the Hillory of Plants. 
Scorpio ides mitlttfhjrus Boelij. 
This Plant is in creeping branches and leaues like the common Scorpioidcs buplettri folio : the 
fiou-es are al To alike, blit a little bigger, and grow foure or due together on one foot-ftalke : the 
cods are tougher, and very much turned round, or folded one within another: in ail tilings elfe 
alike. ° 
Scorpioidts ftliqua cr.ijfa Boelij. 
This is alfo like the other in creeping branches and leaues : the floures are fomething bigger 
than any of the reft, and grow not aboue one or two together on a foot- (talk : the cod s are crooked 
without any rough haire, yet finely checlcquered, and feuen times bigger than any of the reft flirty 
as big as a great Palmer-worme, wherein is the difference : the feed is aimoft round, yet extending 
fomevyhat in length, aimoft as bigas fniall field Peafon, ofabrowneor yellovvifh colour. This al- 
fo perifheth when the feed is ripe. Sept. i. 1C2.1. 
Silibtim minus fore nut ante Boelij. 
This Thiftle is in ftalkes and leaues much fmaller thanour Ladies Thiftle, that is to fay, The 
fta'kes are round, ftraked,fomewhat woolly, with narrow skinny prickly edge's three or foure foot 
high, diuided into many branches, whereon grow long leaues, deeply dinided.fullofwhite milke- 
hke ftreakes and Iharpe prickles by the edges : the floures grow on the tops ofthe ftalks and bran- 
ches, forth of fmall heads,commonIy turning downwards, of the bignefle ofan 01 iue,fet with very 
fmall flendcr Iharpe pricks, containing nothing but fmall purple'chiues, (preading abroad like 
thole of /acta, with fame blewifh chines in the middle : the feed followeth, inclofedln downe,and 
is fmall and grayilh like the feed of other Thirties, but it is as clammy as bird-lime The whole 
plant perhheth at Wintsr,and renewethit felfe by the falling of his feed. I findc not this written 
of. Ic was firft gathered by Bodttts m Spaine, and imparted vnto M r . William Cojt, who friendly 
gaue me feeds thereof. • 1 
Aracut maior Baticus Boelij. 
It hath fmall weake foure fquare ftreaked trailing branches, two foot high, Idler, but like thofc 
of Fetches , whereon grow many leaues without order, and euery feuerall leafe is compofed of fix, 
feuen, or more fmall Iharpe pointed leaues, like thofeof Lentils, fet on each fide of amiddle rib, 
which middle rib endeth with clafping tendrels :thc floures grow forth ofthe bofomes of the 
leaues, but one in a place, aimoft without any foot-ftalkes at all, like thofe of Vetches, but of a 
whitifh colour, with purple ftreakes, and of a deeper colour tending to purple towards thenaiies 
of the vpper couering leaues : after which follow the cods, which are litcle aboue an inch long, not 
fully fo big as thofe ofthe wilde beane, aimoft round, and very hairy : wherein is contained about 
4 peafon, fcldom round, mod commonly fomevvhat flat, and fometimes cornered, of a blackifhco- 
lour,neereas bigas field peafon, and ofthe tafteof Fetches : the whole herbe perifheth when the 
feed is ripe. This plant Boehm fent toM'. WtHtamCoys, who hath carefully preferued the fame kind 
euer fince,and friendly imparted feeds thereof to me in Anno 1620. 
Legttmcn pallidum Vlifipomnf, Nonij Br.wdoxjj. 
This plant is very like, both in ftalks, leaues, and cods, to <.Aracus maior Beticus , but the floures 
of this are of a pale yellow or Primrofe colour, and the whole herbe fmaller, and nothin^ fo hairy. 
It perifheth aifo when the feed is ripe I receiued the feeds likewife from M ’.Cops. 
VicialncUcafruBu albo. Pi fum Indicum Gerardo. 
This Vetch differed] not rn any thing at all, either in ftalkes.Ieaues, cods, fafhion ofthe floures, 
or colour thereof, from our common manured Vetch, but that it groweeh higher, and the fruit « 
bigger and rounder, and of a very cleare white co'our, more like to peafon than Vetches. M'. Ger. 
rardwas wont to call this Vetch by the name of Pifitm Indicant, or Indian Peafe, gotten by him af- 
ter the pnblifhingofhis Herbal!, as M '.Coys reported to me. But the faid M ’.Coy hath in my iude- 
rtient more properly named it Victa facia albo ■ which name I thought moft fir to call it by, onefy 
adding lndica to it, from whence it is reported to haue been gotten. Itd.qo.i 6 ii. 
AJlragalus marinas Lufitanicus Boelij. 
This hath flue, fix, or more mind ftraked reddifh hairy ftalks or branches, of a reafonable big- 
neffe, proceeding from one root, fometimes creeping or leaning neere the ground, and fometimes 
Handing vpright, a cubit high, with many greene leaues, fet by cerraine diftances, out of order 
like thole of Glaux vulgar is, but Idler, euery leafe being compofed of fourteen or more round rop- 
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