¶ The Description.
1 THe first kinde of Onobrychis hath many small and twiggie pliant branches, ramping and creeping through and about bushes, or whatsoeuer it groweth neere vnto: the leaues and all the rest of the pulfe or plant is very like to the wilde Vetch or Tare: the floures grow at the top of small naked stalks, in shape like the pease bloome, but of a purple colour layed 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with blew, which turne into small round prickly husks, that are nothing else but the seed.
2 The second kind of Fitchling or Cocks-head, of Clusius his description, hath very many stalks, especially when it is growne to an old plant, round, hard, and leaning to the ground like the other pulses; and leaues very like Galega, or the wilde Vetch, of a bitter taste and lothsome sauour: among which come forth small round stems, at the ends whereof do grow floures spike fashion, three in∣ches long, in shape like those of the great Lagopus, or medow Trefoile, but longer, of an excellent shining purple colour, but without smell: after which there follow small coddes, containing little hard and blacke seed, in taste like the Vetch. The root is great and long, hard, and of a wooddy sub∣stance, spreading it selfe far abroad, and growing very deep into the ground.
3 The third kinde of Fitchling or Cocks-head hath from a tough smal and wooddie root, ma∣ny twiggie branches growing a cubit high, full of knots, ramping and creeping on the ground. The leaues are like the former, but smaller and shorter: among which come forth smal tender stemmes, whereupon do grow little floures like those of the Tare, but of a blew colour tending to purple: the floures being vaded, there come the small cods, which containe little blacke seed like a Kidney, of a blacke colour.
4 The fourth kinde of Fitchling hath firme green hard stalks a cubit and a halfe high, where∣upon grow leaues like to the wilde Tare or Galega, but smaller and somewhat hairie, bitter and vn∣pleasant in taste, and in the end somewhat sharpe. At the top of the stalks come forth long spiked