The Garden of f> leaf ant Flowers. 



Elder, hut with an hollownefle like a pith in the heart or middle of the branches, 

 which arc diuidcd many wayes, and whereon are let at feuerall diltanccs, diuers win- 

 ged lea ues, compolcd ot inanv I mall round pointed, or rather flat pointed leaues, one 

 let againlt another, like vnto Licon\ or the Hatchet Fitih ; amoiu; tliefc leaues come 

 forth the flowers, in falhion like vnto Broome flowers, and as large, of a very yellow 

 colour : after which appearc ck-.'iv thinnc I 'well ing cods like vnto thinni- tranfparent 

 bladdeo, wherein are contained blacke (cede, let vpon a middle ribbe or linew in the 

 middle of the bladder, which if it be a little crufhed betweene the lingers, will giuc a 

 cracke, like as a bladder full of winde. The rootc groweth branched and woody. 



2. Colutaa Scorpioi,ies maior. The greater Scorpion podded Baftard Sena. 



This Baltard Sena groweth nothing fo great or tall, but fhooteth out diuerfly, like 

 vnto a Ihrub, with many (hoots fpringing from the root : the branches are greener, but 

 more rugged, hauing a white barke on the bert part of the elder growne branches ; 

 for the young are greene, and hauc fuch like winged leaues fet on them as are to be feen 

 in the former, hut 1'maller, greener, and more pointed : the flowers are yellow, but 

 much fmaller, falhioned fomewhat like vnto the former, with a reddifh llripe downe 

 the backe of the vppermolt leate : the long cods that follow are fmall, long and round, 

 diftinguifhed into many diuilions or dents, like vnto a Scorpions tayle, from whence 

 hath rifen the name : in thefe feuerall diuilions lye feuerall blacke feede, like vnto the 

 feede of Fenigrecke : the roote is white and long, but not fo woody as the former. 



3. Colutcea Scorpioides minor. The lefler Scorpion Baftard Sena. 



This leller Baftard Sena is in all things like the former, but fomewhat lower, and 

 fmaller both in leafe, flower, and cods of feede, which haue not fuch eminent bunches 

 on the cods to be feene as the former. 



The Place. 



They grow as Matthiolus faith about Trent in Italic, and in other places : 

 the former is frequent enough through all our Countrey, but the others 

 are more rare. 



The Time. 



They flower about the middle or end of May, and their feede is ripe in 

 Auguft. The bladders of the firft will abide a great while on the tree, if 

 they be fuffered, and vntill the winde caufe them to rattle, and afterwards 

 the skins opening, the feede will fall away. 



The Names. 



The name Colutaa is impofed on them, and by the iudgement of moft 

 writers, the firft is taken to bee that Colutaa of Lipara that Theophraftus ma- 

 keth mention of, in the feuenteenth chapter of his third booke. But I mould 

 rather thinke that the Scorpicides were the truer Colutaa of Theophraftus, 

 becaufe the long pods thereof are more properly to bee accounted Jiliqua^ 

 then the former which are wjica tumentes, windy bladders, and notjfi/igua: 

 and no doubt but Theophraftus would haue giuen fome peculiar note of 

 difference if he had meant thofe bladders, and not thefe cods. Let others of 

 iudgement be vmpeeres in this cafe ; although I know the currant of writers 

 lince Matthiolus, doe all hold the former Colutaa ixfaaria to be the true Co- 

 lutaa Lipara of Theophrartus. Wee call it in Englifh, Baftard Sena, from 

 Ruellius, who as I thinke firft called it Sena, from the forme of the leaues. 

 The fecond and third (as I faid before) from the forme of the cods receiued 

 their names, as it is in the titles and defcriptions ; yet they may as properly 

 be called Siliauofa, for that their fruite are long cods. 



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