7- Astragalus purpurcus montcinus. The purple mountaine Milfcc Vetch- 
3. AftragaUis SyriAcM. 
Milke Vecch of 
The Syrian milke Vetch hath fuch like 
vveake ftalkes lying on the ground, or 
not riling much above it, and winged 
leaves alio, but (mailer and (hotter; the 
flowers are larger, and growing into a 
thickerbufli, of an’excellent red colour 
very beautiful!, 'the roote is great and 
tliicke, Iprcding about. 
4. Aftrngalus Alpinm, 
Mountaine Milke Vetch. 
This hath from a (ingle roote divers 
(lender ftalkes fometimes (landing up¬ 
right, and other whiles leaning downe; 
the leaves are longer, but more fparingly 
fetonthe middle ribbe than theCicers, 
and not dented at all about the edges, but 
very ncare refembling thofc of the firft 
wood Orobwi ; the flowers are like to the 
Vetch or Cicer, of a blewifti purple co¬ 
lour : after which come long pods like 
to Vetches ; the roote is tuberous or 
knobby, blacke and hard, with other fuch like fmallcr peeces growing unto it, fattened by long firings, this 
difFereth much from ihzCbavttbalaKtis oxTerraglandes , which is accounted by Cetemna , for the true Arachidna 
of Tb opbraftus. 
5. Aftragaltts AlpinusClaviculatM magno fiore, (great fiowred mountaine mike Vetch. 
This hath a long thicke, blacke, woddy roote two foote long, with fome fibres thereat, divided above into 
thicke fcaly heads, from whence rife fundry long winged fmall leaves lying onthe ground,like unto thofe of 
I-entills: the flowers are large and grow many together at the toppes of naked ftalkes, of a yellow colour, faith 
Luaduner.ps of his, but Haubinus faith, that that which grew with him (if it were the fame ) was of a purple 
colour; after whom fellow fmall, long, blacke pods, with a fmall twining thread at the end like a clafpers. 
6. Aftragates 
