Of the Hiftory of Plants, 
man> fmall flexible tough branches, full of fmall knots or knees, from each of which fprineeth 
iorth one long fmall winged leafe, like birds foot, but bigger : from the bofome of thofc kfues 
omefotthhttle tender items, on the ends whereof do grow fmall whitifh yellow floures which 
are very (lender, and foone vaded, like vnto them of Birds-foot :rhefe flnnrec f „tn„ /- 
are v 
fharpe pointed cods, (landing one diftant from another, like the c 
confided of little homes; wherein is contained fmall yellowifli li 
ly growing in the ground . 
3 There is another fort of Kidney Vetch called Birds- foot i 
many fmall and tender branches, trailing here and there ' ' 3 
and foft leaues, of awhitifh greene,in 
lefler, and finer, almoft like fmall feathers :a. 
lmall, yellowifli, and fometimes whitifh; which bein: 
crooked cods, fine or fix growing together, which in 
- • ujcic noures turne into fmall 
diuifions ofa liar, or as though it 
eeds : the root is tough, and d*eep- 
,or Ornithopodiiimw hich hath very 
_ - . , dole vpon the ground, fet full of fmall 
(nape like the leaues of the wildc Vetch, but a great deale 
sramongft which the floures doe grow, that are very 
lg vaded there come in place thereof little 
r “ ,v. J - pi™' and ^ a pe are like vnto a fmall birds 
euu y cod rekindling a claw 5 tn which are mciofedfmall feed like that of Tun 
t 3 Omit hoptdiunt maim 
The great Birds-foot. 
t 5 Scorpoides Leguminoft, 
Small Horned pulfe. 
4 There isalfoanotherkindeof Ormthofodiam^ot Birds-foot, called fmall Birds-foot which 
is very likevnto the firft,but that it is much (mailer: the branches or fprigs grow not aboue 4 5 * * * * * a hand 
or halfcan hand in length, fpreading themfelues vpon the ground with his fmall leaues and bran- 
ches, m manrr of the lelfer Amchus : the floures are like vnto thofe of the former, but very fmall and 
ofa red colour. 1 5 
* 5 Tllis f™ 11 horned pulfe may fitly here take place : The root thereof confifts of many 
little fibres, from which arife two or three little (lender (Iraight ftalkes fomehandfulland halfe or 
foot high : at the tops of thefegrow little fharpe pointed crooked homes, rounder and flenderer 
than thofeof Fenugreeke, turning their ends inwards like the tailes of Scorpions and fo jointed - 
the floures are fmall and yellow ; the leaues Iirt!e,and winged like thofe of Birds-foot. Vena and 
Lokl found this amongft the corne in the fields in Narbon inFrance, and they fet it forth by the 
name as Ihaueheregitienyouit. 4 11 
ay 7 he Vlace. 
1. 3. 4. Thefe plants I found growing vpon Hampftead Heath neere London; right againft 
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