143 JOHN GOODYER 



spott in the middest of ech leafe. The flowers are very small and 

 yealowe, growinge on short footstalks, alongest the branches, forth 

 of the bosomes of the leaves, 3, 4 or 5 on a footstalk ; after cometh 

 small round fruits, writhen or wound together, flatt at the toppe, 

 prickley, no bigger then a small pease, wherein lyeth small yealowe 

 seed, in fashion of a kidney, but no bigger then a flea. The root is 

 small, whitish, groweth downerightwith a fewe side branches and small 

 thredds, and perisheth at winter after the seed is ripe. — MS. f. 104. 



Medicago polymorpha L. 

 Medicae maioris Baeticae species prima, 2 Aug. 1621 



spinulis intortis. 



Hath also foure square reddish streaked hairy trailing branches, 

 like the small English Medica, but greater and longer, foure or 5 foot 

 long : the leaves are also smooth, growing three together, neither 

 sharpe pointed, nor yet so broad at the top as the said English 

 Medica, but blunt topped, with a small blacke spot in the midst, 

 not crooked : the flowers are also yellow, three, foure, or five on 

 a' foot-stalke : after commeth a round writhed fruit fully as big as 

 a hasell nut, with small prickles not standing foreright, but lying 

 flat on the fruit, finely wrapped, plaited, folded, or interlaced 

 together, wherein lieth wrapped the seed in fashion of a kidney, 

 very like a kidney beane, but foure times smaller, and flatter, of 

 a shining blacke colour without, like polished leat ; containing 

 a white kernell within : the root is like the former, and perisheth 

 also at Winter. — MS. f. 104; Ger. emac. 1200. 

 [* leate ' in MS., probably = jet.] 



Hedgehog Medic k. Medicago intertexta L. 

 Medicae maioris Baeticae spinosae species altera. 2 Aug. 1621 



The branches also creepe on the ground, and are straked smooth 

 foure square, reddish here and there, three or foure foot long : the 

 leaves are smooth, finely notched about the edges, sharp pointed, 

 without blacke spots, very like Medica pevicarpio piano : the flowers 

 are small and yellow like the other : the fruit is round, writhed or 

 turned in, also fully as big as a hasell nut, somewhat cottonie or 

 woolly, with short sharpe prickles : wherein lyeth also wrapped 

 a shining blacke kidney-like seed, so like the last described, that 

 they are not to be discerned apart : the root is also alike, and 

 perisheth at Winter.— J/5, f. 104; Ger. cinac. 1200. 



Medicago marina L. 

 Medicae marinae spinosae species. 2 Aug. i6ai 



The branches of this are the least and shortest of all the rest, 



