Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
L 1 B. 2. 
2 Onobrycbis »; Clafj. 
Blew Medickc Fitch. 
5 Onobrycbis montunt q.Clufij. 
- Mountaine Medick Fetch.- 
4 Onobrycbis 3 . Cltifijflorepdllido. 
Pale coloured Medicke Fitch. 
floures, of a pale colour, and in (hape like thole 
of the fecond kinde; which being vaded, there 
follow frnall bottle cods, wherein is contained 
littleblacke feed like the feed of Fenegreek,but 
fmaller. The root is thicke and hard, and of a 
wooddie fubftance,and lading very long. 
5 The fifth kinde of Onobrycbis hath many 
grofleand wooddie (talks, proceeding immedi- 
atly from a thick, fat, and flefhie tough root: the. 
vpper part of which are fmall, round, and pliant, 
garnifhed with little leaues like thofe of Len- 
tils, or rather Ti'^af.wr/w/omtwhat foft,and co- 
uered otter with a woollie hairinefle : amongd; 
which come forth little long and naked (terns, 
eight or nine inches long, whereon do grow ma - 
ny fmall floures of the fafhion of the Vetch ot 
Lentill.but of a blew colour tending to purple ^ 
and after them come final cods,wherein the feed, 
i$ contained. 
The Place. 
Thefirft and fecond grow vpon Barton hill, 
foure miles from Lewton in Bedfordfhire, vpon 
both the (ides of the hill :and likewife vpon the 
graffiebalks between the lands of corn two miles 
from Cambridge, neere to a water mill towards 
London ;&diuers other places by the way from 
London to Cambridge : the reft are ftrangers in 
England. 
T be Time. 
Thefe plants do fleure in Iuly,& their feed is 
ripe fhortly after. — ~ ' «!j The 
