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Show Ofthe Hiftory of Plants, Lis.3. crooked flat codslikea fickle; wherein is contained the feed tafting like Cicer or Legumen. The whole plantis hoaric like Rhamnus, and being broken or bruifed{melleth like Rocket. 8 This eighth kinde ofCyti/us, which Penaferteth forth, is doubtlefle another kinde of Cotis fiw, 8e fembling the formerin leaues; floures, and cods, fauing that the {mall leaues (which are al. waies three together)area little fnipt aboutthe edges: thewholeplaitis flenderer,fofter,and gree ner, rather refembling an herbe than fhrub : the rootis fmall and fingle. 9 Thisbaftard or mif-begotten fhrub Trefoile,or baftard Cyti/as,groweth vp like a fhrub,but notof awooddy {nbftance,hauing tenderftalks fmooth and plaine :whereon do grow hairy leaues like the other, diuers fet vpon one foot-ftalke, contrarie toll the reft : the floures grow along: the ftemslike thofe of the ftocke Gillofioures, ofa yellow colour: the root istough andwooddy, 8. Cytifus 8. The eighth fhrub Trefoile. 9 Cytifus adulterinus, fine Alyfonfruticans, Baftard fhrub Trefoile. [Lap 3. Ofthe Hiftory of Plants. ae 07 | The Temperature. The leaues of milke Trefoile do coole,as Diofcorides writeth 5 they affwage fwellings inthe beginning,if they be ftamped andlaid vnto them with bread : the decoétion thereof drunke prouoketh vine : Ga/en teacheth,that the leaues of Milke Trefoile hauea digefting or wafting qualitie mixedwith a waterie and temperate facultie,as haue thofe of the Mallow. @| The Vertues. Women,faith Cohwmella, ifthey want milke muft fteepe dry milke Trefoile in faire water, and A whenitisthroughly foked,they muft the next day mixa quart or thereabouts of the fame prefled orftained forth witha little wine,andfo let it be giuen vnto them todrinke, and by that meanes theythemfelues fhall receive ftrength,and their children comfort by abundance of milke. Hippocrates reckoneth vp Milk-Trefoile among thofe things that encreafe milke,in his booke of B the Nature ofwomen, and of womensdifeafes, Alfo Ariffomachws of Athensin Plizy,commandethtogiue with wine the dry plant,and the fame C likewife boiled in water,to nurfes to drinke when their milke is gone, Democritus and Ariftomachus do promife that you fhall want‘no Bees, ifyouhave milke Trefoile D forthem to feed on; for all writers with one confent do conclude(as Galen faith) that Bees doe ga- ther ofthe floures of Milke Trefoile very great ftore ofhonie. Colimella teacheth , that Milke Trefoile is notable good for hennes,Bees, Goats, Kine, andall E indeofCattellwhich quickely growfat by eating thereof,and thatit yeeldeth very great ftore of milke, The people of Beticaand Valentia (where thereis great ftoreof Cytifws) doe vfe it very much F we Silke VVorms to hang theirweb vponafter they haue been well fed with the leaues ofMuleres, MilkeTrefoile is likewife a maruellous remedie againft the Sciatica, and-all other kindes of G gouts, } Thedsfeription that formerly wasin the firft place belonged to that deferibedand Ggured in the (euenth. Cuar. 12. OfBaftard Milke-Trefoiles. | The Defiription. 1 es rifeth vp withlittle ftalks from the root,brittle, very many in number,parted into bile eee and branches,about which growmany leaues lefler than thofe ofthe medow Treofbuene . greene the floures about the tops ofthe twigs be orderly placed in manerlike ears, wee, yellow,leffer than thofe of broom,otherwife all alike:in their places grow vpflendercads ki re row.and leffer chan the cods of Broome: rough alfoand hairy ; inwhichdolie little blac: wt me toot is long,and groweth deepe,and oftentimes creepeth aflope. : tiligs : econd kinde of baftard Milke-Trefoile is like vnto the formerin plentiful ftalkes and @| The Place. Thefe plants werefirft brought into Italy and Greece fromone of the Ifles of Cyclades, called Cynthoor Cynthufa,and fince found in many places of France,as about Montpelier, Veta and other places : they are ftrangers in England, though they growvery plentifully in See: » eossuc that it is lowerand more downie ; neither doe the ftalkes thereof ftand vptight, but a? the one fide:the leaues alfo are fomewhat greater, but yet leffer than thofe of the emf a wholly white, and they heuer open them{clues out,but keep alwaiesfolded with weteinge i: ftanding out:the floutes likewife be clofelier ioined together, and compactedaas it it is reported ; whereof I haue two forts in my garden, thatis to fay,Cytifus Maranthe,or . a ned Cytifus,and likewife one of the fmalleft, that is to fay, the third innumber. ¢ Thee groweth in the garden ofM’, John Tradefcant. + q The Time. - and hain a ae head,and be alfo fomething greater : thecods in like mannerare a little bigger ittos ave ofa blackithpurple ot muttrey : the root groweth deepe in the ground, being diuided thes the monte 3 1toftentimes happenetlto grow inoneplace more hairie or downie than inano~ Sei: te hairie and downic itis,she more white and hoarie it is ; for the hairinefle doth alfo 5 Mit it a certaine whitith colour. ned 18 aether an Writhed and crooked, long leaues ofa faire greene colour : the floures ate clofed torub ft tect elf galbineous, fweetly {mellingthat is to fay,hauing the fmel ofhonie:the Thefe plants floure for the moft part in May, Iuné, and.Iuly,and fomeafter : the feedis spe September. : q.The Names, ‘ The Grecians and Latines do callthis fhrub am» of Cynthufa an Ifland before ieeehealt which place theyare in great eftimationfor that they dofo wonderfully feed cattell, - lt milke in their dugs;nourith fheepe and goats, which bring yong ones good for ftore —_ iti One Authordoth call thefe plants in Greekexv2m», that is to fay in Latine Fecundum_ en saith, orfruitful Hay, forithat the kindes hereof caufe milke to encreafe,maketh good a4 in Dg: augmenteth firength, and multiplieth thenaturall feed ofgeneration : they may beca. lith;milke Txefoile, ofthe ftore ofmilkewhichthey encteafe. cssaid kinde of baftard Milke Trefoile bringeth forth a companie of young fhoots that with fetes. alwaies greene both Sommerand Winter.i¢ This growes fome footof better high, theniidaig femrtentet with leaues three ftanding together vponaveryfhort ftalke, and Dates ro “aie ts as long againeas the othertwo ; they are very white and hoarie, and the yellow sence : Out ofthe bofomes.of the !eauesall along{t the ftalks, This is that mentioned in the the former chapter at F for the Silke wormes to workevpon. ¢ 4 Thefourth fhrub is likewife oneof the wilde kinde,though in face and ftature like the ma4 |