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Show ©wap.1i2, 416 T RIBE 5. Theatrum Botanicum, : | Trifolinm odoratwmfive Lotws Urbana, Sweet Trefoile or Balfame, tick he fweete Trefoile rifech up with one {trong round whitifhftalke, three or foure foote higt Trine: Tih ine three ieteoe manybranches onall fides, whereabout are fet many leaves upon long fooreftalkes, the fent of Fenugreck, whichis of awhitifh greene colour, very foft, and fomewhat dented abontthe edges, of many flowers "clalely {ee thought toalter feven times 4 day,andis but fancy, at the toppes of the branches ftand Cuar.ir3, The Theater of Plants. ou jtaminosum America : achieeh, att me. rar ea ‘ or pale, watchet, blew colour : together, cach of them like unto thofe of CMellilot but larger, and of a bleake, after which come round white heads conteining darke yellowith coloured feede : the roote is {mall white and ee eo perifhing every yeare, and raifingit felfe from the feede that fheddeth, or being fowen in the Spring. 2. Trifolium Afphaltites five bituminofum, Strong fmelling Claver. es tee y ‘ This kinde of Trefoile or Claver hathhis firit leaves fomewhatlarger and rounder then thofe that grow upon the ftaikes, three alwayes ftanding together upona long footeftalke, of a darke greene colour almoft fhinin Pe with {ome hairinefle thereon ; the {talkeis trong round andhairy alfo, rifing to the height of two foore nee : ter,whereon grow the leaves, more long and pointed then the lower, branching from the bottome moft afially Be: eo tothe toppe, where grow manylargeflowers ina bufh ortuft,thicke fer together, of ablewith purple clo and fomewhathairy or hoary withall efpecially the huskes conteining theflowers, which afterwards turnei ; hairy brownifh broad cods conteining every ont but one feede,which is fomewhat broad, rough and ohana: the one end: the roote perifheth with us every yeare, burabideth in the hotter countries whereit is natur: iL The fmell of the leaves and whole plant is fomewhat ftrong almoft like Rue, or Herbegtace, efpeciall while they are young, but much fttongerwhen they are growneold, eyen of Bitumen whereof it tooke mf n: ag but although it retaineth his fent in hisnaturall and hotplaces; yet with us Ihave obferved the ftrong fent . axeth weaker every yeare then other, and after the fecond yeares {owing to be almoft without any fent at all; fo ts much can doe (in this as in many otherplants) the temperature and moifture of our countrey : 3° Tirifolinm Bitumino{um eAmericasum. Strong fmelling Claver of America This other bicuminons Claver hatha flender, darke red, cubit high ftalke, branching from the bottome to thé ropee ; fet with long leaves which are. hairy dnd clammy, three alwayes together on a long footeftalke, not melling fo {trong being bruifed as gently touched, the young fhoots fmelling like Rue or Herbegrace the elder like a Goate or Bitumen: the ends ofthe branches have purplifh flowers on them like Scrophularia, ihe rea Figwort,with three leaves ftanding out, and one turned inward, but white within : the greene pods that fail : have the like hairy clamminefle with theleaves, being ofa fingerslength, anda {mall purplifh tippe ar the e = whereinlye Kidneylike feede : th¢ roote islong and fibrous, whofe tafte is almoft as fharpe as the tones — annual as Cornutus faith it isto be yearcly fowen (but ifitbe Galega Americana fore purparéo as hee there aith fome called it, and whereby Robinwa of Paris fent mec a plant longfince, it dyethnot but abidech many 1. Trifoligm ee edoratum,le Swveete Trefoile, 2 Trifolium bitami winofum. Strong {melling Clayer. thaé booke likewife he laboureth fprightly to prove his yeares yet did never come to flowring {ince I hadit) Inides his Trifolium Alfpaltite, then that other laft deferis this plant commeth nearerto the defcri ption of Dio/cer ft reafon being groundedfrom the colour of thé bed whichisaccounted the trieft with all writers, his greate Hiacinth which is Galens note. flower, which in this received is not purple like theanum, Clavet ofAmerica, 4. Trifolium’ Amerit ng forthinto many branmany round ftalkes, leaning tothe groun d, {ptéadi This frange Claver bringeth forth round like tpon long footettalkes, each whereof is fomewhat thes, whereonarefet in divers placesthree leaves abont the edgés, butof a firong fent, mach dented more colour, greene darke ofa larger, but the Biturinofum s ftatidlong fpikie cares ef whitifh: Aowers,: being like thereunto ; at the toppes ofthe ftalkes and branche g Claver, after which come in their places {rnall fomewhat {mailer then thofe of thar recited {trong fmellin , fpreading divers wayes. round and flattith feede : the roote is fmall and ftringyThe Place, their Gardens,and Germany, but with chem all is onely fowenginwilde in Greece or The firlt groweth notwilde in Italy,France or inhis time, as not rowin foit is with us; and evenDiofcorides faith it grew in Gardens Lobel fay, Mompelier and Mfarfeiles as Pena and othet places that he had heard of. ~The fecond growethaboutas.in Germany and withus, and onely to be found called and isa {tranger at Venice and other places of Italy, as well Indies rare plants. The twolalt come tromthe Welk in the Gardens of thofe that are curious conferversof Americaas it is thought. . The Time. perfect hisfeede, but the others becanfe they flowerla alwayes doth and Jaly, and Lwne in The frlt Howreth fecke for themagaineoftento are we whereby feede, good give to miffe often ter,doe The Names. faith it ferveth Deornm voluptati. The firttis The Greeke Aon feemeth tobetaken 4 voluptate, for fo Homerdes in Latine Lotwsfativa or Urbana, yet Mats Diofcori molt ofthe belt writers takento be the Awrs tuee@ of fo doe Anguillara and Caftor “Durantes, but Fu, chius, € , and biolus taketh itto be his Aenms éyetS, Lotus (ylvefiris and Turner Lots urbana ; Tragus calleth Cordiss,Gofner,Camerarins and Dodoneyscall it Loews [ativa, Lachna, fativa was called. Dodonaus calleth it Trifolinms odorAa it Trifalinm. Dsofcorsdis,tor fo Diofcorsdes faith his Lotus be Trifolinm adoratum Lobel calleth it, Lorw ture alerum because he named the A4e/i/or in the next Chapter to dora, onely calleth it Lotus hortenjts odova,. and 18 Tabermontanys calleth it Atefilotus vera, Bawhinus it Trifolium és Alpini by Pora, inthe defcription of <7lons Baldus,. Molt nowa dayes callthat is feaven it downe) odor atum, and the Germenes of old time called it Siben gexeit (as Tragus and other: s fet in.a da y,which is but a fancy as Ifaid times. fweetes {appofing it loft his fent and gained it againe fo many times {mell feronger again will but little, before, burbeing gathered and kept dry in che houfeir doth keepe his fenca efh to beas it were th cir Almanacke to fhewth rainy weather, whereby many defire to lay it in their chambers, faire |