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s8 Chap.3. 
c [beatrmi Botamount. 
E IBE IX. 
thins touptKM it; ard not above a foote high, whole trefo.le eaves had fhortet feme ftalkea. the flowers 
were white, and the frnit either white, with a blacke fpot.or redd.fh or pale, or elfe cl a fh.n.ng fwart.fh colour, 
wh ch kind as it is mod likely,is the P&pW.br c ° r f ’which he defenbeth in1 the Mfol.o of h,s An¬ 
notations upon ‘Diofier.des, and in the . 17.#* ofhis Hifloty of Plants, although he doth a I. trie vary from him- 
ftlfc in one of theft two places. There hath come likewtfe unto us and others, both from Afnca, Braf.B the Safi 
rndmfi Indies, Virginia, &c. Sundry other forts and var.ee,es which were endlefle to recite, or atleaftuie- 
k Te, but onely to behold and contemplate the wonderfull workes of the Creator in thofe his creatures; LobelA 
O rnaketh mention in the , 95. page of his Adverfafia of many rare vartet.es of thefe kinder of Beanes that the 
I ad v Kiteorew (hewed him, which were taken up, and ycarely gathered on the ‘ea coaBs of Cornwall where ,t is 
not knowne that ever any flrippe was wracked, but as it is thought were driven thither by the wrote from the 
co'fts of Amnia j for the inhabitants thereabouts doe yearely gather new forts, fome floating on the waters, 
others raked from under the fandes of the fhoare, „ 
The Place anaTtmc. 
The fitft heredefetibed grew in the Wefi lnd.es, andfirft grew with Mr. Tradefcant ,yearely flowring in the 
ufuall Seaton, and giving ripe fruit: the lecond here delcr.bcd came from the Magols countr.e m the Eafi hd.es, 
and onely fprang up with us, but continued not. 
The Names. 
IDiofcordes cdletlrthis Smilax horter.fi. quod S milaci, mode confcend.t■Tbeopbraflm andothers 
.,,‘1 0 r a«fome write it oy/xci, Dolichus, aCDolicas, which many Latinc Authours follow : fomealfoa^.c 
an /fl’, l oroe.er r.liquarnmlonMludinem. Some alfo take it to be Dtofcor.des hlseawoAJc, or as Galen wnteth it 
", M ,f. , v | icr f of there hath hcene much controvcrfie among former Writers,as Manhiolus agamfl CMmardw, 
that thought the ’ hafulu, of Dioficrides to be Ervilia ,and the Sm.Ux hortenfis to be the ordinary ?haficl w , 3 s it is 
now adayes fo called, which opinion, howloever Manh.olm contrad.aeth, and would force his owne which 
was Ceriu his alfo for he trueftplm the ordinary white Kidney Btancs were the Pbaf.ol, o ■ D.ofcondesf^h.ch 
can no waves Hand with re Ton, feeing Dicfcorides fetteth his Phafiolw among thofe Pulfes that grow Wilde, and 
befides fault that they are hard of digeftior, and move vomiting, which is not properto thefe kindes, butto 
man" wildeforts of V ulfes, and in the Chapter of Span,urn frutex , compareth the lcedes thereof to thofe of Pba- 
fiolJ a ,,d that his Smilax barters was the other difeoiored forts of Kidney Beanes, but they areas well for 
forme as in effect in my judgement the fame. Another doubt there is with feme, whether Tbeopbrdfim his Do- 
lichu, and ‘mofcor.de. his Sm.Ux hortenfis be but one or divers •, but Cjalen tr.pr.rm al.emetorum hath decided that 
l onc a „ oc where he faith, that becaufe Tbeopbraflus faith his ‘Dolichus needeth long poles or flakes to uphold ic 
that iunav profper, he fnrely delineateth thefe Pbafioli, or Diofcoridts lus Smilax barter,fit: fo that you fee ins 
without doubt that Smilax hortenfis, ‘Tiolicbw, and our ordinary Pbafeolus tote all one : ^owalfom hisfirft 
Booke faith the lame, fob affurediy molcor.de, his Phafiolw is the fame with Galen his Phafelm, which in the 
fame Booke lie joyneth with OchbU ^faking of Phafeolu, afterwards, and Label taketh it to be that Pulfe, which 
is died by Lugdancnf.s Pbaf.olw[jluarum, and by Clnfiut Orobm Pat.nor.kus : Cordus in the places before men¬ 
tioned m&nh Phafelus and l hajiolus tobe but one kinde of plant, and differing from Pbafeolus , which tnoun- 
rcth upon poles, the Phafelm notrifing : Virgil and Columella doeboth make mention of Phafelus as of a (mall 
and vile Pule : Virgil in Cjcorg.fecMr.ao, in thefe words, Stupingucm Vic,am feres , v.lemueThafelum. Dodonam 
1; aketh cur ordinafy garden Beane to be Phafelus major, and the wilde kinde to be Phafelus minor, and faith 
without d ubt they are the right: but by his leave they are not right, wherein J referre me to others judgemenr, 
considering what I have here before written, and efpecially in that the Lentill-Iike leedes of Spartiumfrutex, are 
by ‘D,clear,do. compared to thofe oi'Pbafwlus, when as the lefler blacke Beanes are farre bigger than any Spanifb 
broome feede, or the pods comparable. 
The Vert ties, 
The Kidney Beanes that are n.urfed up with us of all forts, and come to maturity, being of eafie digeflion, and 
hot and moifl m the fitft degree, doe move the belly, provoke uririe, enlarge the bread that is (heightened with 
fhorenefle of breath, engender fperme, incite venery, efpecially ifSugar, Pepper, Genger and Galanga be added 
thereto : for they ate well knowne to mollc' be a familiar difhof meate taken while they arc young, boyled, 
and dewed,or fried, & fome Verjuice putro them,and fpice flrevved thtreomMatthiolus faith, that if the grecnc 
pods be chewed in ones mouth, and applied to any place that is bitten by an horfeit will hclpe : he alfo lhew- 
e th that the Italian dames made a water or fuetts for their faces of the pods and feedes of thefe Beanes, with a 
trefh gourd, crummes of bread, and Goates milke, &c. diftilled. Tlie fifh called Scams ( which is fomewhat 
like a Barbell) as BeUon-us doth fet itdowne in the eight Chapter of his firft Booke ofObfervationsis much de¬ 
lighted to feede upon the leaves of this Pbafeolus or Prench-Beanes,and that therefore the Greekes of Candy that 
dwell neare Milopatamo and Cigalirtas, where this fifh doth abundantly breedebetweenethe rockes, doeufe to 
put the leaves of this Beane into their Weeks, or Bow-nets, as a baite for this fifh, knowing that they can hardly 
betaken by line or hooke bur onely with thisherbe, and therefore in their Language they call it Scarovotamo. 
Chap. III. 
Pifum. Peafe. 
| F all the forts of Garden Peafe, I have fpoken diffidently in my former Booke, there remameth now 
chat 1 fhould (hew you here the wilde kindes which are thefe. 
I. Pifum fjlvejlre primum. The firft wilde Peafe. 
This wilde Peafe doth little differ from the manured, either in ramping cornered [hikes, or in the 
brow utfe grecnc leaves, two alwayes being fet at a joynt, and fixe or more lefler ones on the branches, which 
end in a clafper, the flowers are white, many (landing on a foote ftalke together, which turne into to many cods, 
each muchfmaller than the manured, and the leede within, farre leflealfo, and of nopleafant tallcjt crooteis 
as 
