The Virtues . 
XVIII. The Breads Cokes, Budding, &c. They 
are made and ufed cor, (burly in many Countries, 
among the poorer fort of People ; which tho’coarfe 
Food , and fomething hard of Digeition, yet 
nourilh much: And in many other places they are 
forced to be eaten by all forts of People, in times 
of Famine. 
XIX. The Forage. It is made by boiling them 
foft in Water, then adding thereto Meal, Pork, 
Cabbage, Coleworts, and other Herbs, or Milk. 
It nouriflies very much, reftores in Conlumptions, 
and flops Fluxes of the Bowels. 
XX. The Meal or Flower. Applyed plenti- 
fully to Bleeding Wounds, and old running Sores, 
it flops the Bleeding, and the Flux of Humors to 
the part ^ more efpecially, if an eighth or fixth 
part of Roch Alum in fine Pouder be added to it. 
XXI. The Cataplafm. It is made of the Meal 
or Flower being mixed with Milk , or Smiths 
Forge Water. Being applyed to running Sores or 
Ulcers, it flops the Defluxion, cleanfes them, and 
prevents a Gangrene if approaching ; and being 
laid warm all over thewholeBody, it flops Fluxes 
of the Bowels. 
XXII. Nota. The fourth and fifth of the Wild 
Kinds, are Pulfes with which Doves or Pigeons 
are much delighted : And altho’ the Fowls are 
wild, yet where the Dove-Houles are ferved here- 
with, they will refort to the lame, and in fome 
little time become Tame with the reft. And there- 
fore in fome Countries, whole Fields are Sown 
with them to ferve for that ufe* 
CHAP. DCLXXXIV. 
Of TARE Everlafting . 
I. HptfE Names. It is called in Greek, a £Qu S & 
_L * in Latine, Lathyrus perennis ; in 
Englifti, Tare Everlafting. 
II. The Kinds. We make two forts hereof, 
viz. I . Lathyrus perennis Lathyrus Sylvejlris 
flore luteo \ Vicia perennis , Vida Sylvejlris flore 
luteo Tare Everlafting, properly fo called. 2. Vi- 
cia Sylvejlris perennis , Vicia Sylvejlris vulgaris , 
Strangle Tare, and Common Wild Tare. 
The Descriptions. 
III. The firft, or Tare Everlafting. Its Root is 
fmall and rough , running infinitely under Ground ', 
fcarcely to be dejlroyed. It is a ramping Wild Tare 
or Vetch, and is the mofi pernicious Herb that can 
grow on the Earth , for Corn or any other Herbage , 
by over-running , fir angling as it were , and killing 
them : It fends forth long rough trailing Stalks , 
having fmall , long , and fharp pointed Leaves fet on 
them one oppofite to another , at due difiances , with 
Tendrels or Clafpers at the ends of the Branches : 
The F lowers fiand upon pretty long Footfialks , pro- 
ceeding from the Bofoms of the Leaves , which are 
many upon a Stalk , and yellow 5 after which come 
fmall round. Cods with blackifh fmall Grains with- 
in them . 
Tare or Vetch, Everlaftinsr. 
IV. Gerard defcribes it thus. Its Roots are very 
fmall, , long , tough , and in Number infinite ; info- 
much, that being once gotten into a Ground, it is 
almoft impojjible to root it forth , unlefs the Earth 
be digged up with the Roots, and both cafl into a 
River or Burned. From thefe Roots fpring divers 
very fmall ramping Stalks, tough , and leaning 
this way and that way, not able to fiand of them- 
fe Ives without the help of Props, or fome thing fund- 
ing by them to be a Support. The Leaves are very 
thin , and fharp pointed. The Flowers grow along 
the Leaves, in form like Peafe Blojfoms, but of a 
bright yellow Color. Doubt lefs this is one of the 
moji hurtful and pernicious Weeds that grows, to 
all manner of green Herbs, or any Wood xohatfoever. 
Johnfon Jays, for the refemblance it has to Aphaca, 
he ufes to call it Aphacoides. 
V. The fecond, or Strangle Tare, or Common 
Wild Tare. Its Root is long, flender and firingy , 
from whence fprings up many flender weak Branches ! 
The Leaves are winged, and much fmaller than in 
the Common Manured Tare, round or broad pointed, 
and fometimes dented in in the middle of the end 
fiandmg upon a middle Rib, which ends in clafping 
Tendrels. The Flowers are of a Purple Color, and 
commonly grow but one at a joint upon fhort Foot- 
ftalks -, after which come long, fiat, fharp pointed 
Cods, which contain for the mofi part, 9 or lo 
Grains or Seeds in each. In fome Countries this 
Plant is called Tine ; it is a ramping Herb , like to 
the Common Tare, climbing up upon C$rn, if it 
chances to grow among it, and will wen prefs or beat 
it down to the Ground, and overgrows the fame lit 
fuch a manner, that it firangles, fpoils and kills 
it not only Wheat, but all other Grain whatfoever* 
So that among Country Farmers it is better known 
than defired, VI, Tbt 
