T2Z2, 
L ; 3. 2. 
(31 the Hiftory cf Plants. 
Cicerjalivurn. 
Garden Ciche, 
The Time . 
It is fowne in April!, being firft fteeped in wa- 
ter a day before : the f ruit is ripe in Align ft'. 
^ The Names. 
It is called in Greeke in Latine, 
Ciccr ar.etinum, or Rams C icbcs, & of the blac- 
kifh purple co'our, Cieer nigrum , t el rubrttm , 
blacke or red Ciche : andtheother is named 
Condi dum vd album Cicer orwhite Ciche: in 
tngiiiTi, Common Cicli, or Ciches, red Cich, 
ofiome, Sheepes Ciche Peafe, or Shecpes 
Ciche Peafon. 
*17 The Temperature and yertnes'. 
The Ciche.as Galen vvfiteth in his bookeof 
the Faculties of nourifhments, is no Icffi’win- 
die than the rrue Bean, but . it yeelderh a Aron- 
s'- 1 " nourifhmentthan that doth : irpronoketh 
Juff,and it is thought to ingender feed. 
Some giue the fame to italion, horfeS; More- 
oner, Ciches do /couie mbre than do the true 
Beanes : infbmuch as certaine of them doma- 
nifeftly diminirti orwafte away the ftones in 
the Kidneycs : thofe be the blacke and little 
Ciches called Cd r ittin<tfH Rams Ciches, but 
it is better todrinke the broth of them fodden 
in water. 
Both theRams Ciches, as Diofcorides faith, 
the white and the blacke, prouoke nine, if the 
decodion therbf be made with Rofi marv,and 
fie or yellow iaundice ; 
them. 
giuenvnro thofe that hand either the D*-op- 
■it they are hurtfullvnto the bladder and Kidneies that haue vlctrs in 
C h a p. 512. Of rnlde Riches. 
. The Kinder. 
T , HC W ' ( ildc , C,clle 15 > ike to cllc tameffaith Diofcoridrs) but it differeth in feed: the later writers 
naue let doivne two kmdes hereof,as lliall be declared. 
AT 7 he Dcfcription. 
i -T-He firft wilde Cich bringeth forth a great number of ftalks branched, lying flat on the 
garden C ; ' ab01 "; W j ‘ ch , be the Ieaues > c onfifting of many vpon one rib as do thofe of the 
forth faftneS n b f C "nT ' ntlc cd S es ; " ort '-Te to the leaues of A xckb : the floure s co tie 
earns- n theft 1 ftems ^bich grow clofe to the ftalks, of a pale yellow coloured likevnto 
lie P C " come vp little cods.in forme and bigneffe of the fruit ofgarden Cic'-cs b'ack 
Of K Zv Bea S nc a, r r i ie ' ln Wh ‘ ch Iie ?, the r ^' that . is Ward.flat.and glittering, in tafte like that 
or JvUnev Beane : the root growerh deepc/aftcned with many firings. 
* TI ’ ercisanort, «kindeofwi!de Cich that hath alfoa great rumberof ftalks Iving vron the 
Zdin’^Z " hlC a H 3n i; foft ]eall es, fortieth ing baity and white, confifting ofthre'e broad leaues 
ml ll r 2 middk ; r,, V be >eaft which ftand neeteft to the ftem.and thegreareft at thevery 
, . 1 e fioures come forth at the botrome of the leaues.many together, of co'our vellow • after 
fL c-ds 1 ike*]! c tde 3 C i^h ngs 5 .^ 6 and hairy, in euery °ne whereof i s a little cod, in which lie two 
