Beane, and the French or Kidney Beane, 

 (whereof I meane to entreate in my Kitchen garden, as pertinent thereto) there 

 is the Lupine or flat Beane, whereof I meane to entreate here, and the blacke Beane 

 and others which mult bee referued for the Phyficke Garden. And of the kindes of 

 Peafe fome are fit for this Garden ; (whereunto I will adioyne two or three other plants 

 as neereft of affinitie, the flowers of fome, and the fruit of others being delightfull 

 to many, and therefore fit for this garden) fome for the Kitchen, the reft for the Phy- 

 licke garden. And firft of Lupines or flat Beanes, accepted as delightfull to many, and 

 therefore fit for this garden. 



i . LiUpinus fatrvus albus. The white garden Lupine. 



The garden Lupine rifeth vp with a great round ftalke, hollow and fomewhat wool- 

 ly, with diuers branches, whereon grow vpon long footeftalkes many broade leaues, 

 diuided into feuen or nine parts, or fmaller leaues, equally ftanding round about, as it 

 were in a circle, of a whitilh greene colour on the vpperfide, and more woolly vnder- 

 neath : the flowers ftand many together at feuerall ioynts, both of the greater ftalke, 

 and the branches, like vnto beanes, and of a white colour in fome places, and in others 

 of a very bleake blew tending to white : after the flowers are part, there come in their 

 places, long, broade, and flat rough cods, wherein are contained round and flat feede, 

 yellowifli on the infide, and couered with a tough white skin, and very bitter in tafte : 

 the rootes are not very great, but full of fmall fibres, whereby it fafteneth it felfe 

 ftrongly in the ground, yet perilheth euery yeare, as all the reft of thefe kindes doe. 



2. Lufiinus ceeruleus maximus. The greater blew Lupine. 



The Stemme or ftalke of this Lupine is greater then the laft before recited, as alfo 

 the leaues more foft and woolly, and the flowers are of a moft perfect blew colour, 

 with fome white fpots in the middle : the long rough greenifh cods are very great and 

 large, wherein are contained hard, flat and round feede, not fo white on the outfide as 

 the former, but fomewhat yellower, greater alfo, and more rough or hard in handling. 



3. Lupinui ceeruleus minor. The lefler blew Lupine. 



This kinde of wilde Lupine difFereth not in the forme of leafe or flower from the 

 former, but only that it is much fmaller, the leaues are greener, and haue fewer diui- 

 fions in them : the flower is of as deepe a blew colour as the laft ; the cods likewife 

 are fmall and long, containing fmall round feede, not fo flat as the former, but more 



difcoloured 



