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Show es Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 1426 Lis, 3. ————, @ The Place. Ebulus, fine Sambucus humilis. : ; Dane-wort, or dwarfe Elder. Dane-wort growes in vntoiled places neere commonwaies, and in the borders offields. it groweth plentifully inthe lane at Kilburne Abbeyby London:alfoin a field by S.Toans neete Dartford in Kent: and alfointhe high. Of the Hiftory of Plants; Lib. 3. 7 Stinking Trefoile isa fhrub liketoa little tree,rifing vp totheheight of fix ot eight cubits, or fometimes higher: ir fenderh forth of the ftalks very many flender branches : the barke whereof isofadeep ereetie colons : the leaues ftand alwaies three together, like thofe of Lotws or medow as gold,very like to Trefoile,yet ofa lighter greene on the vpper fide: the floures be long,as yellow tholeof Broome,two or three alfo ioined together :after them come vp broad cods, wherein do lie hard fruit like Kidney Beanes,but leffer,at the firft white,afterwards tending toa purple, and laft of allofia blackith blew:the leaues andfloures hereof hauea filthy fmell,likethofe of the finking Gladdon,andfo ranke withall,as euen the paffers by are annoiedtherewith, wayat old Branford townes end next London; and inmanyother places. 2 Anaczyris fatida. 42 1 Anagyris. | The Time. The floures are perfected in Sommer, and ‘ Stinking Beane Trefoiles Beane Trefoile. é the berries in Autumne. @ The Names. Tt is named in Greeke, sausexm, thatis, hye milis Sambucus, or low Elder: ir is called in Latine, Ebalus, and E¢ulum: in high-Dutch, Attich : in low-Durch, Hadichs in Iealianebulo : in French, Hieble : in Spanith,Yezgos :in Englith, Wall-wort, Dane-wort, anddwarfe Elder. @ The Temperature. Wall-wort is of temperature hotand drie inthe third degree, andofa fingular qualitie, whichGalendothattribute vntoit, cowaft and confume ; and alfo it hatlra ftrange and fpeciail facultic to purge by the ftoole:the rootsbe of greateft force, the leaues haue the chiefeft ftrengthto digeftand confume. | The Vertuts. The roots of Wall-wortboiled in wine and drunken are good againft the dropfie, for they purge downwards watery humors. The leates do confume and wafte away hard fwellingsif they beapplied pultif-wifeorina fomentation or bath. Diofcorides faith, that the roots of Wall-wort doe foftenand open the matrix, and alfo correct the infirmities thercof, if they be boiled for abath to fit in ; and diffoluethe fwellings and paines ofthe belly. at The iuice ofthe root of Dane.wort doth makethe haire blackes The yong and tender leafe quencheth hor inflammations,being applied with Barly Beith is with good fucceffe laid vpon burnings, {caldings, and vpon the bitings of mad dogs; ane Wi" 4 Bulls tallowor Goatsfuet it is a remediefor the gout. The feed of Wall-wort drunke in the quantitie ofa dram is the moft excellent purge ofwate- rie humorsin theworld, and therefore moft fingular againft the dropfie. He oh Ifoneferuple of the feed be bruifed and taken with fyrrup ofRofes anda little Secke,tt ten $ OF Anagyris there are foure kindes,two with ftinking leaues ,the one withlongithleaues,the ° otherwith rounder. one ftalke 3 and the leaues are long and large. The other hath them leffer and narrower, ¢ the dropfie, and eafeth the gout, mightily purging downwards waterith humors, being on¢¢ ae inthe weeke, cee bane Two other whofe leauesdo not ftinke ; the one of thefe hath fometimes foure orfiue leaues on gy The Place, i : ‘ : Thefe grow of them felues in moft places of Languedocke and Spaine, and in other countries alfoby highwaies fides,as in the Ifle of Candy,as Bellonius writeth: the firft Thaue in my gardens theother ree ftrangerin England. + Matter Tradcfcant hath two forts hereofin his garden, ¢ Cuar: 80... Of Beane Trefoile. q The Time, They floure indune,and the {eedis ripe in September. G The Defcription. 7 ote - ; sen t(hed with {hea op: He firlt kinde of Avazyris or Laburnum growethlike vntoa {mall tree, gath! many{mall brancheslike the fhoots ofOziars, fet full ofpale ne leaue vise, OF threc together,like the Lotus or medowTrefoile, or rather like the leaues OF ane 7 the Cytife bufh :among which come forth.many tufts of floures of a'yellow colour, ei like the floures of Broome : when thefe floures be gone therefucceed {mall flat cods,W i contained feeds like Galegaor the Cytifus buth : thewhéle plant hathlittle or no fauout sg gentle, yet ofa wooddy fubftance, the root is foftand 5 q The Names. 3 The Beane Trefoile is called in Greeke sey‘pe, which nameremaineth vncortuptin Candy a tothis day : in Latine alfo Anagyrés,and Laburnum : ofthe peopleof Anagniin Italy named eat Which is referred vnto Laburnum,ofwhich Pliny writeth in his 16,booke, 18. ghapter. In Englith, fane Trefoile,or the Peafcodtree. The Temperature. Beane Trefoile,as Galen writeth,hath a hotand digefting faculty |