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Of the Hiftory of Plants: 
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1 B. 2. 
<^f The Names. 
'■ Hare- foot Trefoile is called of Tragus ,Cytifus * of Cordus,T rijo h u m ?u .v? si u ?n- /of LoL firs 
Lagopum maximum, and Lagopodium ■ in Grceke, *«»*»»»«•■ in Englifh, thereat Hares- foot 
the laft, being the fmalleft of tbefe kindes of Trefoiles, is called L.gopus. and p< s Leper is ■ in 
Dutch, J|afcn pootliCtlg : in high Dutch, i^afctl fuf? : in French, Pud del, cure , in Englifh Hare 
foot. ’ 5 
*T The Temperature and Ter! lies. 
The temperature and faculties are referred vntotheother Trefoiles, whereofthefe arc kindes • 
notvvith (landing Diofcondes faith, that the fmall Hares- foot doth binde and dry. It ftonpc'h faith 
he, the Iaske, if it be drunkevvith red vvir.e.But it muft begiuen to fuch as are feuerifh with water. 
Chap. 45)8. Of JVatcr Trefoil e } or Tucks "Beanes. 
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The T>efc r iptioH. 
1 *T'He great Mar (h Trefoile hath thicke 
1 fat llalkes/veakeand tender, full of a 
fpungious pith, very fmooth,and ofa cubit lon^: 
whereon do grow leaues like to thofe of the gar- 
den Beane, let vpon the ftalkes three joined to- 
gether like the other Trefoiles, fmootb,fhining, 
and of a deepe greene colour .-among which to- 
ward the top of the ftalkes ftandeth a bulli of 
feather like floures ofa white colour.dafht oner 
flightly with a wafh of light carnation -after 
which the feed followeth, contained in frnall 
buttons, or knobby huskes, ofa browne yellovv- 
ifn colour like vnto Millet, and ofa bitter tafte: 
the roots creepe diners vvaios in the middle ma- 
riili ground, being full of joints, white within, 
and full of po'-es.and fpungie, bringing forth di- 
uers by-flioots, ftalkes, and leaues, by which 
meanes it is eafily increafed, and largely multi- 
plied. 
3 The fecond di ffereth not from the prece- 
dent, failing it is altogether lefter, wherein con- 
fifteth the difference, if there be any: fordoubt- . 
leffe I thinke it is the felfe fame in each refpedi, 
and is made greater and leffer, according to his 
place of growing, clymate.and countrey. 
«1 The Place. 
Thefegrovvin marifh and Fenny places, and 
vpon boggie grounds almofteuery where. 
The Time. 
They floureand flourifli from Iune to the end of Auguft. 
•1 T he Names . 
Marifh Trefoile is called in high Dutch 25ibcrfelce, that Is to ky,eaPrisTri&um,orTrifolism 
fbrwumm low Durch,cf the hkeneffe that the leaues hauewith the garden Beanes, 230ttb00incrt 
tbauj vo Cay aftusH.nmus, ox BeomHtnina: the later Herbarifts call it Tri folium tlX, a "d 
faludefum-oi fom ep/opyrum : m Englifh, marlE-Clauer,marfh-Trefoiie, and Buekes-Bcanes 
f The Temperature and vert, ees. 
The feed oflfopyrtmSmb Tsiof 'rides . ,if it be taken with meade or honied water, is good again ft 
the cough and pame in the cheft. 3 
It is al fo a remedy for thofe that haue weake liners and fpet blond, for as Galen faith it denfeth 
and cuttcth tough humours, hailing allb ad joined with it an aftringent or binding quality. 
