1070 Chap.IX 
Tbeatrum ‘Botanicum, 
Tribs H. 
, , , ^racWrfMCrrtiraHmcryleft: Satle’ra fits- 
aw {lt a Luft anna ,& Am eric am mi’™- 
Vndcr ground Peufe or Cichelings of Candy, Putugau, 
and a great kinde of America. 
It both ends, or a little hooked at the lower end, of a 
lullen whitifh colour on theoutfidc.flriped, and as it 
were wrincklcd,bunching out inco two pares,where the 
two nuts (for they are bigger than any Filberd kernellj 
or Peafe doe '.lie joyning clofe one unto another, being 
fome what long, with the roundneflc firme and folide, 
and ot a darke reddiih colour on the out fide, and white 
within tailing fweec like a Nut,but more oily. 
1 be T l ac e and Time. 
The firlt was lent out of Ccmdj by Honerm Tlellus, r 
who found it growing there amongcorne & Pulfe.unto 
JPannes Pona of Verona, who lec 1C forth in the defec¬ 
tion of CAiomt Baidas , and flowred in the end of Su m- ^ 
tner, as the fecond did that was fent us from Lubone by „ 
Bess'im, and the lafl groweth in moll places of America 
as well to the South, as Well puts thereof, both on tht* 
maine and Hands. 
The Names. 
The firlt is truely taken by Be Hun. aforefaid, to be the 
Araehidna (or ^Arachjdna as Colnmna hath it) or ™ 
demise i©-, Aracoides, or Araco fismdi, of Theophra- 
flas mentioned in his firlt Bookeand eleaventh Chap- 
ter, no other plant yet knowne, agreeing fo rightly. 
thereunto, and deferibethit, but the fruit groweth as 
much neeie under the ground joyning to the ftnall 
fibres thereof as above : and yet he there iaith alfo, that 
neither of thim bea-e any leafe, nor any thing like 
leaves: which how this can hand with fence andrea / 
fonlknownot. and therefore many doe fufpefttht' 
text to be fiultie, or elfe he is contrary tohimfelfe, for 
he faith they beare nolefTc fruit underground thana- 
have and then they muft beare fruit above ground, 
which how it can be without leaves I fee not, for I ne¬ 
ver read heard, or faw, that any plant bore fruit above 
ground without llalkes and leaves; the companfon uu- 
htw“ mh^S with the hint on them when the(hikes ar.d leaves were 
b- rather this Araehpdna, both from the (olid rootes under ground.and tlieUkeneffe of the Jt«» jn bearjn „ 
furely it may be that both thefe were meant by Tbeophrssflus, for he maketh two Ions, and S 
lively UU y Arachidaa and Araco Rmilu or Aracoides : and we have alio two plants, as 1 nereincw 
vrTrt" before th"ter it,un£ which they may be referred: the other two forts ~kd 
:£ei fi tell for them : the Candies, as Bellas faith, call the fitfl AgnofU,; the iecond was fent 
me bv the name of Lathynu fui seer a fihcjssifei a ; the lafl is generally called by our Enghfis Sea-men t a g 
thof/parts Earth-nuts, erronioufly enough, as they doe moll other things that they there meete wi . 
‘ The Vertues. 
There is no propertie found out wherewith this is invefied that vve can underhand of as yet. 
Chat. XII. 
Amelias five Cracca. Wild Vetches 01 Tates. 
§ F thefe wilde Vetche there is a greater and a leffer knowne differing from the manured kinde, otthofe 
1 .iSERil referred thereunto, whereunto I adjoyne another (franger. 
w All ,. dachas five Craccami\ir. The greater wtlde Vetch or Tare. 
This greater kind of wilde Vetch hath _a few (lender eroded (hikes lying on the ground, 1 « t '™ e bo[ * 
thing whereon ro rampe, or take hold of ; at thejoynts come forth winged leaves, "n, flowers are 
fidcsof a middle ribbe ending in a clafpcr.but leffer than thoff of Lentills, or the mauured Vetch the 1 ^ 
purple like the Vetch, and grow ufually but one at a joynt, after which come (mail longblaeke cods, I H 
Vetches, and foisthefeede within them, burround, andnotflat as Vetches are : therootets fm - F 
s. Arnchus five Cracca minor. The leffer wilde VetchorTare. . , , 
This other wild Vetch differeth in no other thing from the former but in fmalneffc, except mat tms 
tilh flowers (landing in tufts at the toppes of the (hikes,and the cods that follow arc (hotter 
and the feeds within whitilh; the roote hereof hath fmall whitifh kernells hanging among ^ 
