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gathered it :& is alfo very likely to be the plant, that 'Bauhinus in his SProdromus calleth Cjlauci Lcgnminofc aftrnts^ 
being fent him From Verona by Pm* who called it eAracm Battens, as by comparing may be i'eene. Andhke- 
wifeaslthinkcisthe ViciaSefamaccaApula of Columnar the third is called by Lobel Aftragalrts Syriacus, and 
maybethatof.d»ipwto',r and Cafalpinus, and very probable alfo to be that Afiragalus Diofcoridis that Ramrolfius 
found in Syria, as it is fet forth by Lugdunenfts,md is as he faith called Chrifii ana radix by the Germanes : the fourth 
is the fecond Aftragalns of C lupus and called alfo Alpinus, which Pona calleth Cicer Aftragaloides : Bauhinus alio 
faith it is the Poly gala of Camerarius in his Epitome, but furely his figure doth truly expreife the Glaux vstlgdris 
the fift is taken by Bauhinus to be the AnthjUis clamiculata of Lugdunenfcs, and calleth it Afiragalus Alpinus magno 
florc I adde clavicnlata thereto: the fixt is the third Aftragalns of C/«/T«r,which lome as he faith called Onobrychu, 
but untruly,and grew for fome time with him in the Low countries or JSr/gkvwith the Aftragalns rjAionfpelten- 
fium (which wc^ufuall^ call Hedyfarum minus) but perifhed before his going out of the country, and therefore 
(I beleeve ( 7 «y?ar his judgement herein) could not be the fame, although fomewhat like as Bauhinus thinketh, 
nor is it the Aftraealus purpureas of Lugdunenfis as Bauhinus alfo thought, for that is my feventh here fet downe, 
(flnfius faith the ‘Spaniards called it Terva di Santo Lorenzo : the eight is the fecond Orobus Pamonteus of Clupus, 
called by Dodoneus Aftragaloides, and by Lobel Aftragaloides altera herbaricrum, but Bauhinus not onely maketh 
it his fixt Orobus, but calleth it alfo Poly gala mayor CMafliliotica , and befides referreth it to the Pelygala of Mat- 
thiolus, which formerly he had called Aftragalas,is alfo to the Polygala Valentina Clnfii,but furely Clufias would 
not be fa variable(as Bauhinus fheweth himfelfe in many places) to call one herbeboth Polygala and Orobus : the 
ninth is not mentioned by any before: the lad Lobelia called as is in the title .-but Bauhinus maketh it to bee like 
a kind of Ferrum aqutnum and calleth it Ferro equina qaUico affinu. 
The Venues. 
The true Aftragalns is as Diofcorides and Galen fay allringent, and that the roote taken in wine (layeth the laske 
and doth alfo provoke urine, itdrveth andclofethup old Vlcers if the powder bee ftrewed or cad into them, it 
doth alfo day bleeding, P/i»raddeththatit is very profitably ufed againfl the foulenefle of the gutr.mes. But 
C in fins faith that the Portugalls doe familiarly ufe the fixt fort here <« forth,being ftrfl: dryed in an Oven and 
powdered,to call it into wounds and Vlcers. 
Chap. XXI. 
Hedyfarumfive Securidaca. Hatchet Vetch. 
i He ancient writers exhibited but one fort hereof which is the greater, our later have added divefs more 
Yoa as fbe declared : that which is ufualiy called Hedyfarum clypeatum I have deferibed in my formec 
\f'$) (if Booke, yet I thought good to give you the figure of it here. 
I. Hedyfarum majus Jive Securidaca vera mayor. The greater Hatchet Vetch, 
The greater Hatchet Vetch (which is the trueif the reft being but fuppofed from the likenelle) growethnot d- 
Heiyfrrumclypeatum vulgar u, 
French Honyfacklc. 
Hedyfarum major jive Securidaca rnajcr vert. 
Tlic greater Hatcher Vuchor Sicklewcr:. 
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