4.38 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



Poplar tree, both in greatneffe and whitenefle of the branches, with the leafe 

 of an luie, without corners on the one part, cornered on the other, and 

 fharpe pointed, greene on both fides almoft alike, hauing fo (lender long 

 footeftalkes that the leaues cannot ftand forthright, but bend downwards, 

 with a more rugged barke then the white Poplar tree. Clufius thinketh this 

 large defcription is but an ample defcription of the third kinde of Poplar, 

 called Lybica, the Afpen tree, which Gaza tranflateth Alpina : but who fo 

 will well confider it, (hall finde it neyther anfwerable to any Poplar tree, in 

 that it beareth not cods as Cercis doth ; nor vnto this Arbor ludce, becaufe it 

 beareth not white branches. Clufius faith alfo, that the learned of Mom- 

 pelier in his time, referred it to Golytea of Theophraftus in his third booke 

 and feuenteenth chapter, where he doth liken it to the leaues of the broadeft 

 leafed Bay tree, but larger and rounder, green on the vpperfide, and whitifh 

 vnderneath, and whereunto (as he faith) Theophraftus giueth cods in the 

 fourteenth chapter of the fame third booke : and by the contracting of their 

 defcriptions both together, faith, they agree vnto this ludas tree. But I find 

 fome doubts and differences in thefe places : for the Colutaea that Diofcori- 

 des mentioneth in the faid fourteenth chapter of his third booke, hath (as 

 he faith there) a leafe like vnto the Willow, and therefore cannot bee the 

 fame Colutcza mentioned in the feuenteenth chapter of the fame third book, 

 which hath a broade Bay leafe: indeede hee giueth feede in cods: but 

 that with broade Bay leaues is (as he faith) without eyther flower or fruite ; 

 and befides all this, he faith the rootes are very yellow, which is not to bee 

 found in this Arbor ludte, or ludas tree : let others now iudge if thefe things 

 can bee well reconciled together. Some haue for the likenefle of the cods 

 vnto Beane cods, called it Fabago. And Clufius called it Siliqua Jiluejlris. 

 It is generally in thefe dayes called Arbor ludce^ and in Englifh after the La- 

 tine name, vntill a fitter may be had, ludas tree. 



The Vertues. 



There is nothing extant in any Author of any Phyficall vfe it hath, ney- 

 ther hath any later experience found out any. 



CHAP. CXX. 

 Laburnum. Beane Trefoile. 



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"^Here be three forts of thefe codded trees or plants, one neere refembling ano- 

 ther, whereof Anagyris of Diofcorides is one. The other two are called La- 

 burnum; the larger whereof Matthiolus calleth Anagyris a/iera, and fo doe 

 fome others alfo : the third is of the fame kinde with the fecond, but fmaller. I (hall 

 not for this our Garden trouble you or my felfe with any more of them then one, 

 which is the lefler of the two Liburnum, in that it is more frequent, and that it will far 

 better abide then the Anagyris, which is fo tender, that it will hardly endure the winters 

 of our Countrey : and the greater Laburnum is not fo eafily to be had. 



Laburnum. Beane Trefoile. 



This codded tree rifeth vp with vs like vnto a tall tree, with a reafonable great body, 

 if it abide any long time in a place, couered with a fmooth greene barke ; the branches 

 are very long, greene, pliant, and bending any way, whereon are fet here and there di- 

 uers leaues, three alwaies (landing together vpon a long ftalk, being fomewhat long, and 

 not very narrow, pointed at the ends, greene on the vpperfide, and of a filuer mining 

 colour vnderneath, without any fmell at all : at the ioynts of thefe branches, where 

 the leaues (land, come forth many flowers, much like vnto broome flowers, but not fo 



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