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Of the Hiftory of Plants. L 1 b. 2. 
t 3 ThecommonBeaneinftalkes, leaues, floures,andcodsisliketheformergreat garden 
Beane, but lefler in them all ; yet the leaues are more, and grow thicker, and out of the bofomes of 
the leaues vpon little foot-ftalkes grow the floures, commonly fix in number, vpon one ftalk which 
are fucceeded by fo many cods, lefler and rounder than thofe of the former : the beans themfelues 
are alfo leffe, and not fo flat, but rounder, and fomewhat longifh : their colour are either whitifh 
yellowifh, or elfe blacke.This is fovvne in moft places of this kingdome,in come fields, and known 
both tomanandbeaft. I much wonder our Author forgot to mention fo common and vulgarly 
knowne a Pulfe. It is the B»na or Fafclut miner of Dodonaus-^ and the Faba miner of Pena and 
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f Place. 
The firft Beane is fovvne in fields and gardens euery where about London. 
This blacke Beane is fowne m a few mens gardens who be delighted in varietie and ftudy of 
herbes, whereof I haue great plenty in my garden. 
The Time. 
They flourein Aprillaud May, and that by parcels, and they be long in flouring: the fruit is 
ripe in Inly and Auguft. 
The Names. 
The garden Beane is called in Latine Faba .• in Englifh, the garden Beane : the field Beane is of 
the fame kinde and name, although the fertilitieof the foile hath amended and altered the fruit 
into a greater forme, $ The difference betvveene the garden and field Beane is a fpecificke diffe- 
rence, and notan accidcntall onecaufedby the foile, as euery one that knovveth them may well 
perceiue. t 1 
The blacke Beane, whofe figure we haue fet forth in thefecond place, is called Faba filueflris : of 
fome thought to be the true phy ficke Beane of the Antients ■ whereupon they haue named it Faba 
Veterum , and alfo Faba Gracomm, or the Greeke Beane. Some would haue the garden Beane to be 
the true Phafeolus, or Kidney Bean ; of which number Dodonstes is chiefe, who hath fo wrangled and 
ruffled among his relatiues, that all his antecedents muff be caff out of dores : for his long and te- 
dious tale of a tub we haue thought meet to commit to obliuion. It is called in Greeke 
whereupon the Athenians feaftdayes dedicated to Apollo were named , in which Beans and 
Pulfes were fodden : in Latine it'is alfocalled Fabafrefa or fraila, broken or bruifed Beane. 
t Dodo nans knew well what he did, as any thatareeither iudicious or learned may fee, if they 
looke into the firft chapter of the fecondbookeofhis fourth Pemptas. But our Authors words are 
too injurious, efpecially being without caufe, & againft him, from whom he borrowed all that was 
good in this his booke, except the figures Of Tabernamontanus. It may be D r . Priefi did not fit his 
tranflation in this place to our Authors capacitie ; for Dodonaus did not affirme it to be the Phafeo- 
lua, but f’^a/?/«r,difiinguifhing betweene them. $ 
The T cmperature and Virtues . 
A Beane before it be ripe is cold and moift : being dry it hath power to bind and reflraine,ac- 
cordtng to fome Authors : further of the temperature and vertues out of Galen. 
B 1 he Beane (as Galen faith in his booke of the Faculties of nourifhments) is wind iemeate , al- 
though it be neuer fo much fodden and drefled any way. 
C Beanes haue not a clofe and heauy fubftance, but a fpongie and light, and this fub fiance hath a 
fcounngand clenfing facultie ■ for it is plainly feene, that the meale of Beanes clenfeth away the 
filth or the skin ; by reafon ofvvhich qualitic it paflethnot flow ly through the belly. 
C And feeing the meale of Beanes is windie, the Beanes themfelues if they be boyled whole and 
eaten are yet much more windie. 
E If they be parched they lofe their windinefle, but they areharder of digeftion,and doe flowly 
defeend, and yeeld vnto the body thicke or grofle noun filing iuyee ; but if they be eaten green be- 
fore they be ripe and dried, the fame thing hapneth to them which is incident to all fruits thaflarc 
eaten before they be fully ripe ; that is to fay, they giue vnto the body a moift kinde of nourifh- 
ment, and therefore a nourifhment more full'bf excrements, not onely in the inward parts, but alfo 
in the outward, and whole body thorow : therefore thofe kindes of Beans do lefle nourifh,but they 
do more fpeedrly pa fle thorow the belly, as the faid Author in his booke of the Faculties of Ample 
Medicines faith, that the Beane is moderately cold and dry. 
F The pulpe or meate thereof doth fomewhat clenfe, the skin doth a little binde. 
G 1 lieref ore diners Phyfitians haue giuen the whole Beane boyled with vineger and fait to thofe 
that were troubled with the bloudy flix,with laskes and vomitings. 
H Itrai feth flegme outofthecheftand lungs : being outwardly applied it drieth without hurt the 
watery humors of the gout. We haue oftentimes vfed the fame being boiled in water.and fo mixed 
withfvvinesgreafe. a 
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