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io88 Chap.21 . 
Ebeatrum Botanieum. 
RIB I II. 
i. Hedyfarua minus. 
The Idler Hatchet Vetch or Sicklcvyotr. 
bove a foote high, with divers winged leaves grow¬ 
ing on the flalkes, which are weake and not (lan¬ 
ding upright, each of the leaves is fmall not very long 
and round at the end, at the coppe ftand many fmall 
yellow flowers (Matthiolus faith reddifh but I thinke 
he was therein miftaken as he was alfo in the pods to 
lay the ends were blunt) which turnc into (o many 
long flat thin cods and reddifh,with a fmall crooked 
point: the feede is flat and reddifh within them, io 
lying in them that they may be difeerned in the cod 
where they lye, but not like an Hatchet as many have 
fet itdownc, thinking it therein to agree with Dio- 
J~corid.es his dilcription,for he doth compare the whole 
cod and not the leetle thereunto: the root is fmall and 
perilheth yea rely. 
z, Hedy far am minus jive Securidaca minor . 
The Idler Hatchet Vetch or Sikcle-wort. 
The Idler Hatchet Vetch is like unto the former 
butfomewhat le(Ter,yet not much lower if it grow 
in any good ground,the flowers grow many together 
of a pale yellow colour, and after them come fmall 
crooked cods bowed as it were almoft together, 
wherein lie pale browne feedes not fully round buc 
lquareand lefler, the rootc hereof likewile perifheth 
yearely with us. 
3. Securidaca major articulata. 
The greater joynted Hatchet Vetch. 
This Plant groweth greater and higher then the 
two former, and fo are the winged leaves more in 
number and lomewhat larger: from the joynts rile 
long flalkes with a great many flowers at the toppes of them, fmelling fome\vh 3 t ftrongj ofblufh and white 
mixed together, after which follow long round and not flat cods, a little hooked with divers joynts as it were, 
or bunched places like the true Orobtu, wherein lye red feede lomewhat long: the roote creepeth farre abroad 
and perillieth not. 
4.. Securidaca articulata minor. The lefler joynted Hatchet Vetch. 
This Icffcr is like the former, buc lower and lefler in flalkes, and fewer alfo in leaves upon the middle rib; 
the flowers alfo are fmaller,but as many or more growing together at the toppes of the flalkes that rife from the 
joynts of the lcaves,and are of a pale red or blufli colour, in their places grow fmall round heads with crooked 
rappes much refembling a Billhooke, fuch as labouring countrey men doe ufe to cut their hedges withall; 
wherein lyeth but one feede as having but one bunch : the roote is hard and woody Iprcading under ground 
and endurcth long. * ' 
5. Securidacaperegrina Clujii. Strange Hetchet Vetch. 
This flranger groweth lower then any of the former being not a foote high with divers winged fmall branches, 
bearing fomeluch like leaves on them but fmaller,and at the toppe fundry fmall whitifh flowers, and after 
them long broad thin and flat cods waved in on both edges,wherein lye divers flat btowne feedes: the roote 
is (mall and flringy perifliing yearely. 
6 . Securidaca minima. The leaft Hatchet Vetch. 
This lead fort hath flalkes a foote longfpreadon theground, having divers leaves fet on a ftalke,buttheend 
li 3 th ahvayes three (landing together, it hath many flowers on a ftalke : the feede is reddifh and biforked, lying 
in very fmall hooked fliort codsflriped overthwart,this groweth by Mompeher. 
7. Hcdyfarum argenteum Creticum. White Hatchet Vetch of Candy. 
This (Jandiot rifeth up with a (lender ftalke, branching forth on all (idles and winged flalkes of leaves thereon, 
fomewhat like to thofe of the Ciche Peafe : the flowers grow at the toppes many on a bufh or round tuft toge¬ 
ther, nearc refembling thole of the medow Trefoile, of a white (ilver like colour of a reasonable good lent,after 
the flowers are pad there (ucceede in their places fmall (lender cods, wherein are conteinedthe (eede which is 
ftnall and round : the roote confifteth of many firings and fibres which abideth many yeares: and holding greenc 
leaves al! the Winter. 
8. SopheraJive Egjptiaca vitiofa. The dangerous Hatchet Vetch of Egypt. 
Honorius BcUm in his fourth Epiftle to Clujius which is fet at the end of his rariorum plantar# bijloria, faith that 
Alpime* hath erred in fecting forth the Figure of this plantf which yet in want of a better I am faine to ufe)in that 
the leaves on every ftalke are even wirhout any odde one at the end,and that the pods do grow upright and do not 
hang downe: It is,faith he,a goodly fhrubby plant, rifingt\vo 01 three cubits high, fpreading fundry branches 
of winged leaves (tt one againft another, and doling themfelves every night, opening with every mornings 
Sunne: the flowers are yellow and the pods long and (lender (landing upright and of a fingers length : the rootc 
is wooddy, divers wayes difperfed under ground but abideth with greene leaves all the Winter,and abideth long 
with the flowers thereon. 
One very like hereunto we have received from Virginia^ by the name of Lenti/ls of Virginia , but that this hath 
every joynt with the leaves a fmall harmelefle pricke,which quickly falleth away from the lower and elder 
parcs,abiding oncly a while on the upper and more tender flalkes. 
9 * Sejban (ive Securidaca Egyptian articulata. Hatchet Vetch of Egypt with long joynted cods. 
this kindc of Pulfe groweth fomewhat like a fhrubbeui the hotter countries, with fundry hard and wooddy 
(lender 
