IB. Z. 
Of the Hiftroy of Plants. 
ound feeds : it flou'res moft part of Summer, and psrfe&s the feed in Inly and Auguft. £ 
I T err sgUndes. 
Peafe £arth-nut. 
£• 2 K_A(lragalus fjluaticus. 
Wood Peafe, or Heath Peafe, 
*f The Place. 
f i This grovveth in corne fields, both with the come it felfe, and alfo about the borders of 
fields among briers and bwmbles ; it is found in diuers places of Germany, but not with vs that I 
can yet learne. 
I This is found in the woods and paftures of England, efpeeially in Hampflead wood neere 
London: it groweth in Richmond Heath, and in Come parke likewife. 
^1 The Time.. 
Itfloureth in Iune and Iuly,the nuts after harueft be digged vp and gathered. 
The Thames. 
It is called in high Dutch,Ctt)nU(TCtt : in low Dutch,(SctDnotCtl, ^CtUcecReletl, and f$)UPfp 
ntct(tcetten,that is to fay, tailed Mife,of the fimilitude or likenefie ofdomefticall mife, which the 
blacke, round, and long nuts,with a piece of the {lender firing hanging out behind, do reprefent: the 
later writers do call it in Latine Terrs gUndcs or T errefiresghmdu: and in Greeke,<?wfW>j> , Chums 
halam in Englifh, Peafe Earth nut. 
V^The Temperature and Vertues. 
The Nuts of this Peafe being boiled and eaten, are hardlier digefled than be either Turneps Or 
Parfneps,yetdothey nourifh no lefle than the Parfneps : they are not fo windie as they, they doe 
more flovvly pafTe through the belly,by reafon of their binding qualitie, and being eaten raw they 
be yet harder of digeftion, and do hardlier and (lowlier defeend. 
They be of temperature meanly hot, and fomewhat dr ie, being withallnot a lixtlebindingnvher-* 
upon alfo they do not onely flay the fkixes of the belly, but alfo all iffues of bloud, efpeeially from 
the mother or bladder. 
The root of Peafe Earth-nut ftoppeth the belly, and the inordinate courfe of womens fickneffe. 
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