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Show aeca rel: "OFthe Hiftorie of Plants.) Of the Hiftorieof Plants. aan te eeMleaa. Lo» ritela alanshea ui + 1 Trifoliamfiliqualunata, q The Time. Oe Thefe herbes do floure in Iuly and Auguft. 1207 eth Modbert refaild, «@ The Names, Plaifter Claueris called by the generall name,M elilotus offome;Trifalinsm odorats.m- yet thereis another {weet Trefoile,as hath beendeclared. Somecall it. Trifolium Equinumyand Caballitiomsos Tri. Horle-Trefoile,by reafon it is good fodder for horfes,who do.greedily feed rhercenslikewife folium Vr(inum; or Beares: Trefoile: of Fuchfins,S axifrag alata, and Sertula Campana : of: Cato;Sera ‘Campana, which moft doname Corona Regia - inhigh Dutch, @poote. SteenclaucrensoftheRomanes and Hetrurians, Tribolo,as Matthiolws writcth : in Englith, Melilor, and:Rlaidlers Clauer sin Yorkefhire, Harts-Clauer. @ The Temperature. Melilote,faith Galen, hath moreplenty of hor fubftance than cold (thatis tofay, kot and dry in the firft degree) it hath alfo a certaine binding qualitie, befides a wafting and ripening facultie, Duofcorides fheweth, that Melilote is ofa bindingand mollifying qualitie,but the mollifying qua- litie is not proper vatoit, butin as muchas it watteth away,and digefteth humors gatheredinhor fwellings,or otherwife : for fo far dothit mollifie or fupple that thing which is hard, whichisnot properly called mollifying,bur digefting and wafting away by vapors : which kindeofquality the Grecians cal]grea, @ The Vertues. Meliloteboiled in fiweetwinevntill it be foft,if you adde theretothe yolke ofarofted egge,the A meale of Fenegreeke and Ligefeed,the roots of Marfh Mallowes and hogs greace flamed together,and vfed asa pultis or cataplafma, plaifterwife, doth aflwage and foftenal! mannerof fellings,efpecially about the matrix,fundament and genitoriesibeing applied vnto thofe placeshot. With thejuice hereofoile, wax, rofen and turpentine,is made amoft foueraigne healing and drawing emplafter, called Meliloteplaifter,retaining both the colour and fauour ofthe herbe, being artificially made by a skilfull Surgion. The herbe boiled. in wine and drunke prouokethvriric, breaketh the fitone, and aflivageth the forth. paine ofthe kidnies, bladder and belly, and ripeneth flegme, and caufeth it to be eafily caft D E The juice theréof dropped into the eies cleereth the fight, confumeth, diffolueth, and cleanc taketh away the web,pearle; and {potin theeies. 6f7 apoftems conMelilote alone with water healeth Recentes melicerides,a kinde of wens or rather teyning matterlike honey;and alfo the running vicers ofthe head, ifirbe laid towithchalkewine at : : and galls. mixed withalittle _Itlikewife mitigateth the paine of the eares, ifthe juicebe dropped therein F wine,and taketh away the paine ofthe head,which the Greckescall supcrennén, efpecially ifthe bead be bathed therewith,and alittle vineger and oile of Rofes mixed amongftit. +Cuar. 506. . ie : d £ 3 Trifolium [pinofum Creticum. Prickly Trefaile. Of certaine other Trefoiles, : in hapter goodto put it to? = : + Ty Hofe Trefoiles being omitted by our Author,I haue thought one another, thetwo Jafteceptec- by rhemfelues, thoughthey hauelittle affinity with ql. The Defcription: I is:like the: Medicke oF = np Hedink of thofe in roots, ftalkes,and manner of growing and {mar if Frefoiles formerly defcribed;the leanes are hairie; the floures yellow erein is contained {ceds made atic’! : which follow crooked flaticods, ofan indifferent bredtb,wh fafhion oflittle kidnies-this the Italians according to Lobel,call Luvmarza radiata;\D thedisf-6 feet itiscalled Medica [jt.alteralunata. 2 The root ofthis is long and thicke,couered witha yellowifh rindeand hauing awhite his #0" pith in the infide, coucred with « hairineffeon the top, and fending forth fundry fibres? rifevp many weake long foot-ftalkes, whereon grow Jeaues fet rogether by threes, longs tines ng {mooth,lightly nickt on theedgeés: among ft thefesifes vp commonly.one ftalke (yet {OME ee fei, Leis thomie Trefoile hath a long threddyroot, from which arife many fhort branched __¢sfome two handfulls high,cornered,and {pred vponthe ground, theioynts,whichare many, mmonlyred, and armed with foure fharpe prickles,and out ofeach of them,vpon fhore foots ioynts ap, OWtwortrifoile lcaues, greene, longith, and endingina little prickle: out of thefe thape and fet ina cup diuided into's- paredao x being them chof floures,ea purple Alpes: prettylarge Mons Baldus fet it forth bythe namee vytee in his Pena and parts ofthe vpon diuersllight Gos ttle blew Bell-floure, with ten chiues in the middle tipt ¥ aibagclion1Ritce Heke Slog f ee moc’ tharpe pointed beads, containing a fingleflat red feed ineachcorner. Clufins top thereof grow {pike fathion ae two){moorh and naked,three or fouire inches long’; on the anguftifolinm Alpinum. Bauhinus {aith,the root hereoftafts like Liquorice wherefore st PF" oe led Glycyrhixa Aftragaloides.or Aftragalus dulcu : and he receiuedit out of Spaineby @e® 1 e magne radice dul. Glyeyrhixa Hecalls it in= his Prodromus,Trifolinm A lpinumflor 4 little leaures, ofthe ? little foot-ftalkes, whichcarry firigle floures made of ftue th this bythe nameofTrifalim fpino[um Creticum: the feed was fent out of Candyby the ~em be queftions whether it may not be the true Tribulus tervefiris of Diofcorides. roots, ftalkes, and leaues ofthis pretty Trefoile donot much differ from the coca wollte - liiii 2 |