SC - Re: speaking of peanuts...

[CorwynWdwd@aol.com]

Gerard lists a Pease Earth-Nut, that obviously isn't a peanut based on the
illustration and the fact that the pods ripen above ground.  It looks more
like a vetch with small edible tubers.

Pease Earth-nut pages 1236-1237.

"Terraeglandes. Of Pease Earth-Nut.
The Nuts of this Pease being boiled and eaten, are hardlier digested than
be either Turneps or Parsneps, yet do they nourish no
lesse than the Parsneps: they are not so windie as they, they doe more
slowly passe through the belly, by reason of their binding
qualitie, and being eaten raw they be yet harder of digestion, and do
hardlier and slowlier descend."

HTH,

Cindy