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Q fbt (fat den of pleajant Flowers. 
not lo large : aliercheflowcrsarcpaft, there comein their places crooked flat thinne 
cods, of the falbion of a lialfe moonc, or crooked home, whitifh when they are ripe, 
wherein are contained blacktfh feede : the root? is hard and woody, fpreading diuers 
wayes vnder the ground : the whole plant hath a pretty fmall hot lent. 
Cjtifns vulgttitr. The common Tree T refoile. 
This Cytipis is the moll common in this Land, of any the other forts of tree trefoiles, 
hauinga blackilhcolourdbarke, the ftemme orbody whereof is larger then the for- 
mer, both for height and fpreading,bearuig alfo three leaues together, but fmallcr and 
greener then the former : the flowers are (mailer, but of the fame fafliion and colour: 
the cods blackifli and thin, and not very long, or great, but lefler then Broornrcods, 
wherein there lyeth fmall blackifli hard feede : the roote is diuerfly diipcrfed in the 
ground. 
;rfi. 
The Place. 
Thefirftgroweth in the kingdome of Naples, and no doubt in many 
other places of Italic, as Matthiolus faith. The other groweth iu diuers 
places of France. 
The Time. ^ 
They flowerforthcmoftpartinMayor lune : the feede is ripe in Au- 
guft or September. 
The Names. 
Thefirft(aslfaid) is thought of mod to be the true Cytifiet of Diofcori- 
des,and as is thought, was in thefe later dayes firft found by Bartholomams 
Maranta ofNaples, who fent it firdto Matthiolus, and thereupon hath cuer 
fin cc been e called after his nime, Cpt/us Maranl h<e. Some doe call it Cytifua 
Lnnatnt, becaufe the cods are made fomewhatlike vntoan halfeMoone. 
We call it in Englifh, Horned T reeTrefoile.The orher is called Crti/us vul- 
gati or vulgatur-, in Englifh, The common Tree Trefoile, becaufe we haue 
not any other fo common. 
TheVertues. 
The chiefeft vertucs that are appropriate to thefe plants, are to procure 
milke in womens breads, to fatten pullen,(heep &c.and to be good for bees. 
Chap. CXXIL 
Cilutaa. The Badard Sena Tree. 
W Ee haue in our Gardens two or three forts of the Badard Sena tree ; a 
greater as I may fo call ir, and two leffer : the one with round thin tran- 
f parent 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. 
x. ColttUa V tficaria. Thegreater Badard'Sena with bladders. 
This dirub or rree,or (hrubby tree,which you pleafe to call it, rifeth vp to the height 
of a oretty tree, the demme ordock being fometimes of the bigneffe of a mans arme, 
souvred with a blackifli grecne rugged barkc, the wood whereof is harder then of an 
Elder, 
