The Time. 
Itfloureth in Iune and Iuly : the fruit is ripe in Auguft. 
The Names. 
It is called in Greeke •• and in Latine Tribulus .-and that it may differ from the other which 
groweth in the water, it is named or Trihiltis terrejlris : it may be called in En^liflt land 
Caltrops, of the likenefle which the fruit hath with Caltrops, that are mftrumtnts of Warrre 
call in the way to annoy the feet of the Enemies horfes , as is before remembred in the Water S x- 
ligot. 
The Temperature andTcrtues. 
In this land Caltrop there is an earthy and cold qualitie abounding, which is alfobindin°- as A 
Galen faith. 
The fruit thereof being drunke wafteth away ftones in the kidneyes, by reafon that it is of thin B 
parts. 
Land Caltrops, faith Diofimdes, be : ng dr. ake to the quantitie of a French crowne weight and C 
fo applied, cureth the bitmgs of the Viper. 5 
And if it be drunke in wine it is a remedk againft poyfons : the decoftion thereof fprinckled D 
about killeth fleas. 
i C h a p . 5 2 6 . Oj Spring or mount nine Teafe.or Vetches . 
£ r OrobtuVenetiis. $ i Qrobrn fyluaticus vernus , 
Venice Peafe. Spring Peafe, 
TheDefcription. 
J i *~p'H is, which Clufitts calls o rebus Vend us, hath many cornered ftalkes fome foot long, 
i. whereon grow winged leaues, foure or fix faftned to one rib, Handing by couples 
one againft another, without any odde leafe at the end : thefe leaues are of an indifferent Iargeneffe, 
and 
Of the Hiflory of Plants. 
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