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thereof; and is garnifhed with a raoft thicke and pleafant comlineffc of his dele&able red floures, 
growing vp together in great tufts,which are very feemly to behold. 
3 There hath been fome controller fie about this third kinde, which I am not willing to profe- 
Btite or enter into : it may very well be Afiragalus of oMatthiolus hisdefcription,or elfehis Poly gala, 
which doth exceeding well refemble the true Afiragalus : his fmall ftalkes grow a foot high,befec 
with leaues like Cicer or Galega, but that they are fomewhat lefTenamong which come forth fmall 
Peafe like floures pf an Orange colour, very pleafant in fightithe root is tough and flexible, of a fin- 
ger thicke. 
$ 3 Afiragalus CMatthioli. J. 4 Afiragaloides. 
MMhiolus his milke Vetch. BaftardMilke Vetch. 
4 The fourth is called of c Mutonrn and other learned Herbarifts, / Iragaloide r, for that it re- 
fembleth the true Astragalus, which grovveth a cubit high,and in (hew refembleth Liquorice : the 
floures grow at the tops of the (talks, in fliape like the Peafe bloome,ofafaire purple colour,which 
turne into fmall blacke cods when they be ripe: the root is tough and very long, creeping vponthe 
vpper part ofthe earth/md ofa-vvooddy fubftance. 
The Place. 
They grow amongft (tones, in open places, or as Oribafms vvriteth,in places fubiedt to winds, and 
couered with fnow Diofcondes copies do adde,in fhadowie places : it groweth plentifully in Phe- 
nea a citie in Arcadia,as Galen and Pliny report : in Diofiorides his copies there is read, in Memphis 
a citie of Arcadia ; but Memphis is a citie of Egypt, and in Arcadia there is none of that name ; 
fome of them grow in my garden, and in fundrie other places in England wilde ; they grow in the 
medowes neere Cambridge, where the fchollers vfe to (port thcmfelues : they grow alfo in fundrie 
placesof E flex, as about Dunmow and Clare, and many other places ofthat countrey. 
t I fliould be glad to know which or how many of thefe our Authour heere affirmes to grow 
wilde in England ; for as yet I hauenot heard of,norfeeneany ofthcnj wilde, nor in gardens with 
vs,except the laft defcribed, which growes in fome few gardens. $ 
«(j The Time. 
They fioure in lime and Inly, and their feed is ripe in September. 
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