Lib. j. 
Of tbeHiftory of Plants; 
1151 
Mv WortWlili friend IX Urgent hath cold me, chat many yeares ago he was in this p ace, 
andcauftd °iis m P an to pull away the beach with his hands, and follow the roots fo long, vntill hee 
got fomeequall in length vnto his height, yet could come to no ends of them : hee brought thefe 
fn vvith him to London, and gaue them to D'.lM, who was then lining • and he can fed them to 
be drawne purpofing tofet them forth in that Worke which be intended to haue pubnllied, if 
God lnd fnared him longer life.Novv whether thefe Peafe be truly fo called, and be the fame with 
Sfxi Slfor different ; or whether they be rather of the ftocke of 
ior oroffome other Pulfe here formerly defenbed, I can affirme nothing of certaintie, becaufe 
haue feeneflo partofthem,norcould gather by any that had, any certaintie of their ^oe or fi- 
gure • yet won hi I not paffe them oner in filence,for that I hope this may come to be read by f me 
wholili^diereabout, that may by fending me the things themfelues,giue me certarne knowledge 
of them , that fo I may be made able, as I am alvvaies willing, to impart it to others. 
The Temperature ixndVcrtues. 
t 1 „„ nor w not found any thing written of the faculties of the two firft ; but of Afb<tce,Gden 
^fdmee kere^defoibedhatb Ais aftrin* 
gent force and facultie. $ 
Chap. 518. Of btiJldrdTtybArb. 
1 Thal/etrum, fiue T hdiclmm mttius , 
Great baflard Rubarb. 
3 Thditirum minus. 
Small baftardRubitfb. 
- Ca— X % 
«j TbeDeferipion. 
qn He ^reat Thdktrum ot baftard Rubarb hath large leaues parted ajle'nre'en colour V 
P ottofmalileaueSjfomewhatfniftaboiicchcedgeSjOfablackeocdatfiegieeflcoloiir^ 
