4^8 The Kitchen (j&rden. 
vp a round greene hairy or prickly ftalk, bearing at the toppc, among a few fmall green 
leases, diuers ftmll yellow flowers in rough heads, which turne into doune, containing 
within them browne yellowifh fmall long feedes, fomewhat like vnto the feede of 
Hawkeweede : the roote is wooddy,w hich perifheth quickly after it hath borne feed- 
but is tender while it is young. 
The Vfe of Langdcbeefc. 
The leaues are onely vfed in all places that I know, or euer could learne, 
for an herbe for the pot among others, and is thought to bee good to loo- 
fen the belly. 
Chap. XVIII. 
Atriplex fine Oita tureum. Arrach. 
T Herebediuerskindesof Arrach, or Orach, as forae doe call them 5 fomeof 
the Garden, whereof I meane to entreate in this place; others wildc of the 
Fieldes, &c. and others of the Sea, which are not to bee fpokcn of in this 
worke, but referred to a generali hiftorie. The white garden Arrach, or Orach, hath 
diners leaues, (landing vpon their fcuerall footeftalkes, broade at the bottome, ending 
in two points like an arrow, with two feathers at the head, and fmall pointed at the 
end of the leafe, of a whitifh yellow greene colour, and as it were ftrewed ouer with 
flower or meale, efpecially while they are young : the ftalke likewife is mealy, bearing 
many branches with fmall yellow flowers on them, which turne into fmallleafie feeds : 
the roootc groweth fomewhat deepe in the ground, with many fmall threds faftened 
thereto : it quickly fpringeth vp of the feede, groweth great, and f adeth away as foon 
as it hath borne feede. 
The purple Arrach is in all things like vnto the white, fauing onely m the colour of 
the leaie, ftalke, feede, See. which are all of a mealy dully purplifh colour. 
The Vfe of Arrach. 
Arrach is cold and moift, and of a lubricke or flippery qualitie, whereby 
it quickely paffeth through the ftomacke and belly, and maketh it folublc , 
and is of many vfed for that purpofe, being boyled and buttered, or put a- 
mong other herbes into the potto make pottage. 
There are many dilhes of meate made with them while they are young, 
for being almoft without fauour of themfelues, they are the more conuer- 
tibleinto whatrellifh any one will make them with Sugar, Spice &c. 
Chap. XIX. 
Blitum. Elites. 
T Herebe diuers forts of Elites, fomewhereof I haue entreated in the former 
part of this worke, vndcr the title of ^entrant has, Flower gentle: others that 
are nourfed vp in Gardens, I will fet forth in this place, which are onely two, 
that haue come to my knowledge, that is, the white and the red, andareof aqualirie 
as neere vnro Arrach as vnro Bcetes, parricipatingof both, and therefore I haue pla- 
ced them betwixt them. The white Blite hath leaues fomewhat like vnto Beetes, but 
fmaller, rounder, and of a whitifh greene colour,euery one ftandi ng vpon a fmall long 
footeftalke : the ftalke rifethvp two or three foore high, with many fuch like leaues 
thereon : the flowers grow at the top in long round tufts or clufters, wherein are con- 
tained 
