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mow, and in the townes called Clare and Hennyngham. $ Alfoit growes by Purfleet, about the 
foot ofthe hill whereon the Wind-mill ftands ; and in diuers parts of Kent. 4: 
Horfe-l'hooe eommeth vp in certaine vntliled and funnie places of Italy and Languedocke : it 
groweth likewife in my garden. 
The Time. 
Thefe plants do floure in Iune,and their feed is ripe in Auguft: 
The Names. 
The Grecians name this, whether it be a pulfe or an infirmitie among corne, : the Latines, 
ofthe forme of the feed, Securidaca , and Hedy [arum in Englilh , Axfeed, Axwoort, Ax-fitch and 
Hatchet Fitch : itisvnknownetothe Apothecaries. 
t The fecond is the Fanugracum fyluejlre of Tragus and Dcdonxus : the Clycyrhiza fyluefiris of 
Gc/»fr ; and the G Lux vulgaris of Lobel. 4: 
Horfe-fiiooe is commonly called in Italian Sfcrro dt caudle • you may name it in Latine Terrum 
eqttmum : in Englifli,Horfe-fhooe. 
The Temperature. 
The feeds of thefe plants are hot and drie of complexion. 
% The Vertues. 
Being drunke it is acceptable to the ftomacke,and remoueth ftoppings out ofthe intrailes, and 
of like vertue be the new leaues and tender crops of the whole plant. 
Diofcondes fhevveth that it is alfogood for the ftomacke being taken in drink, and ts mixed with 
counterpo ifoiii. 
And it is thought to hinder conception, if it be applied with honie before the ad. 
The feed of Axwoort openeth the ftoppings of the liuer,theobftrudion ofthe fpleen,and of all 
the inward parts. 
Horfe-fhooe is bitter and like in nature to Axfeed. 
t The fignre which formerly w’s in thefirft pbce.agiee.i wth the third ddcription ! that which wis in the fecond place was of the HtdrfarUiH »«) 
TOo«M»»,becmg a kindeof Ferrum equmumjvhich carries the cod» many together on the tops ofrhc branches, and growc* in Germanic: whence Bauhii 
rum ecjuifltim (jermatucum filiyiit m fummiwe. 
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whence Btuhim calh it Frr« 
C H A P . 5 19. Of Teafe Earth- Ufut. 
*[ The Defcriptien. 
i nr He Peal’e Earth nut eommeth vpwith llenderand vveake ftalkes.-the leaues be thin and 
* i/tle, growing vpon {lender ftems.with clafping tendrels at the ends, with which it’im- 
braceth and taketh hold ot fuch things as ftand neere vnto it.-the floures on the tops ofthe ftalkes 
are like to thofe of Peafe -but lefll-r,of a red purple colour, in fmell not vnpleafant : in their places 
come vp long cods, in which are three or foure round fecdsithe roots be thicke, Iona, like af ter a fort 
to acorns, but much greater, blacke without, gray within, intaftelike to the Cheffe-nut :out of 
which beneath doth hang a long {lender firing : there grow out ofthe fame alfo other firings hard 
to the letting on of the (talk, vnto which creeping a Hope do grow other kernelled roots whilft the 
plant doth thus multiplie it lelfe. 
* i 2 . 1 hls ' Vlth rhalius “* his s )'- un H arcynia, fet forth by the name of Aftraralus ffuaticus, was 
by our Authortaken for.and confounded with the Terraglandes^ and therefore Ihaue put it with it 
that the difference might the better appeare, which is not a little to fuch as heedfully obferue it:’ 
But our Author in this is to be pardoned.feeing D‘.T,« V man moreexquifite in the knowledge, 
of plants.and wno had feene the true Terr* gland's in Germany, miftooke this for it, as may appeare 
by that little Trad ofhis of the names of plants in Latine and Englifh,fet forth 5 4 8 -for 
there he iaith [ I haue feene this herbe of late in Come parke more aftringent than it of Germany •] 
and indeed this growes there, and is much more aftringent and wooddie than that of Germany and 
no wife fit to be eaten.The root confifhof many blacke tuberous particles, here and there fending 
forth fibers: from hence anfe cornered ftalks tome foot high, final below, & fomwhat larger aboue: 
the leaues grow forth of the ftalks, confifting fometimes of two,& otherwhiles of 4 .longifo narrow 
leaues faftned to one footftalk, which at the fetting on hath two little leaues or cares : forth ofthe 
bofomes of thefe leaues grow ftalks fome two inches long, each ofwhich vfually carry a couple of 
Peafe, afbioneo floures of a purple colournvhich fading, vfually become blew : after thefe follow 
col s ? (tra igh ground ,ang bJacke^and inea’chof them are commonly contained nine or ten white 
round 
