6 . AJlragahts pmpxreo ttarnltut Hijp atticw', 
Purple Spam# Milke Vetch. 
The Spaniards, faith Clufttu, held another plant to be 
AJiragalus which anfwcred thereto in the faculties, but 
differing in the forme of the roote, it had many fhort and 
hard hoarie flalkes growing r.earc the ground, with fmall 
winged leaves like unto Cicers orlentills, all hoary like- 
wife, and of an aftringent tafle ; the flowers arefmall, 
growing in thicke tufted heads, ofa blcwifli purple co¬ 
lour: the roote,faith C/uJius is ulitlly but Angle,and no way 
agreeing with the roote of Astragalus. 
7. Afiragalw purpureas moitntatitu. 
The purple mountaine milke Vetch. 
This milke V etch hath a great long wooddy roote, with 
fome fibres let thereat, blackifli without, and white 
within, from whencerife many bard flalkes, [fome lying 
as it were upon the ground, and others handing upright 
about halfe a foote high, the winged leaves that grow thereon are many, fmall and hoary, (bill keeping'an equal! 
number, upon every foote [hike, fomewhat refembling the Afiragalw Syriacw but longer, the flalkes arenaked 
or bareof leaves from the middle upward, favingafew, that under the tuft of flowers atthetoppes are round, 
and are like unto other Pulles, of an excellent purple colour, and the leede follow in fmall cods: itflowrethin 
Afar and /»*e on the high bills of Seven*,but moll plentifully need a fmall towne called CMcrnts in the grove 
of wood next unto ir, inhorto del, and the hills neeretl thereto about Mompelier : it is utterly without any fnarpe 
tefle and but onely a little faltifh that can be felt. 
* 8. ^Aflragaloides sberbareorum, Bafe milke Vetch. 
The bafe milke ' etch rifeth up with fundry upright hard crefted flalkes, a yard high fet on all (ides with win¬ 
ced leaves foure or five couple againll the middie ribbe, with anodde one at the end, ofa very fad greene colour, 
no bigger than thofe of the Lentills: the flowers (land at the toppes of the flalkes and branches many fit together 
which are fmall and Chore, of a dead purpliih colour turning wanne with (landing, and change into fmall blacke 
cods almoil round ; but pointed, within which are foure or five lfnall blackifh leede : the roote groweth great 
and thicke at the head, tough and wooddy, dilcending deepe, and abiding many yeaves, but all the flalkes perith 
every yeare, ftefh riling in the Spring. 
9. AJIrafraloidss Helveti£ % Germane bale milke Vetch. 
The (lender flalkes of this plant, that beare many Peafe bloffom’d flowers at the toppes of them, arc not much 
above three inchts high without any leaves upon them; the leaves themfelves_ (landing (ingly upon long foote 
flalkes being fomewhat long, broad, and round pointed, as the figure doth plainely delineate forth. 
’ The Place and Time,' 
None of thefe grow wilde in our land, that ever I could underlland, but are nui-fed up with thofe that are cu- 
riouslover of rare plants: they flower in July, and their feede is ripe in Augufi or September. 
The Names . 
It is called deesiya^ in GrccVe,md Afiragahs in Latinc: the firfb is called by Cty> M Afiragalta Bsticiu, and 
by Zofc/and others Afiragalas Ltljitanicm Clufij ,by Hellas that fencic out c>f ^andy to £V»Ji»r,as it is fit downe in 
his fife EpidlePhafeoli novttmgenus,is Clufius in his Seek* under it thinketh,which I can not fully cvince.noc ha¬ 
ving feene either of them (if they be divers as I thinke they be)growing: but Bellas there relateth thac the feede 
was flat like unto a Kidney Beane,and that the Martinets did eate them white they were greene ; andC 7 «/?«r faith 
of hi* that the cods arc long,and the feede round within them, burning and enflamir.g the mouth, for which cattle 
it is probable that Amatus Lufitanns called it Apocynum’tc the Spaniards Atramofosdecants being fit to^kill dogs^ 
fothat thefe contrarieties doe rather argue them to be divers plants: the fecond was brought me out of Spain* by 
Boel y by the name expreffed in the title, but came to us alfo from Leyden |by the name cf Ajlragalus marinas 
*P«Hrpnj .either becaufcP*#*?;#/ the Prcfident of the Garden there had it from Botl } or from Spuine^ wher z Beel 
gathered 
