Lib. 2-. 



Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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« The Place. . , ... 



Common roedow Trcfoile grows in medowes 3 ferti!e paftures,and watenfh grounds: the others 



Jove the like foile 



^[ The Time. 



Tbcy floure from May to the end of Summer. 



^ The Names. . 



Hcdow Trefoile is called in Latine Trifi Hum prate »fe : in high-Dutch^lfcnfeUeun low-Dutch, 



Qtmtn : in French,rr<r//fr 5 and 7nf/>wr^and yifumarus, as MarceUus an old writer certifies: in En- 



crjiili Common Trefoile,Threc leafed graiTe: of fome,Suckles,Hony.fuckles,and Cocks-heads i 



in Irifh Shamrocks. 



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*H The Temperature. 



The leaues and floures of medow Trefoiles arc cold and dry. 



q\ The Vertues. 



The decoftion of three leafed grafle made with hony and vfed as a clifter,is good againft fret- A 



tings and paines of the guts,and driueth forth tough and flimy humors that cleaue vnto theguts. \ 



The !e3ucs boiled with a little barrows grcafe.and vfed as apultis, take away hot fwellings and B 



inflammations. 



Oxenand other cattell do feed on the herb,as alfocalves and yong latnbs.The flours areaccep- C 



tabic to Bees. 



Pltnj wri teth and fettcth it downe for certaine,that the leaues hereof do tremble and ftand right D" 

 vpagainftthecommingofa ftorme or tempeft. 



The medow Trefoile (cfpecially that with the blacke halfe-moon vpon the Ieafe) ftamped with E 

 a little hon intakes away the pin and web in the eies,ceafing the pain and inHammation thereof, if 



it be ft rained and dropped therein. 



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hap. 49 y. Ofjlmfyg Trefoile or Treacle Clatter. 



Tr if $lium bitumintjum. 



Treacle Claver. % 



Defer if t t 



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fhrub 



bie plan^with ftalkes of a cubic and a halfe 

 nigh j whereupon grow next the ground 

 broad leaues three joined together : thofe vpon 

 the ftalks are longer and narrower. The italics are 

 coucrcd ouer with a rough euill coloured hairi- 

 ocfle : the leaues are of a darke blacke green co 

 our,and of a loathfome fmell.like the pitch cal' 

 led Bitumen iudaicu m , whereof it took the name 

 The flours grow at the top of the ftalks aft E C 

 purplifh colour tending to blewVcfle ? fl f 

 Iikethofeof Scabious The feed i l ' ftape 



Iong,and lharp P^^Tt^Sj^ ' 

 der,and canor ^,.« *». i . i." 1 * nal & ten. 



thereof 



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It groweth naturally faith '»;«« 

 tethit:in GermanyfFra* ^ ft **f «f l '^»- 



commeth vp of it fdf! k^ a ? § L aod ic ne «<* 



<>ens s as my ?c!fc haul n T? be ^ 0wn *» g«- 



"» conftrained to^ r« pr ° acd diuers times • * nd 

 not come vp^fj" y^><* el fe it wou d 

 Wife « cuner of his owne fowing or other- 



Itflnn j ^ The Time'. 



Auguft not in m y § ardcn VDtin the end of 



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