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The Vertues. 
It is held to be profitable againft the ftingings of Serpents, again ft con- 
tagious and peftilent difeafes, to bring downe the feminine courles, for the 
paines of the belly and the ftone, and in Epilepticafl difeafes, and other 
cold paines of the braines : the roote isthemoft effeduall for all thefe, 
yet the feede is fometimes vied. 
Chaf. LXXIX. 
Legumim. Pulfe, 
I F I (houid deferibe vnto you all the kindes of Pulfe, I fhould vnfold a little world 
of varieties therein, more knowne and found out in thefedayes, then at any time 
before, but that muft bee a part of a greater worke, which will abide a longer time 
before it fee the light. I fhall only feledl thofe that are fit for this garden, and let them 
downe for your confederation. All forts of Pulfe may be reduced vnder two generali 
heads, thatis, of Beanes and Peafe, of each whereof there is both tame and wilde : 
Of Beanes, befides the tame or vfuall garden Beane, and the French or Kidney Beane, 
(whereof I meane to entreatc in my Kitchen garden, as pertinent thereto) there 
is the Lupine or flat Beane, whereof I meane to entreatc here, and the blacke Beane 
and others which muft 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 
asneereftof 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- 
ficke garden . An d firft of Lupines or flat Beanes,acceptcd as delightfull to many , and 
therefore fit for this garden. 
1 . lupinus fitivus *l6ut. 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 footcftalkes many broade leaues, 
diuided into feuen or nine parts, or (mailer leaues, equally (landing round about, as it 
Were in a circle, of a whitilh greene colour on the vpperfide, and more woolly vnder- 
neath: the flowers (land many togetherat feuerall ioynts, bothof thegreater ftalke, 
and thebranches, like vnto beanes, and of a white colour in fome places, and in ethers 
of a very bleake blew tending to white : after the flowers are pad, there come in their 
places, long,broade,and flat rough cods, wherein are contained round and flat feede, 
yellowifti 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 faftenetb it felfc 
ftrongly in theground,yet perifheth euery yeare,as all thereft of thefe kindes doe. 
2 . Lupinus aruit us 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 mod perfed blew colour, 
with fome white fpots in the middle : the long rough grccnifh 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 . Lupinus urulcui miner. The lefler blew Lupine. 
Thiskindeof 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 haug fewer diui- 
fionsinthem : theflowerisof asdeepea blew colour as the laft ; the cods likewife 
are fmall and long, containing fmall round feede, not fo flatas the former, but more 
difcoloured 
