? Tragon Matthiolgai rather Trdgos improhus^Manhioli, which hevnaduifediy called Tragon,! 
1 without controuerlie nothing elfe but a kinde of Kali : this plant rifeth vp out of the ground with 
I Italks (eldome a cubite high.diuided into funary other gro(fe, thicke,and writhen branches, fet,or 
armed with many pricking leaues, of the colour and (hape of A'z,oon> and fomewhat thicke and fle- 
fhie . among which come forth inch prick ley burres,as are to befeen in Tri lulus tcrrejlris , as that it 
is hard for a man to touch any part thereof without pricking of the hands : the floures are of an 
herbie colour, bringing forth flat feed like vnto Kali : the root is (lender, and fpreadeth vnder the 
turfe ofthe earth : the whole plant is full of clammie iuice,not any thing aftringent,but fomewhat 
laltifh,and of no lingular vertue that is yet knowne therefore I may conclude, that this cannot be 
Tragos Diofcoridis ,and the rather.for that this Tran on of Matthiolus is an herbe, and not a ihrub as I 
lraue before fpoken in vhtm.mnt, neither beareth it any berries or graines like wheat, neither ts it 
pleafant in tafte and fmell.or any thing aftringent, all which are to be found in the right Tragos be- 
foie exprefled; which fas Diofcoi ides faith)is without leaues, neither is it thorney as "tragus improhss 
Matthtoli isithis plant 1 haue found growing in the Ifle of Shepey,in the trafi leading to the houfe? 
of Sir Edmard Hobby, callc-d Aerland. 6 
The Place. 
It loueth to grow vpon dry banks and fandy places neere to the lea:it is foimd in Languedocke 
t far from Montpelier,and in other places by the (ea fide, and is a ftranger in England. 
tp The Time, 
\\ hen it groweth of it felfe the fruit is ripe in Autumne,the plant it felfe remaineth long greem 
for all the cold in Winter. 
tp The Thames. 
It is called ofthedater Herbarifls ,Vua marina : in French, Raifm de Mcr, ofthe pearled fruit, and 
the likeiiefte that it hath with the Rafpis berrie, which is as it were a Raifonor Grape, confiding of 
many littVones : i f is named in Greeke but it is not called Tragus gsx T raganosfif a Goat "(for 
fo fignifieth the Greeke word) or of his raiike and rammilh fincll,but bccaufc it bringeth forth 
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