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Of the Hiflorie of Plants 



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mer,but ic is a low plant and more woolly ; vvhofe italics and branches grow not very high, but yet 

 very plentifully fpred about the (ides of the plant : the leaues are greater than the former s but letter 

 than thofe of medow Trefoile : the floures grow cloie together, as though they were bound vp or 

 compact into one head or fpoky tuft fomewhat greater than the former: the cods are aHo greater 

 and more hairy : the root growcth very deep into the ground ,\vhereunto are adjoined a few fibres: 

 ic falls out to be more hairy or woolly in one place than in another,and the more hairy and woolly 

 that it is,the whiter it waxcth ; for the roughnefle bringech it a certainc whitift colour. $ The 

 branches of this oft times lie along vpon the ground : the leaues arc fmootb, green abouc,and hoa 

 ry vndcrncath : the floures yellow,which fading 5 fomtimcs become orange coloured. 1 he cods arc 

 round,and feeds brownifli. t 



5 The fifth kindc of Cytifa growcth to the height of a cubit or more, hauingmany llcnder 

 twiggy branches IikcBroom,ftreaked,and very hard, whereupon grow leaues very like Fenugreek, 

 yet all hoary,thrce together • from the bofom of which, or between the leaues and the ftalks come 

 forth yellow floures very like Rtoom Jpartum,ox Peafe,but fmallcr: the cods be likevnto Broome 

 cods, ofanafh colour, but flendcrer, rougher and flatter; in the feuerall eels or diuifions whcn.of 

 arc contained bright fhining feeds like theblacke feeds of Broome ; all the whole plant is hoary 



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6 Cytifusfhw/itits. 



Winged ft rub Trefoile. 



7 Cytifus 7. cermtus. 

 The horned ftrub Trefoile* 



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6 The fat kind otcpifut or bum Trefoile growes to the height of a tall man,with lone ftalfcs 

 couered ouer with a blackifh barke,and a few boughes or branches befct or garnifted withJeauetf 

 »ke the common Trefoile,but fmaller.growing alfo three together,wherof the middlemoft of the 

 three leaues is twice as long as the two fide leaues . the vpper fide whereof is greene,and the lower 

 Jidc fomwhat reddifh and hairy : the floures grow along the ftalks almoft from the bottom to the 



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7 ThefeuenthfcindeofCj,f;/2«hath many tough and hairy branches rifiV from a woodiic 

 joot foureor fiuecubitshigh ; which are diuided into fundry fmallcr branches^efer^n leaues 



"kc the medow Trefoiles ; amongft which come forth yellow ftoures like Broome,rhat turne into 



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