flower: but this leflergroweth very low, not shove an 
hand breadth high; the leaves likewife are (mall and 
narrow, the flowers are fmall, and of an excellent crim- 
fon colour, the feede veflells that follow arc flat and 
rough, containing fmall feede within them, the rcote is 
thicke and threaddy. 
8 , Onobrychis clypeata Uvit . 
Small buckler Fetchling 
This fmooth Fetchling rifeth up but wi honeffalke, 
or two at the molt a fuote high, fet with joynts, where 
(land winged leaves, confiding of many fmooth long 
leaves, and an odde one at the end: from the joynts of 
the leaves, fpring up fmall and long (hikes, whereon the 
flowers Hand in a fpikefafhion, of a blewifh purp'e co¬ 
lour, and have afterwards flat and fmooth huskes buckler 
fafliion, three for the molt part Handing one above an¬ 
other,with fmall feede within them. 
g. Onobrychismimma. The lead Cockes-head. 
This fmall plant, Pena faith,he found on the hills of P'o. 
KMicf.with a fmall roote downeward, but thicke at the 
bead,and a thicke barke.having many hairy dalkes,two or three inches long, with fmall leaves on them like unto 
Lentills or Afiragalsts, hoary,hard,and bate towards the toppes,aud many fmall pale yellowidi white fiowci s let 
together in a tuft of a drying taftc, like Birds footc. Label in Adversaria calleth it Aftragalus per fmilts palmario 
puJillaplaHta, 
The Place and Time. 
The fird groweih under hedges, and fometimes in the open fields, in divers places of our Land, but all the red 
arc ftrangers and kept in (Sardens with us, by them onely that are curious confervers of rare plants: 3 nd flower 
from the end of/ave to the end of Augujl, and the feederipeneth in the meane time. 
The Ntimes. 
It is generally taken now adayes by all thofc that are j'udicious Herbarifts to be the O': hSfoyj: Onobrychis of Died 
[corides,mdCaputgatinaccssm in Latine.'thefil'd is called OnobrychisbyDodonxtss,Clu[ms.Tha/ius ,and it my others, 
Gefnerin hortis calleth it Glauxfive Onobrychis, Label Caput gaVinaceum B c/gar urn, Lugdirnen (is iaith it was called 
Poly gala by many, the leffer hereof is called by Bmhinus in Prodrome Caput ga/linaceum minus: the (econo he e is 
the fird Onobrychis Pannonica with C lupus, which Ponn in the description oft Mount Taldui calleth ( icer Aflraea- 
loides : the third isthefecond with him :the fourth is his third: the fife is his fourth Onobrychis , and the fixe his Arc: 
the feventb is, as I Laid before. The leffer fort of that Hcdyfarum clypeatum of Label, that I have (et forth in my 
former Booke, being generally fo called now adayes with mod ; and which Dodontus calleth Onobrychis altera: 
and Camerarius Secnridetca clypeata j but Bauble us calleth it Onobrychis clypeata afjserat minor, as he doth the next, 
Onobrychis clypetite levis ; the lad is called by Lobel, as I faid, Aftragalop/anta perjimilis. The Italians calht Von- 
paria di Maghi ; the French Saint fain: and we in Snglijb Cockes-head or Medickc Fetchling. 
The Venttes. 
Galen faith hereof that it hath a power to rarefic and diged, and therefore the greene leaves bruifed and laid as 
a plaifter difperfeth knots,nodes,or kernells in the flefh, and if when it is drie it be taken in wine; it helpeth the 
fttangury, and being anointed with oyle it provoketh fweate, Diofcerides and Pliny faith, the fame things, and 
therefore neede not be repeated: it is knownc generally tobea Angular foode for cattle to caufe them to give 
{lore of milks. 
