Lib. x. Of the Hiftroy of Plants. 1187 
The Place. 
Common Medow T refoilc groweth in medowes, fertile paftures, and waterifh grounds. The 
I others loue the like foile. 
The Time. 
They floure from May to the end of Sommer. 
^The Names. 
Medow Ttefoile is called in Latine Trifolittmpratenfe:m High Dutch, USlfettfelCfdn low Dutch' 
I Clauetetl : in French .Treffle and Trainiere, and Vifumarus, as Marcellas an old writer teflifieth : in 
I Englifh, Common Trefoile, Three-leafed gra!fe:offome, Suckles, and Honi-fuckles, Cocksheads- 
I and in Irifh ^Shamrocks. 
«([ The Temperature. 
j The leaues and floures ofMedow Trefoiles arecold and drie. 
«J The Vertucs. 
The deco&ion of three leaned Graffe made with honie,and vfed in a clyfter, is good again!! the A 
j frettings and paines of the guts, and driueth forth tough and ilimie humours that cleaue vnto the 
1 guts. 
, " The leaues boiled with a little barrowesgreafe, and vied as a pultis, take away hot fwellings and g 
i inflammations. 
Oxen and other cattell do feed of theherbe, andalfo calues and young lambs. The floures are C 
j acceptable to Bees. 
Pliny writeth,and fetteth it downe for certaine,that the leaues hereof do tremble, and Hand right ]j 
j vp again!! the comming of a (lorme or tempe!!. 
The medow Trefoile (efpeciallythatwiththeblackehalfeMoonvpon the leafe)ftamped with g 
i a littlehonie, takes away the- pin and web in the eies,ceafeth the painc and inflammation thereof, if 
i it be ftrained and dropped therein. 
Chap. 495. Of finking Trefoile f)r Treacle QUuer, 
Trifolium hituminoftm. 
Treacle Clauer. 
«[ The Defcription. 
T Reacle Clauer groweth vpright like a 
fhrubbie plant, with ftalkes of a cubit and 
a halfe high,whereupon do grow next the 
ground broad leaues, 3 ioined together, thofe 
vpon the ftalkes are longer and narrower. The 
ftalks are couered ouer with a rough euill co- 
louredhairinefl'e: the leaues are of a dark black 
greene colour, and of a lothfome fmell, like the 
pitch called Bitumen ludaicum, whereof it took 
his name : the floures grow at the toppe of the 
ftalks, of adarke purplifh colour tending vnto 
blewne!Te,infhape like thofe of Scabious .-the 
feed isbroad, rough, long, and fharpe pointed: 
the root is fmgllandtender, and cannot indure 
the coldne!Teofourwinter,butperifhethat the ' 
fir!! approch thereof. 
«y The Place. 
It groweth naturally, faith Hippocrates Hippil 
atr<v,notC<;«,in rough places, as Ruellius tran- 
flateth it : in Germanie.France and England it 
neuer commeth vpof it felfe,but muft be fown 
in gardens, as my felfe haue proued diuers times, 
and was conftrained to fow it yearely,or elfe ic 
would not come vp, neither of his owne fowing 
or otherwife; 
% The 'time. 
It floureth not in my garden vntil the end of 
Auguft, The 
