1 ZOO 
Lib. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
other fome with bigger prickles ; as alfo with them {landing diners vvayes, home are onel jr rough 
and of thofe fome are as big as a fmall nut, other fome no bigger than a peafe. I giue you here the 
defcriptions of three rough ones, (as I receiued them from M r . Goodyer ) whereof the laft is of the 
fea, which, as you may fee, our Author did but fuperficially defcribe. 
2 Medicat maioris Batica fleciesprima , flinulis intort is. 
This hath foure fquarc reddifh {freaked hairy trailing branches, like the fmall Englifh Medtca, 
greater and longer, foure or fine foot Jong: the leaues are alfo fmooth, growing three together* 
neither fharpe pointed, nor yet fo broad at the top as the faid Englifh Medica,but blunt topped’ 
with a fmall blacke fpot in the midft, not crooked : the floures are alfo yellow, three, foure, or Sue 
on a foot-ftalke : after commeth a round writhed fruit fully as big as a hafell nut, with fma’ll pric- 
kles not (landing fore-right, but lying fiat on the fruit, finely wrapped, plaited, folded, or interla- 
ced together, wherein lieth wrapped the feed in faiTiion of a kidney, very like a kidney beane, but 
foure times (mailer, and flatter, of a fhining blacke colour without, like polifhed'Ieat ■ containing 
a white kc-rnell within: the root is like the former, and perifheth alfo at Winter. ’ 6 
CMcdiu maioris Baticm fltnoft flecies altera. 
The branches alfo creepe on the ground, and are flraked fmooth foure fquare, reddifh here and 
there, three or foure foot long : the leaues are fmooth, finely notched about the edges, fharp poin- 
ted, without blacke (pots,very like M cdicn^cri car pio, t piano : the floures are fmall and yellow like the 
Other . the fruit is round, writhed or twined in alfo, fully as bigas a hafell nut, fomewhat cottonie 
or woody, with {hort fharpe prickles : wherein ’lycth alfo wrapped aflrining blacke kidney-like 
feed, fo like the lafl deferibed, that they are not to be difeerned apart : the toot is alfo alike , and 
perifheth at Winter. 
Medical marina flinoja [frecies. 
Thebranches of this are the lead and. fhorteft ofall the reft, little exceeding a foot or two in 
length, and are foure fquare, greene, fomewhat hairie,and trailing on the ground : the leaues are 
like to thofe of Medtca per karpto piano, not fully fo fharpe pointed, without blacke fpots, loft, hairy 
three on a foot-ftalke: the floures grow alongfl the branches, on very fmall foot- ftalkes, forth of 
the bofomes of the leaues, (not al together on or neere the tops of the branches) and are very fmall 
and yellow, but one on a foot-ftalke: after commeth fmall round writhed fruit, no bigger than a 
peafe, with very fhort fharpe prickles, wherein is contained yellowifh feed of the fafhion ofa kid- 
ney like the former, and is thehardeft to be plucked forth of any of the reft •. the root is alfo whi- 
tifli like the roots of the other, and alfo perifheth at Winter. Aug. a. 162 1. lohn Goodyer, + 
3 T rifolium Cochlcatum marimtm, 
Medick Fodder of the fea. 
r-i? Jl lS r md A ri!l "°fTrefoil e , (called Medtca marina in Englifh, fea Trefoile, growing natu- 
ral v by the fea fide about Weftchefter, and vpon the Mediterranean fea coaft, and about Venice) 
hath leaues very like vnto the common medovv Trefoile, but thicker, and couered ouer wifo a 
flockie 
