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fownethe fmalltcndrellsattheends of the ftalkes and branches fuftaine them the better: it hath leaves like unto 
the Garden Beane, without any dents on the edges, but fmaller, more at a joynt, and growing clofer: the flow¬ 
ers ftand alfo moreat a joynt, more purplifh and lcfl'er •• the cods fucceeding them, are long and rennd, fmaller 
than the garden kinde, Handing upright, withinwhich are finall round beanes, fome pder or blacker than o- 
thtrs when they are ripe.- the roote perifheth ycarely. Of this kinde there are fome bigger or lefler than 
others. 
2, FabafylveftricGrtasrumfiveFabavetcrum, The old Greekifli Beane. 
IhisGreekifh Beane (hooteth forth two or three long flat (lalkes, with two edges, lying or running on 
the ground, if it have nothing whereon it may rampe or rife, which branch out on every fide in to ftalkes of 
leaves foure ufually fet therconby two and two, with a diftancebetweene them,like unto the Garden Beane, and 
each branch ending ina long clafpertthc flowers are fer fingly at the joyntsof the branches under the leaves,and 
are of a dead or fallen purple colour, with fome palenefle at the bottome of them i after which fuccecdc long and 
fomewhat flat pods, with, two fharpe edges and dented about, alittle hooked or bowing, grecne at thefirft, but 
hlacke and hard when they are ripe, wherein are contained foure or five or more round feede as bigge as Peafe, 
and very blacke, fo that one may well fay they are rather Peafe than Beanes; the roote groweth not deepe, nor 
ia-rewithfotnelVringsorlongfibresthereat, dyingyearcly. 
3. Faba vcterrtmfcrratti fellfi. The Greeke Beane with dented leaves. 
We have had another difference hereof fentusby this name, which oncly fetteth forth the diftinffion be- 
rweene them little differing in any thing elfe. 
The Place. 
The firft (wherefoever it is wilde we know not)we fow it generally through the Land,to ferve hotfes for their 
foode ; the other groweth naturally in S peine from whence Gmlloum Boel font me feedes. 
The Time. 
Thefe flower in July, and their fruit is ripe a moneth or more after. 
The Names. 
This Beane is called iyv& in Greeke, and Totfii in Latine, and in Greeke is added 
unto the other, and Faba Graca in Latine to diftinguifh it from the sy£gjptia, a feracitate dtl'la, fay fome. 
There hath becne much deputation and alteration among our later Writers concerning the Fata veterum or 
asf.ejmrum (jTsxorum , fome referring the delineations thereof to our Garden Beane, but with more words 
than needed, for ti e ancients comparifon of the feede unto that of Lotus, Tercbinthus, and the berries of 
Taxm doth evince all their words and reafons, whereof I doe not intend to fay any more here; for Label and 
L-rgduuenfu have fliewed the errours and miftakings: the firft here fet downe, is the ■Sosayi'ff Phajeha minor by 
T> idsitf.it, Faba minor by Label, and Faba [ylvejlri, by Matthiohu, Camerar'm, Luqdunenfiis, and others: 
the other is the B-ma five Fafelut fylvefiri, by Dodonaus, Faba C/racorum fylveftris’ by Label, Pifa mgr a 
by Camerarius. and Vicia Romans by himalfo •' Our later Herbarifts call it ufually Faba veterum, or gritcorum ■ 
and Lttffdnnenfii Tbafiofus[ylvifirjs, Many worthy families among the ancient Romanes had their names from 
Beanes and Peafe ; and no doubt firft rofe.from their predeceffours, lowing and felling of them, as Fabiw Pose, us 
Qsinttss Fabiist Maximus, or from other accidents,as Tife, Cicere, and divers others; and the ufe.to number with 
Beanes doth continue among the Venetians to this day : it was alfo an ufuaft cuftome in former times in Italy, and 
other places adjacent to chute their Governors by carting Beanes into a Bafon, the affirming party callin'* in a 
white Beane, thofe denying a blacke one; and from hence came the manner of choife of officers in many places by 
the billeting boxe to put in certaine bullets,the greater number in a partition carrying the choife. ' 
The Vert ties, 
The Garden Beanes are with us more ufed for foode than for Phyficke, yet the lefler alfo in many other coun¬ 
tries is ufed with a little Whcateand Rie to makethem bread, and being greene nourifli more than when they 
are drie but are more windy, andca tn after they have heene dried or tried engender lefle winde, but are then 
of harderdigeftion : the diddled water of the flowers of garden Beanes is ufed of many to cler.fe the face and 
rkinne, and to takeaway both (pots and wrinckles, the lame doth the mealeor flower of it, as well as of the 
finall ■ the water diddled from the greene huskes, is held to be very effefhiail againft the (lone, and to provoke 
mine : Geane-flower is ufed inpultiffes that do aft wage inflammations rifing upon wounds, asajfothe fwelline 
of the cods or of womens breads caufed by the curding of their milke, or by inflammations, and repreffctli their 
milke, and keepech backe children from growing too forward being laid to the (bare : if the flower of Beanes 
and Fenugreekebe mixed withhony ,and applied to felons, biles, blew markes by blowesorbruifes, and theim- 
poflumesin thekernclls of theeares; it helpeth them all, and with Rofeleaves, prankinfenfe, and the white of 
an egge laid to the eyes that fwell or glow out helpeth them, as alfo the watering of them, or ftripcs upon them 
ifitbe ufed with wine: if a Beane he parted into two, the skinne being taken away, and then laid on the nlace 
where a Leech hath becne fet thatbleedeth too much, it ftaieth the bleeding : Beane-flower boiled to a pulrifLe 
with wine and vinegtr, and fome oyle put thereto, ceafeth both palne and (welling of the cods: if fried Beanes 
he boiled with Garlike, and daily taken as meate,it helpeth inveterate coughes almolt pad cure,the hoarfenefle of 
the voyce, and theimpoftumesin the bread :the huskes of them boiled a good while in water,that is to the third • 
daierh the laske: the afhes of the huskes made up with old hogges greafe, helpeth the old paines, contufions and 
wounds of the finewes, the Sciatica alfo and the Gout. What hath beene fpoken of the greater, is alfo effccTuall 
ro the lefler Beane without more repetition. The Faba veterum is without doubt that true Beane whichTfio/. 
ceridst, Galen, and other Greeke authors intended when they fet downe all the remedies they fet downe of it • 
and therefore although we ufe our ordinary Beane-flower for all the purpofes, and to good effedf, yet theirs is 
the mod proper, wh ich vertues every one may trie as they fee caufe. 
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