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Show * TheGardenof pleafant Flowers. Lhe Garden ofpleafant Flowers, aftertheflowers are paft, there comeintheir'places crooked flat thinne —mre ;fathion of a halfe moone,or crooked horne, whitith whenthey are ripe, whereiniate contained blackith feede : the roote'is hard and woody, fjpreadingdiuets wayes vader the ground:::the wholeplant hath apretty {mall hot fent. © Cytifus vulgatior.. The commonTree Trefoile, colour : after Which appeareclearethinne {welling codslike vatothinne tranty seat This cytifas isthe moft commonin this Land,ofany the other forts of tree trefoiles, thefor. hauing a blackifh colourdbarke, the ftemme or body whereofis larger then {maller and mer, both for height ahd fpreading,bearing alfo three leaues together,but reenter then the former: theflowersare {maller, but of the famefafhion and colour: the cods blackifhandthin, and notvery long,or great, but leffer then Broomecods, wherein there lyeth {mall blackith hard feede : therooteis diuerfly difperfed in the d. groun The Place. The firft groweth in the kingdome of Naples, and-ttedoubt in many otherplaces of Italie, as Matthiolus faith. The other growethia divers places of France. 442 Elder, with an hollowneffe like a pith in the hearo t rofbranch which are diuided many wayes, and Whereonareferatfeucrall diftances disiets ae ged leanes, ¢ ompotedof many {mall round pointed,orrather flat pointed leaues one fet againtt another,like ynto Licoris,or the Hatchet Fitch 3 among thefe leaues last GE Y ver ae forth the flowers, in fafhiow like vato Broome flowers, and as large ete bladders, wherein are containedblacke feede, fet vpon.a middleribbe or aewin the middle of the bladder, whichif it be alittle crufhed betweene the fingers, willgiuea cracke, like as a bladderfull of winde.The roote groweth branched and woody. 2. Colutea Scorpivides maior. The greater Scorpion podded Baftard Sena. This Baftard Sena groweth nothing fo great or tall, but fhootcth out diuerfly, like yato afhrub, with many fhoots {pringing from the root:the branchesare greener,but morerugged, having awhite barke on the beft part of the elder growne branches. forthe young are greene, and hauefuch like winged leauesfet on them asare to befeen inthe former, but {maller, greener, and more pointed : the flowers are yellow, but much fmaller,fathioncd fomewhatlike vato the former, with a reddith {tripe downe thebacke ofthe vppermoft leafe:the long codsthatfollowarefinall,long and round, diftinguifhed into many diuifions or dents,like vnto a Scorpions tayle, from whence hath rifenthename: io thefe feuerall dinifionslye feuerall blacke feede, like vnro the The Time. They flowerfor the moft part in May or Tune : the feedeis ripein Au. guft or September. fede of Fenigrecke ; the roote is white and Jong, but not fo woody as the former, 3. Colutaa Scorpioides mizor. Theleffer Scorpion Baftard Sena. The Names. eset Thefirft (as I faid) isthought of moftto be the trueCytifes of Diofcori- This leffer Baftard Sena is inall things like the former, but fomewhat lower, and {maller both in leafe, fower,and cods of feede, which hauenotfuch eminent bunches on the cods to be feeneas the former. des, and asis thought, wasin thefe later dayes firft found by Bartholomeus ThePlace. Maranta ofNaples, who fentit firftto Matthiolus, and thereuponbath euer fince beene called after his name, Cytifas Marantha,Some doccall it Cyts/m Lunatus, hecaufe the cods are made fomewhatlike vnto an halfe Moone Wecallit in Englifh,Horned Trefoile. The otheris called Cytifus enlgaris* or valgatior ; in Englifh, The common Trefoile, becaufe wee haue not any other fo common. They grow as Matthiolus faith about Trentin Italie,andin otherplaces: the former is frequent enough through all our Countrey, but the others are more rare. The Time. They flower aboutthe middle or end of May, andtheirfeede is ripein The Vertues, Auguft, The bladders of the firft willabide a great while onthetree,if The chiefeft vertues that are appropriate to thefe plants, are to procure milke in womensbreafts,to fatten pullen,theep &c.and to be goodfor bees. they be fuffered, and vatill the winde‘caufe them to rattle, and afterwards the skins opening,the feedwill fall away, The Names. Cuar. CXXII. The name Co/ures isimpofed onthem, and bythe iudgement of moft Colateza. The Battard Sena Tree. Ee haue in our Gardens two orthree {orts of the Baftard Sena tree 5 a j greater as I mayfo call it, andtwolefler : the one with round-thin tam {parent skins like bladders, wherein are the feede : the others with long round cods, the one bunchedoutor {welling in diuers places, like vatoa Sgorpions tale, wherein is the feede, andthe other very like vntoit,but fmaller. 1. Colutes Veficaria. The greater Baftard Sena with bladders. This thrubor treeor thrubbytree,which you pleafetocall ir, rifech vp tothe height of ‘a pretty tree, the ftemmeorftock being fometimesof the bigneffe ofa mansarms Couered with a blackifhgreene rugged barke, the wood whereof is harder thenaaa att; writers,the firft is taken to bee thatCo/utex of Lipara that Theophraftus maketh mentionof, in the feuenteenth chapter of his third booke. But I thould rather thinke that the Scorpioides were the truer Co/utea of Theophraftus, caufe the long pods thereof aremoreproperly tobee accounted filiqua, then the former whichare vefice tamentes,windy bladders, andnot fiigua : and no doubt but Theophraftus would haue giuen'fome peculiar note of difference if he had meant thofe bladders,and notthefe cods. Let others of iudgement be vmpceresin this cafe ; although I know the currant ofwriters fince Matthiolus,docall hold the fermer Colatea veficaria to be thetruc€olutea Lipare of Theopbraftus. Weecall itin Englith, Baftard Sena, frem Ruellius, who as Ithinkefirft called it Sena, from the forme of the leaues. The fecondandthird (as I {aid before) fromthe forme ofthe cods receined their names, as it is in the ticles and defcriptions ; yet they may as properly be called siliquof«, for that their fruite are long cods. 7 |