.Li b. i. Of the Hillory of Plants. jzzi 
i it : the floure is white and hath about the middle of it a purple fpot: the cods be long, round OtV. 
> dri forma : in which are contained feeds greater than Ochri, or little Peafon , which bcino- dric are 
cornered, and that vnequall,ofcolour fometimes white and fometimes gray ■ tile roots are fin a II.' 
2 The field Peafc is fo, very wellknownetoall 5 thatitwercanccdle(fe labour to fpend time 
t ab^ffitthedefcription. 
3 Tufted Peafe are like vnto thofe of the field, or of the garden in each tclpcd^ the difference 
j cpnfifteth onely in that, that this plant carrieth his floures and fruit in the tops of the branches m 
I a round tuftorvmbel, contrary to all other of his kinde, which bring forth their fruit in'thc,midfr 
; and alongfl the ftalks: the root is thiche and fibrous. • 
4 Peafe without skins, in the cod s differ not from the precedent, fairing that the cods hereof 
* want that tough skinny membrane in the fame, which the hogs cannot eat by.reafonofthe tou<fti- 
neffe: whereas the other may be eaten cods and all the reft, euen as Kidney.bcanes are : which befn^ 
1 fo dreffedarcexceeding delicate meat.' ‘ ° 
5 The wilde Peafe differeth not from the common field P.eafe in ftalke and leaues, failing that 
I this wilde kinde is fomewhit leffer : the floures are of a yello.v colour, and the fruit is much feller. 
6 The Peafe whofc root neuter dies differeth not from the wilde Peafe, oncly his continuing 
] without fowing,being once fovvnc or planted, fetteth forth the difference. 
7 he Place -. 
Peafe are fet and fovvn in gardens, as alfo in the fields in all places of England. The tufted Peafe 
i are in reafonable plenty in the. Weft part of Kent, about Scnnocke or Seuenockpn other places not 
l fo co n. non. 
The wilde Peafe do grow in pafturcsand earable fields in diuers places, fpecially about the field 
! belonging vnto Bifhops Hatfield in Hartford fhire. 
% The time. 
They be fowneirithe Spring tirrie, like as be alfo other pulfes, which are ripe in Summer : they 
profper belt in wanne weather.andeafily take harme by cold,efpccial!y when they floure. 
HI The Names. ‘ 
The great Peafe is called in Latino P fum Romanumpt P.ftm mams : in EnglilTi, Roman Peafe or 
J the greater Peafe,a!fo garden Peafe: of fome.Branch Peafe, French Peafe, and Rounfiuals .Theophra. 
\ Jfus and other oid Writers do ca'l it in Greeke »V in Latine alfo Pif/m in low Dutch, Iftooittfctje 
Ptttjittn : in French dcs Poi<. T he little Peafe is called of the Apothecarieseucry where Pijum, and 
Pi fum minus : it is called in Englifh, lirt'e Peafe, or the common Peafe.- 
tp The Temp-ratur? andvertnes . 
ThePeafe,as Hippocrates faitfi,isle(fewindie than Beans, but it pafieth fooner through the belly. 
Gahn writeth,rhat Peafon are in their whole fubftance like vnto Beanes, and be eaten after the fame 
manner that Beans are,notwithftanding they differ from rhem in thefe two things, both becaitlc 
j they are not fowindie as be the beanes, and alfo for that they haue nor a clenfing faculty, and there- 
fore they do more (lowly delcend through the belly. They buie noeffe Tmll quahtie manifeft,and 
j areina meanebetween thofe things which areofgool and bad iuite.that nourifh much and little, 
tharbewindieand without winde, as Galen in his booke of the Faculties of Nourifhtnents hath 
Written of thefe and of beans . 
Chap. 511. Of the time or (jar den (jic!e. 
*j[ The Dcfcription . 
G Arden Cichebringeth forth round (talks, branched and fomewhat hairy, leaning on theonc 
.ide : the leauesare made of many littleonesgrowrngvpohone ftemor rib, and fet one right 
againft another: of which euery one is (mall, broad, and nicked oh the edges, lefler than the 
leaues ofwilde Germander : the floures be final, ofpofour either white, or ofa reddifh purpfeiafter 
which come vp litr'c (holt cods, puffed vp'as it were with winde like little bladders, in which doe 
lie two or at the moft three feeds cornered,fmall towards the end, with one (harp corner, not much 
vnlike toaRams hcad,ofco ! o rr either white, or ofa reddifh blacke purple; in which is plainly feen' 
the place where they begin firft to fprour. The root is (lender, white and long : For as fheophrajtue 
faith, the Ciche taketh deepeft root ol all the Pules. 
V The Plate. 
It is foiven in Ttaly, Sp'aine and France , euery where in the fields. It is f< wen in our London' 
gardens, but not coinmon, 
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