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til T be Flowers are like to thofc of the Garden 
Bean, but of a black Purple Color. The Cods are 
broad , fmall and long , containing for the tnoft part , 
5 or 6 Grains in each , 0/ rf blackifh color , flattifh , 
and of no very pleafing Tafle. 
VII. The fecond Manured, or white Manured 
Tare or Vetch. This in its Root , Stalks , Winged 
Leaves , Fajhion oj its Flowers, or their Color , 
0 « 7 r, £<?/*/» and manner of growing , nor fcarcely in 
any thing elfe , differs from the Common Tare be- 
fore dejcribed , faving , that this grows higher •, /fo 
Leaves are net fo thick , is larger and 
rounder , and of a very clear white Color , more 
like to Peafe /to Tares. 
Defcriptions of the Wild Kinds. 
VIII. The firft of the Wild Kinds, or the Great 
Wild Hedge Tare or Vetch. This has a creeping 
and living Root , growing much like to the firfl Ma- 
nured Tare, but is larger in the Size, and number 
of the Leaves. Its Stalks are ere fled, being between 
1 and 7, Feet in height. The Leaves are Winged , 
commonly a dozen growing upon one Rib , which ends 
in a Winding Tendrel : Each peculiar Leaves broad- 
er towards the bottom , and fbarper towards the top , 
which ends not flat , to fomevahat pointed. Out of 
the bofoms of the Leaves , towards the tops of the 
Stalks , f fhort Footflalks ) two , three, or 
more, pretty large Peafe fa/hioned blewifo Purple 
Flowers, which are fomewbat large , to fhorter 
than the former. The fuccecding Cods are like the 
firfl, but fhorter and leffer , and of a black color 
when ripe, which then fly open of tbemf elves, and 
fhew their contained Seed or Grains of a blackifh 
Color alfo. This Plant Tragus judges to be the 
Aphace Diofcoridis. 
T ares Wild Small. 
IX. The fecond, or fmall White Wild Tare or Vetch. 
Its Root is perennial , at many of the Wild Kinds be. 
It fends up Crejled Branches about a hoot and half 
high, growing in Form like unto the other , having 
thereon , fuch like Winged Leaves as the former , 
but whiter , having a kind of hoary Doan upon 
them. The Flowers which grow on fhort Footflalks 
out of the Bofoms of the Leaves towards the tops 
of the Stalks and Branches , are of a uihitijh Color 
with dark Fur pie Veins running thro* them. The 
Cods are like thofe of the Common Tare, and the 
Seed is flat like them alfo. 
X. The third, or Tufted Tare or Vetch. Its 
Root creeps under Ground far about , floating out 
new Branches every Tear , the old ones being perifl- 
ed. It has fuch like trai/i ng Branches eu the others 
have , but weaker ; the Winged Leaves are more in 
number , 12, 16, 20 or more, fet on a Rib, longer 
and narrower than the former, and flanding more 
upright , but then are not always fet exaflly oppofite 
one to another, but unequally. The Flowers like- 
wife which ft and upon long naked Footflalks, are 
more in number, fometimes twenty together, but 
f mailer, and fometbing like to the Flowers of 
Onobrichis, or ,Cocks-head, and of a bright blcioifl 
purple Color , and fometimes of a dark Furple with 
fome white in 1 hem. The Cods are long, containing 
within them black Seed. 
XI. The fourth, or the greater Wild Tare or 
Vetch. Its Root is fmall , and perilhes every Tear. 
It hits a few flender Crejled Stalks lying on the 
Ground, if it finds nothing on which it can climb 
or take hold. At the joints come forth Winged 
Leaves, many fmall ones being fet on both fidcs 
of a middle Rib, which ends m a Clafper, but 
leffer than thofe of Lentils or the Manured Tare. 
The Flowers are Furple, in form like thofe of the 
Tare, and grow ufual/y but one at a Joint. After 
which come fmall long black Cods, leffer than thofe 
oft he Common Tare. The Seed or Grains arc alfo 
lefs, and round, not flat as thofe of Tares are. 
XII. The fifth, or Leffer Wild Tare or Vetch. 
Its Root is fibrous, and has feveral fmall while 
Kernels hanging among them. This differs nothing 
from the former but in its ftnallnejs , excepting 
that this has whitifl Flowers flanding in Tufts at 
the tops of the Stalks. The Cods which follow, 
are fhorter and fometbing hairy , and the Seed or 
Grains within, Whitifl. 
XIII. The Places. The two firft kinds are Sown 
in Fields for their profir of Feeding Cartel, either 
with the Grain or Straw, or both; and ofthe Grain 
the poorer fort of People in many Countries are 
force ro make Bread, Cakes, Puddings, OV. The 
Wild kinds are found by Hedge- Sides, in Woods 
and moilt Grounds, and among Bullies in many 
parts of this Kingdom ; for they will grow in any 
Ground pr Soil whatfoever. The fourth and fifth 
of the Wild Kinds are often found in the Fields a- 
mong Corn, where they will in a rainy Seafon 
quickly overfpread it, and kill it, or any other 
Herbs they grow by. 
XIV. The Times. The Manured, and the three 
firft Wild Kinds, Flower in May and June ; the 
fourth and fifth in July, and the Cods or Grains 
are ripe in Auguft or September. 
XV. The Qualities. They are temperate in re- 
fpeft to heat or cold, drinefs or moifture ; Alirin- 
genr, Glutinative, Vulnerary, andReftorative. 
XVI. The Specification. They Hop Fluxes and 
cure running Ulcers and Cankers which are ready 
to Gangrene. 
XVII. The Preparations. You may make of 
them, r. Bread, Cakes and Paddings. 2. Potage. 
3. A Meal er Flower. 4. ACataplafm. 
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