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within them: the roote confifteth of fmall ftrings and fibres: Alpiuiu callcch it Trifolium falcatum, but becaufe I 
findc both this and the laft better to agree in face with tAntbyUu have therefore put than together. 
5. Stella Legnminofa. The ftarre codded Pulle or Birds roote. 
This ftarre fafhioncd Pulfe groweth aho about halfe a foote high with uptight (hikes, whereon are many win¬ 
ced leaves fet confiding of very frnall leaves like unto the Birds foote, from the j'oynts of the (hikes 
with the leaves come a tuft of frnall pale yellow flowers atthetoppesof fmall prickly fading (hikes, which 
turne into five or fixe fmall, long, crooked, pointed cods, (landing one agatnft another, likeuntoa ftarre, from 
whence rofe the name, but not joynted as the Birds foote, having within them fmall brownifh feede, of the tafte 
of other Pulfe, but a little clammy with all: the roote is fmall and yellowifh. 
6. Glanx Hijpanica Clufij. Clufm his tynuJ&Milkewort. 
The Spam lb Milkewort of C lH f as rifeth "P with threc or fourc hoarx wcake ftalllCS not a foote w, iereon 
crow many (oft leaves,made of many (mall ones fee together on both (ides of a middle rib,like as thole other Pul- 
leshere tefore of a greene colour above, and hoary white underneath, and a little bitter in tafte: the (hikes are 
bare towards the toppes, where they beare a (hart (pike of flowers fet clofe together, each nfing out of a hoary 
husfce, and are of pale blewilh purple colour, after which come fhort round pods, with4-or 5. fmallround 
feedes within them; the roote is fmall and threddy. .. 
n. Scorvioides Lepffjnittofa. T he Scorpion like Pulle. 
This alfo is a fmall Pulfe with winged leaves li|ie the laft, but rounder : the flowers alfo are fmall and yellow, 
(landing onion" naked Italkes, one or two together, which turne into long and fiat joynted cods, ending in a 
fmall lone ciooked point, fomewhat like a Scorpions taile : fome have taken it to be a Scour,data. 
a The P lace ind Time. 
The firft is found in many places in this Land, and fo is the lift, if I br not much deceived; the reft are (hangers, 
their titles declaring it in mod : they flower towards the end of Summer, and feede alfo. 
The Names. 
Theft: P'ants have not bcene knowne to any of the ancient Greeke or Latine Authors that we know. T he firft 
is dverflv named by diverfe of our moderne Writers: Podona m callcch it Anthylhs prior , and Antbylii, 
Lentifimilit Label, CMim , and oihers Anthyllu legaminofa, by Tabermontame Lagapodium, by Thalius Aytheuca 
Saxmum by Gelner in hortii VuUeraruiruflica 'oecaulc his Country husbandmen called it IVsindksaut qr fC/em 
mmd kraut- and thofe of Berne Guicbheil, and Bauhinw Loto affinis Valuer aria praterfit : the feepnd Ctimer anus, 
as I faid ca’fed Auricula marie, and Boel that brought it us, as itisin the title, and fo likewife the third, 
which Comer arias, as I faid, although hee called it Trifolium Halicacabum as Alpinue did Ttfolmjp vtficarmm ■ 
yet judged it rather a Lotus : the fourth is onely mentioned by Alpmus, lib de exotupt, by the title of Trifohum 
falcatum Creticum which with the former I have rather thought fit to referre hither: the fift is called by Label 
Stella leoaminofa, and as Bauhinfts thinketh the Vicia Sefamaceaoi Columna : butjs much miftaken therein, as I 
flhewed'you before in the Chapter of Aftraoalus : the fixe is called by Cluftus Glanx HAfamca, and thinketh that 
no others fo called, came fo neare that of THofcorides as this: it is very likely to be the Glanx mamma of Alpmus, 
lib de exoticii ■ Dodonaut calleth it AuthyUie altera lentif,milts ; Baithinus maketh it to be the Cicer fylveflre minus 
olT.balius or very like it: the feventh is called by Label Scorpioides leguminofil ; but both this and the Stella leg,,, 
minofa are referred by Bauhinus to the OrinthopoAia, calling them Orinthipodio affiues : Bauhinus among the Poly. 
„/« doubreth whether Anguilara his Poly gala (hould not be the Polygala Valentina prima Clufij, which he faith 
hath leaves like Lentills.but fatter,a yellovy flower and feede in pods,which 1 thinke more likely to be this Sear, 
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