io^2 Chap. 25, 
Theatrum Botanicum. 
Trib S II* 
1 2. 4.. Fcrft cquini diverfiefpecies 
- ' dfhoocVetchc 
Divers Com of Horfe 
m . . t K 
fiift both in (hikes and leaves, and full of branches: from 
the topoes of the ftalkes and branches onely.and not from 
the ioynts with the leaves as in the former, come long 
naked ftalkes almoll halfe a footelong, bearing and 
hanoins downe about their toppes a bufli of flowers,of a 
vellowilh gteene at the fitll & of a deeper yellow colour 
after, with fome greene veines in them-'after they are pait 
there follow fuch crooked and mooned cods as the other, 
but not very deepely cut in, wherein lye feedes like the 
other, the rootc hereof is fomewhat blackilh,but as hard 
and great as the firft. 
5. \Terrum equinum (jaUicttm. 
The French Horfe fliooe Vetch. 
This hath a fmall fliort blacke thready roote and divers 
W eake ftalkes lying on the ground, with nine leaves ufu- 
allv fet together on a footflalke : the flowers arevellow 
many growing at the head, which give lmallfeedein 
fmall crooked homes* 
The Place and Time. 
The fitll and fecond are naturall to our owne Land, 
bein'* often found upon dry heaths as beyond ‘Vetford 
and Sreanes combe in Kent and lundry other places, the 
other three in I tat/, France,&c. flowring in lane and 
feeding in Inly and Augufi. 
The Names, 
1 1 hath no Greeke author to fpeake for it, but being of 
later invention it is generally called Petr*™ equirum, af- 
ter the manner or forme of thecods,in Italian Sferro ca - 
V aUo, and of the Chimicks there and in Germany,LunarU 
fHiqu*t*,’JM»tthioltu calleth the firft Sccuridac* montan* 
as well as Tcrrum equinum, Gefner in turns tooke it to be 
a kinde of Medic*. Lugdunenfts calleth it Sole* equina y' . . .. 
and Tabermcntanut FJedyfarum five Ferrum equinum : the fecond as a leffer fort thereof hath his na • 
Tabus Columna calleth the third Terrum equmum polyceraton, and the fourth ' rH m°! q uinum GM- 
tatftm which Barthitm calleth German cum filicjms tn Tummitate 1 the laft Bauhinw calleth q r { 
c«w,and as he faith is the Lotus enneapbyUos of DaUchamptui, differing but in the fmallnefle from 
°^Uis wholly bitter as the Hatchet Vetch is, and therefore fomewhat pattakethof the properties thereof. it is 
alfo ufed by fome in wound drinke',and the juice thereof to make falves for wounds. 
*. Ornitbepodium The greater Birds toot. 
x, Ornitbopodium ffiinut. 
The letter Birth foote. 
Chap. XXIII* 
Omithopodittw* Birdes foote. 
(Here are two or three ferts of fmall herbes cal¬ 
led Birds foote, unto which I thinke fit to ad- 
joyne fome other fmall plants camming rea¬ 
red to the former it not the nature of them m 
this Chapter together. 
t Orinthopodinm md\w. The greater Birds roote. 
This fmall herbe f although it bee greater then the next) 
groweth not aoove a fpanne high^w.J ^bran- 
ground, fet with ma¬ 
ny w'inges of fmall 
leaves, in manner as 
the laft Vetches but 
much fmaller, the 
flowers grow upon 
the branches, many 
fmall ones of a pale 
yellow colour, being 
fet at a head together, 
which after turne in¬ 
to fo many fmall j'oin- 
tedcods, well relem- 
bling the clawes of 
a fmal( Bird.andfrom 
thence took the name, 
with many fmall 
round feeds in them. 
a, Orni* 
