34 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



Beans eaten are extremely -windy meat ; but if after the 

 Dutch fashion, when they arc Jialf boiled you husk them, 

 and then stew tJicui, (I cannot tell you how, for 1 never 

 was cook in all ray life) they are wholesome food. 



French Beans. ? (c. d. 1.) 



Calleb also Kidney Beans, and cultivated for domestic 

 use. 



Descript.l It ariseth at first but w ith one stalk, which 

 afterwards divides itself into many arms or branches, but 

 all so weak that if they be not sustained with sticks or 

 poles, they m ill be fruitless ui)on the ground. At several 

 places of these branches grow foot stalks, each with 

 three broad, round, and pointed green leaves at the end 

 of them ; towards the top comes forth divers flowers, made 

 like unto pease blossoms, of the same colour for the 

 most part that the fruit will be of; that is to say, white, 

 yellow, red, blackish, or of a deep purple, but white is 

 the most usual ; after which come long and slender flat 

 rods, some crooked, some straight, with a string running 

 down the back thereof, wherein is flatfish round fruit 

 made like a kidney: the root long, spreadeth with many 

 strings annexed to it, and perisheth every year. 



The scarlet flowered Bean ariseth with sundry branches as 

 the other, but runs higher to the length of hop poles, about 

 which they grow twining, but turning contrary to the 

 the sun, having foot stalks with tliree leaves on each, as 

 on the other, the flowers also are like the other, and of a 

 most orient scarlet colour. The Beans are larger than the 

 ordinary kind, of a dead purple colour, turning black 

 when ripe and dry. The root perisheth in Winter. 



Govermne?it and Virtues.'] These also belong to Dame 

 Venus, and being dried and beat to powder, are as great 

 strengtheners of the kidnies as any are ; neither is there 

 a better remedy than it : a dram at a time taken in white 

 •wine, to prevent the stone, or to cleanse the kidnies of 

 gravel or stoppage. The ordinary French Beans are of 

 an easy digestion ; they move the belly, provoke urine, 

 enlarge the breast that is straightened with shortness of 

 breath, engender sperm, and incite to vcnery. And the 

 scarlet coloured Beaus, in regard of the glorious beauty 



