3- AtUchfU lndicmfsve Africamu. Coral! beadcs of gurney. 
This brave plant too tender for cur climate growerh like the former but with more (lore of leaves and (lowers 
and fruit, ten or twelve growing together in thicke.fhort and rough brownifh red cods, the Pcafe within being 
roundilh and as red Aiming as if they were pohfhed Corail beads, but with a blackc (pot on the one fide as hard 
almoll as a (lone,and enduring being (Irong for braceletsa long time. £»*e/long before CUfiw fee out this plant 
whole pod with the feede being miffet is in the next Chapter. 1 3 
The Phcecmi Time. 
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Potli thefe forts are often found in the fields among Corne, where they will in a rainy time quickly over (pread 
and choke the Corne or any other herbe it groweth by.they flower in lull and gtveth feede prefemly after the 
other came out of Africa towards the Indies, ’ 
The Name?. 
This is tightly adjudged to bei'evjgc Arachm of Galen and the other old (ft cun writers, and hath his name ac 
cording to his nature,for as Label dehneth it a s«’{« atsaf pefies pcrniciefque legummofe fiuei, unde a, . j he two 
firft are generally called by all authors Aracm or Cracea except Tragus who calleth them Kcics major and miner 
or quart* and and Dodmaus that thinketh it may be that kind of Pulfe growing among Coroe which the 
Greches ralUf.«( Arachit, and contelhcth againfl Fuchfitts and others that called it Cracea the efpeciillnote 
faith he of difference from the other forts of Vicia is that this feede is exquifite round and all other (orts of Fetches 
fomewhnflat : the laft is mentioned byClufius in his fourth booke of Exoticks and 15 .Chapter bv the mine of 
Victa African^ and Lob el T'lfnm Coccincum Amtricum. r y * 1 
The Vertuej. 
The properties of thefe are referred to the other forts of Fetches and therefore I (hall put you over to the end 
of the next Chapter robe informed thereof toavoyd a double recitall of one and the fame thing, onelv this is a 
ccrtame knowne: Pulfe to Doves wherewith they are much delighted, and although they be wild,yet where the 
Dove houfes are ferved herewith they alfo will refort and become tame with the reft,and therefore fomccoun- 
trey people knowing it fow fome fields therewith to ferve to that ufe. 
Chap. XIII. 
Vicia, Vetches or Tares. 
He Vetches are of divers forts.fotne manured or fowen,others wild growing in woods or hedges be- 
tides thofe before fpecified which fhall be declared in this Chapter. = 
I. Vicia vulgaris fat iva. The manured Vetch or Tare 
^ The manured Vetch or Tare hath divers fquare flalkes riling fomerimes two footihigh, entang- 
lmg themfclves one with another that they Hand in the field without neede of any other proppe, the 
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