The (jar den of pieafant (lowers. 
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Elder, but with an hollosvneffc like a pith in the heart or middle of thebranchcs, 
which are diuided many wayes, and whereon are fetat feuerall diftances, diuers win- 
ged leaues, compoled of many fmall round pointed, or rather flat pointed leaues,one 
fetagainft another, like vnto Licoris,or the Hatchet Fitch ; among thefe leaues come 
forth the flowers, in fafhioii like vnto Broome flowers, and as large, of a very yellow 
colour : after which appeare cleare thinne fwelling cods like vnto thinne transparent 
bladders, wherein are contained blacke feede, fet vpon a middle ribbe or finew in the 
middle of the bladder, which if ic be a little crufhed betweene the fingers, will giue a 
cracke, like as a bladder full of winde.The roote groweth branched and woody. 
2. Colut&i Scorpioidcs mnior. The greater Scorpion podded Baftard Sena. 
This Ballard Sena groweth nothing fo great or tall, butlhootethoutdiuerfly, like 
vnto a (hrub, with many (hoots fpringing from the root :the branchesare greener, but 
more rugged, hauing a white barke on the bed part of the elder growne branc lies ; 
for theyoung aregreene, and haue fuch like winged leaues fet on them as are to be feen 
in the former, but fmaller, greener, and more pointed : the flowers are yellow, but 
much fmaller, falhiontd (omevvhat like vnto the former, with a reddifh ftripedowne 
the backe of the vppermoft leafe: the long cods that follow are fmall, long and round, 
diftinguilhed into many diuifions or dents, like vnto a Scorpions tay le, from whence 
hath rifen the name : in thefe feuerall diuifions lye feuerall blacke feede, like vnto the 
feede of Fenigrecke : the roote is white and long, but not fo woody as the former. 
3 . Colutt.a Scorpioidcs minor. The lelfer Scorpion Baftard Sena. 
This leffer 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 T rent in Italie,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 isripein 
Auguft. The bladders of the firft will abide agreat while on the tree, if 
they be fuffered, and vntill the winde caufe them to rattle, and afterwards 
the skins opening, the feed will fall away. 
The Names. 
riiiv» rb 
The name Colutx* is impoled on them, and bytheiudgementof moft 
writers, the firft is taken to bee that Colutxx of Liptra that T heophraftus raa- 
keth mention of, in the feuenteenth chapter of his third booke. But I (hould 
rather thinke that the scorpioidcs were the truer CoUt.cn of Theophraftus, 
becaufethe long pods thereof aremoreproperly to bee accounted Jiliqust, 
then the former which are veftc<e tumentes, windy bladders, and not filiqu* : 
and no doubt but Theophraftus would haue giuen fome peculiar note of 
difference if he had meant thofe bladders, and notthefe cods. Let others of 
judgement be vmpeeres in this cafe ; although I know the currant ofwriters 
fince Matthiolus, doe all hold the former CoUt.cn vefuaria to be the true Co- 
Utxx cipnrx of Theophraftus. Wee call it in Englilh, Baftard Sena, from 
Ruellius, who as I thinke firft called it Sena, from the forme of the leaues. 
Thefecond and third (as I faid before) fromthe forme of the cods receiued 
their names, as it is in the titles and deferiptions ; yet they may as properly 
Recalled siliquoU, for that their fruite arc long cods* 
The 
