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Of Seeds. 
Part II. 
The CODS of the wild WO AD , ( Glafti Sylvefiris) 
together with the Seeds therein contain’d. 
A {mall SPIRAL FRUIT. Above an inch long, and i 
over. It confifteth of five little Cods, all growing upon 
one Stalk, and thence twilled all together (as feveral 
firings in a Rope) are at the end united in a {lender point 
The WATER-CALTROP. Tribute aquations. De¬ 
fended in Baubinus. A kind of fbelly Fruit of a brown 
colour 5 divided into four thick and fharp-pointed Spikes, 
quadrangularly. In the centre of which is lodged a white 
and well tailed Kernel. They grow in the Rivers and 
Lakes m Italy and Germany. Where, in times of fcarcity, 
the people make Bread of the Kernels. 
Some EARS of Tangier WHEAT. Given by the Ho¬ 
nourable Charles Howard of Norfolk. Efq ; . The Plant 
deferibed in Baubinus by the Name of Triticum cum mul¬ 
ti plici Spied For it is a great broad Spike, as it were 
branched out into feveral little leffer ones 5 yet all clofely 
compacted: in the middle 1 inch thick, and an inch and 1 
broad 5 four long, and iharp pointed. 
Some more EARS of the fame fort, brought from Por¬ 
tugal where it grew. 
CHAP. III. 
Of SEEDS. 
He THICK FRENCH-BEAN. Pbafeolum maxim* 
tumidum. An inch and ? long, I broad, and I an inch 
thick. The feat of the Bean , or of its Plancentula , that is } 
the part whereon it grows, as long ; of a brown colour, 
with a black rimni. 
The {lender FRENCH-BEAN, of feveral fizes and 
colours, fc. Red, Black, White or Alh-colour, and the fame 
fpoted with black. Although thefe are quite different from 
the Fabaceous kind, yet I have retained the Englifh Name, 
becaufe in ufe. 
The ROUND fcarlet Pbafeolus. Abrus coccineum majus. 
Baubinus (a) deferibes it under the Title of Pifum America- 
num j improperly, for that the Peafen , and the Phafeolous 
kind, 
