T R IB E II. 
The Theater of Tlants. 
Cha 
rv.17. 1070 
Ervura/ylveitrefive Cuianan6e a 
Wild glaffe leafed Orehus. 
lowing him fay it is kfler, I have alwayes found it 
to bee rather larger then Iefler.yet there is fo little dif¬ 
ference betweene them,that but for the names fake of 
Candy,l would make them both but one kind without 
divcrtitic o!'pecirs, . 
3. Cicer Orobseum. Cornered Orobus. 
Divers would rather make this a Cicer than an Orobus, 
and indeed t Label and Tcna much doubted, whether 
they fhould call it the firft of 'Dtofcerides his Cicers, al¬ 
though they were confident that it was Pliny his Cicer, 
that was the fweeteft and likeft to Orobus: but I rather 
referreittothekinds of Orobus from the forme of the 
cods more like to Orobus whofe defeription is thus. It 
nferli up with a crooked or leaning hollow ftalkc halfe 
a yard high and full of (oynts fee with many leaves on 
each fide of a middle ribbe,which arefomewhat long 
like to thofc of the Lentill ; at the j'oynrs, towards the 
top come forth long footftalkes.with many flowers fet 
on them clofe together, which after give long and 
round cods,bunched out and dented in betweene where 
thefeedes lyetwifeas bigge as thole o(Orobus a little 
cornered and not fo round, of a pale or yellowifh 
colour and differing little from them but in the darke 
colour. 
4. £rvum fylveftre five Catanance. 
Wilde grafie leafed Orobus. 
This wilde Pnlle hath furidry branches riling from 
the roore neare two foote high efpccially if i c g row 
in any fertile foilc, befet unorderly with many long and 
narrow darke greene leaves.- mallcr then divers graffes, 
at the toppes of the fialkes and branches grow pretty 
large Peafe Blofibm’d flowers of an orient fhinin» 
Crimfon colour, after which come (mail (lender long 
and almoft round cods, conteining within them divers 
hard blackiftt-feede : rheroote is long andfiender, with 
fome fibres thereat,and perifliethevery yeare as I gheffe 
by thofe that grew in my Garden from the (cede fow- 
en, whereof (ome bore white flowers and then pe- 
riflied cowards Winter. 
7 he Place and Time . 
The two firfl are onely nourfed up in Gardens with us, the fecond being naturall of Candr : the third as Label 
a I S r . oweth WI J d "fNarbone and Province in Frauce ; the laft is ufually growing in the fields about the hedtr-s 
and bulhes towards High, gate,P anertu Church, Sec. and ate all flowting and feeding in the end of Summer. 
The Names, * 
T his is called in Greeke -e? -G probus irsej. li 6cc7rTcfb5 wto tfi' PoZ\,quoi boves eo fstgmentur as Galen faith in T a- 
title Ervtem and Orobus alio : the firft is called Orobus five £rvum by CMatthiohu *("who faith it was but latelu 
m his time made knowne in Italy) and by moft other writers, onely Dodoneus calleth it Cicer fativum and AdZ 
thru when as Mochm jndeede is this Orobus but not Cicer, calleth it Orobus nentm herbm-uram bcr-iiff-' 
the generall vote of thefe later, times doth fo call ic not having found or knowne any tiuer: the ferond’is nlkrJ 
Orobus Crcncus by Matthiolus, as if it differed from the former,but isnotfo as I have flrevved in the difrrinrirm 
beforerthe til ird is called by Label Cicer Orobxnm TheophraJli.Sc by B.ittkinus Orobus femme obtufo trianoub The 
laft is called Cat,trance by Gefner inhortis.by Bodonseus in his French Herball and LucdmcrSis : but Srvum ?rlve- 
Jtre by Bodonseus in his Lacine Femptacies and Crvum fylveflre herbariorum by Lobeh, but why Bauhirms (hould 
call it Lathyrus fylvcjbis minor I fee no caule feeing it is not like any of the other nor hath no clafpers as all the 
other Lathjri he there expreffeth have, and befides breaketh that order hehad propofed to foilow'namelv m 
let downe all fitch Pulfes as had clafpers in the firft place,and then thofe thac had none, a id yct.tbis haviW none 
is put above among thofe that have.bccaufc he would vary the title if he could by any mcanes: It is called by the 
Arabians Srbum Keifene or Kerfer.e , by the Italians Ervo , by the Spaniards Iervos, by the Fiencb £rs, and wee i 
F.xgUJh may call it the bitter V etch, for P liny confounds this with Vicia theVecch, and from the quality of bk 
rernefie which the ancients fay is in it, although ours have little that can be perceived; or Orobuf alter the r, 
tmeifyou will. ^ ■ 
The Verities, 
Orobus is dry in the fecond degree and hot in the firft,. and by the bitterneffe cutteth clenfeth and openeth oh- ■ 
ftruftions, and was ufed in Galens time as hee faith to be fteeped like Lupines (and that was to take out the bir- 
ternefle) before they were eaten by men or given to their beafts, and that but in a dearth and great neceflrie 
becaufe they are not onely very unplcafant to the tafte but be of bad nouriftrment. Wee ufe Sikh Galen the Ore' 
us with Hony as a medicine Co clenfe the breaft and Lungs of thicke humors that offend them, the manner of 
f a l ,cient4 ' preparation of the meale thereof was in this manner : being fteeped in water a good while they after 
ryed or parched them unti l the nudes broke, which then being ground and paffed through a boulter they keepe • 
^sme^asofgreatufe, both to move the belly downe wards and to provoke urine, and to cat, fe them that. 
1 1C10be 013 good colour, yet if it be two largely taken it caufeth headach and paines in the belly, and caufeth 
Zzzz 2 hlooddy 
