44 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



not fo large : after the flowers are paft, there come in their places crooked flat thinne 

 cods, of the fafhion of a halfe moone, or crooked home, whitifh when they are ripe, 

 wherein are contained blackifh feede : the roote is hard and woody, fpreading diuers 

 wayes vnder the ground: the whole plant hath a pretty fmall hot fent. 



Cytifus vulgatior. The common Tree Trefoile. 



This Cytifus is the moft common in this Land, of any the other forts of tree trefoiles, 

 hauing a blackifh coloured barke, the ftemme or body whereof is larger then the for- 

 mer, both for height and fpreading, bearing alfo three leaues together, but fmaller and 

 greener then the former : the flowers are fmaller, but of the fame fafliion and colour : 

 the cods blackifh and thin, and not very long, or great, but lefTer then Broome cods, 

 wherein there lyeth fmall blackifh hard feede : the roote is diuerfly difperfed in the 

 ground. 



The Place. 



The firft groweth in the kingdome of Naples, and no doubt in many 

 other places of Italic, as Matthiolus faith. The other groweth in diuers 

 places of France. 



The Time. 



They flower for the moft part in May or lune : the feede is ripe in Au- 

 guft or September. 



The Names. 



The firft (as I faid) is thought of moft to be the true Cytifus of Diofcori- 

 des, and as is thought, was in thefe later dayes firft found by Bartholomaeus 

 Maranta of Naples, who fent it firft to Matthiolus, and thereupon hath euer 

 fince beene called after his name, Cytifus Maranthce. Some doe call it Cytifus 

 Lunatus, becaufe the cods are made fomewhat like vnto an halfe Moone. 

 We call it in Englifh, Horned Tree Trefoile. The other is called Cytifus vu/- 

 garis or vu/gatior ; in Englifh, The common Tree Trefoile, becaufe we haue 

 not any other fo common. 



The Vertues. 



The chiefeft vertues that are appropriate to thefe plants, are to procure 

 milke in womens breafts, to fatten pullen, fheep &c. and to be good for bees. 



CHAP. CXXII. 

 Coluteea. The Baftard Sena Tree. 



T^f77Ee haue in our Gardens two or three forts of the Baftard Sena tree; a 



\\/ greater as I may fo call it, and two lefler : the one with round thin tran- 



fparent skins like bladders, wherein are the feede : the others with long 



round cods, the one bunched out or fwelling in diuers places, like vnto a Scorpions 



tale, wherein is the feede, and the other very like vnto it, but fmaller. 



I. Coluteea Veficaria. The greater Baftard Sena with bladders. 



This fhrub or tree, or fhrubby tree, which you pleafe to call it, rifeth vp to the height 

 of a pretty tree, the ftemme or ftock being fometimes of the bigneffe of a mans arme, 

 couered with a blackifh greene rugged barke, the wood whereof is harder then of an 



Elder, 



