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Of theHiftory of Plants. 
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TheDefiriptitm. 
1 'T* He great Beane rifeth vp with a fonre fquare ftalke, fmooth, hollow, without ioynts, 
J[ long and vpright, which when it is thicke fowne hath no need of propping, but when 
it is fowne alone by it felfeit loone falleth dovvne to the ground : it bringeth forth 
long Ieaues one handing from another, confi fling of many growing vpon one rib or Item , euerie 
one vv hereof is fotnewhat fat, fet with veines,flipper'ie, more long than round. The floures’ areea- 
red, in forme long, in colour either white with blacke fpots,orof ablackith purp!e:after them 
come vp long cods, thicke, full of fubftance, flenderer below, frized on the infide with a certaine 
white wooll as it were, orfoft flockes ; which before they be ripe are greene, and afterwards beinp- 
dry they are blacke and fomewhat hard, as be alfo the cods of broome, yet they be longer than 
thole, and greater : in which are contained three, fonre, or fine Beanes, feldome more, long, broad 
fiat, 1‘ike almoft to a mans naile, great, and oftentimes to the weight ofhalfe a dram ’ for the moil 
part white, now and then of a red purplifh colour 3 which in their vpper part hauea longblacicna- 
uell as it were, which is couered with an tile, the colour whereof is a light greene : the skin ofthe 
fruit orbeane is clofely comparted, the inner part being dry is hard and found, and cafily cleft in 
funder j and it hath on the one fide an euident beginning of fprouting, as haue alfo the little peafe, 
great Peafe, Ciclies, and many other Pulfes. The roots hereof are long, and failned with many 
firings. ' 
1 F til. t mat or hortenjis. 
The great garden Beane. 
2 Fabafylt'eflris , 
Thewilde Beane. 
2 The fecond kinde of Beane (which Pena fetteth forth vnder the title of Sylueftris Grxcortim 
Faf’/t, and Dodenxus, Eonafylucjlris •, which may be called in Englifh Greeke Beanes) hath fquare 
hoi low ftalkes like the garden Beanes, but fmaller. The Ieaues be alfo like the common Beane, fa- 
iling that the ends of the rib whereon thofe Ieaues do grow haue at the very end fmall tendrels or 
clafpers, fuch as thd peafe Ieaues haue. The floures are in fafhion like the former, but of a darke 
red colour : which being vaded, there fucceed long cods which are blacke when they be ripe, within 
which is inclofed blacke feed as big as a Peafe, of an vnpleafant tafleand fauour, 
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