U he garden of plea) ar,t Flowers* 4 
large or open, growing about a very long branch or ftalke, fometimes a good fpan or 
more in length, and of a faire yellow colour, but not very deepe . after which come 
flat chin cods, not very long or broade, but as tough and hard as the cods of Broome- 
wherein are contained blackifli (cede, like, but much Idle then the (cede of Ananris 
vera (which areas bigas a kidney beane, purplifh and fpotted) : theroote thrufteth 
down deepe into theground,fpreading alfofarre,andis of a yellowiih colour. 
The Place. 
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This treegroweth naturally in many of thewoods of Italic, andvpon 
the Alpcs al fo, and is therefore ftill accounted to be that Laburnum that Pli- 
nie calleth Arbor Alpina. It gro weth in many gardens with vs. 
The Time. 
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It flowreth in May,the fruit or cods, and the feedes therein are ripe in the 
end of Auguft, or in September. 
TheNames. 
This tree (as I faid before) is called of Matthiolus Anagyris altera. fiueTe- 
eunda, of Cordus, Gefner and others, efpecially of moft now adayes, z«. 
burnum. It is probable in ray opinion, that this (hould bee that Colutaa of 
Theophraftus, mentioned in the fourteenth Chapter of his third book with 
thelcafeof a Willow ; for if yon take any oneleafeby it felfe,it may well 
refemble a W Blow leafe both for forme and colour, and bcareth fmall feed 
in cods like vnto pulfcas that doth. Of fome it hath beene taken for a kinde 
of Cytifiu, but not truely. WecallitinEnglilh,BeaneTrefoile, in regard 
of his cods and feedc therein , fomewhat like vnto Kidney Beanes andof 
, theleaues, three al way es (landing together, vatill a more proper name 
may bee giuen iti 
The Vermes. 
There is no vfe hereof inPhyficke withvs, nor in the natural! place of 
thegrowmg, faue only to prouoke a vomit,which it will doe very ftrongly,' 
Chap. CXXI. 
Cytifus. TreeTrefoile. 
T Here are fo many forts of Cytifiu or T rec trcfoilcs, that if I fhould relate them 
all, I (hould weary the Reader to oucrlooke them, whereof the moft part per- 
taine rather to a generali worke then to this abftradt. I (hall not therefore trou- 
ble you with any fupcrfluous,but only with two, which we haue nourfed vp to furnifts 
wafte places in a garden. 
Cytifiu Maranth a. Horned T ree Trefoile. 
This T ree T refoile which is held of moft Herbarifts to bee the true Cytifiu of Dio- 
fcorides, vifeth vp to the height of a man at the moft, with a body of the bignefle of a 
mans thumbe,coueved with a whitilh bark, breaking forth into many whitilh branches 
fpreading farre,befet in many places with fmall leaues, three alwayes fet together vp- 
on a fmall (hort footeftalke, which arc rounder, and whiter then the leaues of Beane 
Trefoile : attheendsof the branchesforthemoft part, comeforth the flowers three 
orfourctogethers, of a fine gold colour, andof the faftiion of Broome flowers, but 
