1 060 Chap. 3, 
Tbeatrum Botanicum. 
Trib* ii. 
4. Pifum (pontatjeum marilimum A^licum, 
Wilde Englijb Sea peafe. 
5, P if urn aliud maritimm Britawcm. 
Another Sea Pcafc. 
7 'he Place, 
The f\rflis often found in fiindry places of this Land: the fecond on the chalkie hills at Kings Haj in Iynt, not 
farre from the Thames, and the larger fort hereof in Lome barren fields in Zftx-.tbe third in Spaine the fourth m 
Kent alio neere Rttmnr, : the faff was firlt made knowne in the yeare 15 5 5 being the third yeare of QueeneM«rjr 
to the Counrrv dwelling thereabouts,that is betweene Orford & Albomugb, where it grew upon the baich of the 
fea, wherenothing.no not graffe was ever Ceene to grow.and by the dearth of that yeare the people in necellitie 
of foode,fearching every w here to take what came next to hand ( for as it is laid many were forced at that time 
to make their bread of Acornes)gathered many quarters full of thefe Peafe to ferve their ufe; yet did the neigh¬ 
bouring people acknowledge that they had oblervcd and knowne them to grow there of long time before that 
deare yeare, Mr. Stow in hisCronicle, and Mr. Camden in his Hritamca, pag. 354. make mention of thcle Peale, 
but both Rumble at oneftone, that thefe might come thither by fome fhipwracke, which cannot be fo : and Mr. 
Stow more efpecially in faying the rootes are great and I weete, for that it i sfnigenerii, a fpeciall kmde differing 
from all other of that kinde; and as it is probable naturall only to thole places about the Sea fhoare, tor it is found 
alfo ai Rie,a: Ptmfic\n Snpx,at Cilfordvn J<r<)>r.cveragaiiiR the C«w£cr,and at lngolne Millet in Lmcholne (hue : 
Mr, John Ament Dr. of Phyficke.of the Colledge in London, brought from thence alfo the whole plant, luch as you 
fee is herd figured, which he gave ro Dr. Label in his life time, to be inferted in his Workes, but he prevented by 
death failing to performe it, I have by pui chafing his Workes with my money here fupplied. 
The Time. 
Thefe flower and beare their fruit with the later kinde of Field Peafejbut the laflflowereth in the end of Ittlj , 
and hath both blowne flowers, and ripe cods in the end of A'tgnji, andblofl'omes alfo not halfe forward to 
blow. The Name,, 
Peafeare called in GreckemW, inLatine Pifum-, the names in their titles are fufficient to diftinguifh them, 
for except the firfl, none of thele have beene mentioned by any former Author: the Italians call them PiJeUt ; the 
French DepoB, the Germanes Erbfz, 
TheVertues. 
Peafe are lefle windy than Beanes, but paffe not forth of the body fo foone as they: if the wilde kinde be boy- 
led in Lye, and the head wafhed therewith, it clenfeth Jt from feurffe and fcabbes: the fame alfo clenfeththe skin 
of fpots: the mealc of them, and Barley mixed with honey anduled, healetb foule ulcers j and the meale doi e< 
in water with Vetches, breaketh tumours, and eafeth their paines being applied. Camerar w faith, that in Pratt- 
co*ia, they call it Daringicht kraut, and ufe to take fome of the Peafe againft the collicke : and apply the herbe 
outwardly and give it their cattle alfo for the fame purpofe, that is, if they vent much. 
