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Of Seeds, 
Part II 
The CODS of the wild WOAD , (Glafti Syheftris) 
together with the Seeds therein contain d. 
A fmall SPIRAL FRUIT, Above an inch long, and i 
over. It confiileth of five little Cods, all growing upon 
one Stalk , and thence twifted all together ( as feveral 
firings in a Rope) are at the end united in a {lender point. 
The WATER-CALTROP. Tribute aquatics. Do 
fciibed in Bauhinus. A kind of fhelly Fruit of a brown 
colour 5 divided into four thick and lharp-pointed Spikes, 
quadrangularly. In the centre of which is lodged a white 
and well tailed Kernel. They grow in the Rivers and 
Lakes in Italy and Germany. Where, in times of fcarcity, 
the people make Bread of the Kernels. 
Some EARS of Tangier WHEAT. Given by the Ho™ 
nourable Charles Howard of Norfolk, Efq$. The Plant 
defenbed in Bauhinus by the Name of Triticum cum mul- 
tiplici Spica. For it is a great broad Spike, as it were 
branched out into feveral little leffer ones 3 yet all clofely 
compacted : in the middle * inch thick, and an inch and 2 
broad 3 four long, and lharp pointed. 
Some more EARS of the fame fort, brought from Por- 
tugal where it grew. 
CHAP. III. 
Of SEEDS. 
qpHe THICK FRENCH-BEAN. Phafeolum maxim* 
tumidum. An inch and ? long, * broad, and ? an inch 
thick. The feat of the Bean, or of its Plancentula, that is, 
the part whereon it grows, as long 5 of a brown colour, 
with a black rimm. 
The llender FRENCH-BEAN, of feveral fees and 
colours,/*:. Red, Black, White or Afli-colour, and the fame 
fpoted with black. Although thefe are quite different from 
the Fabaceous kind, yet I have retained the Englifh Name, 
becaufe in ufe. 
The ROUND fcarlet Phafeolus. Abrus coccineum majus. 
00 Lib. 17. Bauhinus (a) defcribes it under the Title of Pifum America- 
p * 2d4< num 5 improperly, for that the Peafen, and the Phafeolous 
kind, 
