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Show Of the HiftoryofPlants. 12.00 - ee a rc. . a . —-— . : Les, 2. ye B. 2. at Ofthe Hiftroy ofPlants, 1201 ae other fomewith biggerpriekles ;as alfowich them ftanding divers wayes, fomeare onely rough and of thofe fomeare as big as a {mall nut, other {ome no bigger thana peafe. I gine youtherehy defcriptions of three rough ones, (asl received themffom M".. Goodyer) whereofthe laftis of the fea, which, as you mayfee, our Author did but fuperficially deferibe, flockiehoarineffe like Graphalinm,after the manner of moft ofthefea herbes : the floures are yel- low: the feeds wrinkled like the former, but in quantitie theybe leffer, a The Place. The firft is fowne in the fields of Germanie,Italy, and other countries, to feed their cattell, as wein England do Bucke-wheat : we hauéa {mall quantitie thereof in our gardens,for pleafures fake : 2 Medice maioris Baticafpeciesprima ; \pinulis intortis, The third groweth necre vnto thefeafide in diuers places. This hath foure fquare reddifh ftreakedhairytrailing branches, like the {mall Englith Medics, greater and longer, fourc or fiue foot long: the leaues are alfo fmooth, growing three together, neither fharpe pointed, noryet fo broad at the top as the faid Englith Medica,but blunt topped, witha {mall blacke {pot in the midft, nor crooked : the floures are alfo yellow,three,foure, or fue ona foot-ftalke : after commerha round writhed fruit fully as big as a hafell nut,with {mall pric. The Time, Medica mouft be fowne in Aprill; it foureth in June and Tuly : the fruit is ripe in the end of Au: gult, The Names. ; Medick fodder is called of fome Trifolium Cochleatum, and Medica «in French, E’herbe & Limaf, Kles not ftanding fore-right, but lying flat on the fruit, finely wrapped, plaited, folded, or interla- fiw: in Greeke, mune: in Spanith, Méelguas : ofthe Valentians and Catalons,4/fafaby aword eitherbarbarous or Arabicke : for the chiefe ofthe Arabian writers, Awices, dothéall Medica,Cot, A= ced together, wherein lieth wrapped thefeedin fathion of a kidney,very likea kidney beane, but foure times {maller, and flatter, ofa fhining blacke colour without,like polithed lear; containing a white kernell within : the rootis like the former, and peritheth alfo at Winter. lnfleti, and Alfasfafa. Theother is called Sea Clauer, and Medick fodder ofthe fea. " 4} The Teneperature andVertues. Medick fodderis oftemperature cold,for which cauf€it is applied greene to fuch inflammati- A Medica maijoris Batica [pinofe fpecies altera, sisand infirmities as haue need ofcooling. The branchesalfo creepe on the ground,andareftraked fmooth fourefquare, reddith here and there, three.or fourefootlong: the leauesare {mooth,finely notched aboutthe edges,(harp pointed, without blacke fpots,very like Medica pericarpio plano : the flouresare {mall and yellowlike the other: the fruit is round, writhed or twinedin alfo, fully as big as a hafell nut, fomewhatcottonie Car. $03: or woolly, withfhort fharpeprickles :wherein‘lyeth alfo wrapped a fhining blacke kidney-like iced, fo like the laft defcribed, that they are not to be difcerned apart: the rooris alfoalike, and perifheth at Winter, OfWood Sorrell, or Stubwort. 1 Oxys alba. Whitewood Sorrell, Medica marine ‘[pinofe fpecies. The branches of this are the leaft and fhorteft of all the ref, little exceeding a.footor two 1 Jength, and ate foure fquare, greene, fomewhat hairie, and trailing on theground: the leauesare like to thofe ofMedica pericarpio plano, notfully fo fharpe pointed, without Blacke {pors,foft,hairy, three ona foor-ftalke: the floures growalong ft the branches, on very {mall foor-ftalkes, forth 2 the bofomesofthe leaues, (not altogether onor neere the tops of the branches) and are very {mall and yellow, but one on a foot-ftalke : after commeth{mall round writhed fruit , nobiggerthan a peafe, with very fhort fharpe prickles,whercinis contained yellowith feed ofthe fafhion ofa kidneylike the former, andis the hardeft to be plucked forth ofanyof the reft : the root is alfo whi- tifh like the roots ofthe other, and alfo perifheth at Winter, Ang. 2. 1621. lon Gude. ¢ 3 Trifolium Cochleatum marinum, Medick Fodder ofthe fea. @| The Defcription. : Xys Pliniana,ot Trifoliumacetofum,pcing a kind ofthree leafedgraffe,is a low and bafe herbe without ftalk ; the leaues immediately rifing from the root vpon fhortftems sreor, ¢. at their firft comming forthfolded together,but afterward they do {pred abroad,and ,_._ alaire light ereene colour,in numberthree,like the teft ofthe Trefoiles, but that each leafe, 4adeepe cleft or rift in the middle;amongft thefe leaues come vp fmall and weake tender ¢_:tuch as the leaues do grow vpon, which beare fmall ftar-like floures of a white colour, with Srightnes ofcarnationdafht ouer the fame: the floure confifteth of fiue {mall leaues; after ™~ h comelittle round knapsor huskes full ofyellowith feed : the rootis very threddy, and ofa 5 3 This kinde alfoof Trefoile, (called Medica marina + in Englith, fea Trefoile, growiey rally by the fea fide about Weftchefter, and vponthe Mediterraneanfea coatt, and aewith 2 hath leaiiesvery like vnto the common medow Trefoile, but thicker, and coucred OU 5 colour: thewhole herbeis in tafte like Sorrell,but much fharper and quicker,and maketh , »cene fauce thanany other herbe or Sorrell whatfoeuer, ; g a My olt mentioned friend M*: George Bowles fent me fome plants of this catsswhich he gathered in Aprill laft, inawood of Sir Thomas Walfinghamswith very faire red at Chiffelhurft in Sealled Stockwell wood, and inalittle round woodthereto adioyning. ¢ haf: : . * he fecond kinde of Oxys orwood Sorrell is very like the former,fauing i that the floures ant OF |