white in my Garden, or whiciilr yellow colour in o- 
thers, and the cods, fmooth, (mailer, not hairy, with 
(mailer and blackilh coloured Pea(e within them: the 
roote hereof perifheth likewi(e. 
The Place ar^dTime, 
Eoth the(e Pulfes were brought and (cut me among o- 
ther ieedes by Bocl before mentioned .■ the firft out of 
Spaine , and the other cut of Portugal , andflowredjnthe 
end of Inly, giving their Icedein Angufi and September : 
but as he laid, he gathered the ripe' (cede in April/ and 
dlday, in the naturall places. 
The Names . 
Galen in putting a difference betweene degtM 
and ' - /-C Aracut, and z^lrachtu, .the one with k, the o- 
tlier w:th :, ( and faith that Aradm is a wild weede or 
plague income, and that they pickc it out of the come, 
and cad it away as they doe Securidka, the hatchet Fetch; 
and Thee'ph. is.Htft.c. 10. faith alfo that it is a hard and 
rough thing growing among Lentills ■ but of Aracut hee 
ipeaketh, Uh.de ahmentorum facilitate, in an other place) 
giveth meoccaiion to referre thefe Pulfes thereunto, el- 
pecially becauie judicious Authors have rendered it 
Ctcera in Latine; and Columella faith that Cicera differeth 
not from CicercuU in cade, but in colour, becaufe Cicera 
is darker or blacker than Cicerculd and Pattadrut alfo in 
Mart:o iaith the fame thing ; but Arachus which is ren- 
dred Cracca in Latine,is more like a Vetch,both in grow¬ 
ing and in bearing many flowers in a (pike atthetoppe, 
which this doth not: thus have I endeavoured rodilfin- 
guifli thefe plants, which 1 finde fo many learned Writers 
before me have confounded, but TWoimiu his Aracut 
or Ctc.ra, as I have (hewed you before, pertaineth to an 
other kinde r the firft of chefe tame to me from Tool, by 
the name is in the title, to whofe opinion 1 wholly en- 
cline, having often found him in our naturall fearch for 
fimples in fundry places to be one of Angular judgement ^ - 
j a “ ! ;r Ience . ■ the oc ' ,e r hce f “ c me Of Portugal!,white he had the knowledge of it by Nunner 
JOV e, of rare plants, and therefore according to his title of Legume* pallidum, b e added NordBrandoni, 
name it hath beene knowne to others, and I now thinke fit to referre it to the othew ^ ? 
The Virtues, 
Wee have yet learned nothing concerning their faculties, 
Brandon, 2 
by which 
Chap. XI. 
uArachidnu Cretica. Vnder ground Candy Cicheling Peale. 
Ilflp Hls pul,e ( whlth fo! ‘ the wonderfull growing thereof hath amazed fome, and mad" them fear t, 
vvere hoc mentioned in any former author fas I fhallfhew von bv and hvViYpr-v. / -i , m iea ^ c ' 1 line 
in * b ”V '«* ***■• having on them both Ringed^ 
rniddlc nbbe.endir.g in a claipcr,very like unco Lencillsor Vetches vrrv ra ■ ‘ ccs > a 
another, for fome of them are final! and pointed, others a little round, and fome ltd lies will have bac'r 8 ° n f fr °‘ n 
either round or pointed, and others will have foure : the flowers are of ireddif, n'T it j ° 
) ynts, which afterwad; yecld finall long cods bigger than thofeof Vetches ’where! an ‘ n § ^nglyatthe 
round and very Macke feede: the to ore is compoted oflnyfmaUpods’ ha ! d 
cods, hanging by finall firings, .wherein is contained in .fome one feede, in others two infon e m'°M en i“ 11 
in others pa er, and in others of: differing colours, or partly coloured • each whereof hein 1 a , : 2c ^ c a 
fpnng and beate a plant like the mother. * coionrea , each whereof being planted anew will 
Vo u 2 l; Ar * ih "\M terraftliepmfera Lufttanica. Tortuga! underground Peafe or Cichelinns 
Somewhat like unto the former have we received from/’srtKpaJ'another fort hereof whofe liFi u , 
ding not much above a foote high, lying for the mofl part upon the ground, had many finall narrow 
lereon without order up ro the toppes, where and with che leaves alfo come forth (mail reddilh flow f ^ 
turn; mol,nail & long cods, containing fmal] roundfeed within themitherooelhooteth downr Lh., wh,ch 
hires thereat, and at the head of the roote, asalfoat the other parts fprin» thicke and (lioit whitifii S nnH Vlth r™ ny 
the fight and tafle of the thing ,Tfelfe fSWeeh™ onclp b ? 
but by the fight 'and taft'e oftfi th&g ,7f f" by ^ "T 
l..i., 0, r„ M , , „„ fc c,tfi,)i,r„«,„ s „, 
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