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5. Latbyrur/y'veflru lignopor. 
Our Wood Earth-nut. 
6, 7 err 4 glandts American* Jive Fi/gmumx. 
Virginia Earth-nuts. 
former but the creded {hikes alfo are harder and lye on the ground with foure fmooth long and narrow 
leaves ufiaally and fometimes five on a branch, {mailed at both ends, and one clalper at the end: the flowers are 
purple 01 camion, and the cods arc narrow long and (omewhat browne in the beginning, and paler as they 
grow older, within which ate (mall round feedc no bigger then a Vetch or rather Idle, and of a wan colour, 
this is the Ajlragahet Silvaitctu Thalij. 
6 . Terr*glandes American* five Virginian*. Virginia Earth-nuts, 
Let me ad joyne this plant to thefe two later lorts lor the rootes fake, whereunto in forme they arc mod like, 
although differing in the greene long leaves which are many fer con both Tides of a middle flalke,the maine ftalke ic 
ie'L winding it lelft upon any thin' Itandtth next ttntoit, andrifing from a tuberous browne roote, which mul- 
tiplyerh itfclfcinto fundry others: at the joynts of the dallies with the leaves andin other places of the flalkes 
lit e wife come forth the flowers many danding together (pike-fafhion, of a fallen blu(h colour made almod like 
hoods,which fall away with u, not bearing any fruit, and the leaves and flalkes pcrifhing before Winter, new 
r ailing themfclves in the'Spring. . 
7. Lathjrtu fylvefiriijlore luteo. Tareeverlantng- 
This lamping wilde Vetch or Tare as the country pcop'e call it.becaufe it is the mod pernicious herbethat can 
orotv on the earth,fot cofne or any other good herbe that it (hall grow by,killing and drangling them : it grow- 
tthfomewhat like unto the firff but the leaves are fmaller, the flowers are yellow many upon a Aalkeand after 
fmall round cods with blackifk (mall feede in them : the roote is fmall and rough running infinitely under ground 
nottobededroytd. 
The Place and Time, 
The firfl and fecond are ufually cheridtcd in Gardens for the beauty of the flowers as I faid in my former booke, 
and lik wife hath beene found wilde with us as is before (aid.if it be not the third which is entituled of Dodonaw, 
the (ourth is faid by GwWcogrow in marly places with usas Hamfted, Coume Patkc,&c. but we rather thinke 
it was the next for the rootes of ihofc wee have hitherto found in our woods and hedges (ides have beene more 
wooddy then che other forts,which growing in our Gardens wee have feene to be more tender, and came to us 
from beyond Sea. the lad is found oftener then men would have it,being a plague to Field orOrchard whereinto 
ic once geteeth: they all flower fiom the end of luljr to che end of Attgufi. 
The Names. 
This Pulfe the Greekes call A« 3 v>©- Lathjnu, but is diverfly called by divers moderne writers in Latine, for 
feme call ic Latbyrne five Cucircula and by 'Baulinas Cicercula, by others, Lathyri* as Label,& c. but unfitly for 
Lathyris is generally taken for Spurge, againe Aractej or Ciccr* as Dodomw , yet Tabermontanm to put a diffe* 
rence bet tv erne them calleth them Lathyru legumino[a : c JAlatthiolns calleth the firtlChymeunm, Cafalpinw Ervi. 
Earn, Tragus Pifiim Grtmum , Vuchfim Ervum (yheftre : The fourth is called espies by Fuchfms and Tragus, but 
‘TJeudeaptos by CMatthielus, Chamt balarms by Doden*ns and Tabcrmont*nus,Terrt glaudes by Lobel and Pena, 
