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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
L 3 B.7, 
Chap. 520 . Of Vetch. 
^ The Kwdcs. 
r be diuers (ores of .herbes contained vnder the title of A(lra g alus, whether I may .without 
, breach ofpromife made in the beginning, infert them among the Lmmini, puifes,or heibie 
plants,it is doubtfull : but feeing the matter is difputable, I think it not amift'e to fuffer them thus 
bourhood 11 ^° me0t ^ C1 ^ ^ndeaplace morcconuenient and agreeing vnto them in ncigh- 
the Defcription . 
x '"a He firft kmde 01 Aftrugalus hath reddifh ftalks,a cubit h igh,a fingerlhicke, fomewhat 
* fi'rrowcd^nd couered oner with an hairy moflines. which dimde them fellies 
• , ,, •, 1 ", bjndryfmal branches, befet with leaucs confifting offundty Jittleleaues fetvpon 
a middle rib like the w l.de Vetch, placed on the fmallpliant branches like feathers, which are Jike- 
wife couered ouerwith a woolhc hoarincffc . in tafte aftringent at the firft, but afterwards burning 
hot : among thefe Jeaues come forth many fmall white ficures, in fafhion like the fioures of Lu- 
r e , me 1° be fomewhat yellow the rootis maruellous great and 
ge, confidu ing the fmalnefTe o. the plant ; for fometimes itgroweth to the bier, effe of a mans 
arme, keeping the fame bigneffc for the fpace of a fpan in length, and after diuideth it felfe into 
woor more forksor branches blackew. thousand wrinckJed^hitc within, bard and woodd.e,and 
in tafte vnpleafant,which being dried becommcth harder than an home. 
I Aflritgalus Lufitanicus Cluftj, 
Portingale milke Vetch. 
2 isijlraralus Sjriacus, 
Aftyrian milke Vetch, 
3 rareand gaUant plant,and may well be termed Pi mu le- 
'tiidco ( hisftilto: in'] / IS acc0l mted fora kinde of /t/r^<j/«r,refembling the fame in the fimili- 
f his fta.kes and leaucs, as alfo in the thicknefle of his rootes, and the creeping and folding . 
thereof 
