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large or open, growing about a very long branch or ftalke, (binetimes a good fpan or 

 more in length, and of a faire yellow colour, but not very deepe; after which come 

 flat thin cods, not very long or broade, but as tough and hard as the cods of Broome ; 

 wherein arc contained blackilh fecde, like, but much lefle then the feede of Anagyris 

 vera (which are as big as a kidney beane, purpliih and fpotted) : the roote thrufteth 

 down deepe into the ground, fpreading alfo farre, and is of a yellowifh colour. 



The Place. 



This tree groweth naturally in many of the woods of Italie, and vpon 

 the Alpes alfo, and is therefore ftill accounted to be that Laburnum that Pli- 

 nie calleth Arbor Alpina. It groweth in many gardens with vs. 



The Time. 



It flowreth in May, the fruit or cods, and the feedes therein are ripe in the 

 end of Auguft, or in September. 



The Names. 



This tree (as I faid before) is called of Matthiolus Anagyris altera, Jiuefe- 

 cunda^ of Cordus, Gefner and others, efpecially of moi\ now adayes, La- 

 burnum. It is probable in my opinion, that this Humid bee that Colutaa of 

 Theophraftus, mentioned in the fourteenth Chapter of his third book with 

 the leafe of a Willow ; for if you take any one leafe by it felfe, it may well 

 refemble a Willow leafe both for forme and colour, and beareth fmall feed 

 in cods like vnto pulfe as that doth. Of fome it hath beene taken for a kinde 

 of Cytifus, but not truely. We call it in EnglHh, Beane Trefoile, in regard 

 of his cods and feede therein, fomewhat like vnto Kidney Beanes, and of 

 the leaues, three alwayes ftanding together, vntill a more proper name 

 may bee giuen it. 



The Vertues. 



There is no vfe hereof in Phyficke with vs, nor in the naturall place of 

 the growing, faue only to prouoke a vomit, which it will doe very ftrongly. 



CHAP. CXXI. 

 Cytifus. Tree Trefoile. 



THere are fo many forts of Cytifus or Tree trefoiles, that if I fhould relate them 

 all, I (liould weary the Reader to ouerlooke them, whereof the moft part per- 

 taine rather to a generall worke then to this abftract. I (hall not therefore trou- 

 ble you with any fuperfluous, but only with two, which we haue nourfed vp to furnifh 

 wafte places in a garden. 





Cytifus Maranthe. Horned Tree Trefoile. 



This Tree Trefoile which is held of moft Herbarifts to bee the true Cytifus of Dio- 

 fcorides, rifeth vp to the height of a man at the moft, with a body of the bignefle of a 

 mans thumbe, couered with a whitifh bark, breaking forth into many whitifti branches 

 fpreading farre, befet in many places with fmall leaues, three alwayes fet together vp- 

 on a fmall fhort footeftalke, which are rounder, and whiter then the leaues of Beane 

 Trefoile : at the ends of the branches for the moft part, come forth the flowers three 

 or foure together, of a fine gold colour, and of the fafhion of Broome flowers, but 



not 



