220 The Tragical Kitchen Gardiner, 



clean of weeds. As little care as pofll- 

 ble preferves this very ufeful root. 



Their dp- T" EgLimcs, thc legimitia of ServilitiSy 



hend all thofe kinds of pulfe that grow 

 in a kitchen garden in fhells or cods 5 and 

 are every day, when in feafon, gather'd 

 by hand for the ufe of the table 5 be- 

 ing, as fome authors tell us, fo caird 

 from lego, or rather legendo {quod manu 

 legantur , ) in confequence to which 

 Varro calls a gatherer of peafe, beans, 

 grapes and other fmall things, leguluSy 

 as it feems to have its derivation from 

 the fame root. Agreeable to which al- 

 fo, is that of Screvelius, in his Thefauro 

 Grac£ LingU£y who deduces legumen 

 and legumentum from the fame extrac- 

 tion of x^^f^4'y xil^oTTcv-, making a-vX- 

 Xoyzc^g, kgulus, to be a gatherer of le- 

 gumes. 



Of the Of legumes there are but three diftin£^ 

 kinds of genus's that are reduceable to this head^ 



SECT. V. 



CHAP. XLII. 



Of legumes, as peafe, beans, &e. 



