Of the Hiftroy of Plants. 
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L i B. 2. 
j fiockie hoarineife like Gnaphdmm, after the manner of mod of the fea herbes : the floures are yel- 
: low : the feeds wrinkled like the former, but in quantitie theybeleifer. 
The Place-. 
The firft is fowne in the fields of Germanie, Italy, and other countries, to feed their cattell, as 
' weinEngIanddoBucke-wheat:wehauea fmall quantitie thereof in our gardens, for pleafures 
j fake 
The third grovveth neere vnto the fea fide in diners places. 
The Time. 
Medica muftbe fowne in Aprill , it floureth in lime and Inly : the fruit is ripe in the end of Au- 
guft. 
The Thames. 
Medick fodder is called of CovaeTn folium Cochleattm,m& Medica ■■ in French herbe a Limaf- 
i fen : in Greeke,'M»A*j =' in Spanifh, Miclguas : of the Valentians and CatalonSjO^Z/a/^by aivordei- 
I ther barbarous or Arabicke : for the chiefe of the Arabian writers, Auicen, doth call Medica, Cot, A- 
1 Ujeleti, and Alfasfafa. 
The other is called Sea Clauer,and Medick fodder of the fea. 
TheTempcrature andVertues. 
Medick fodder is of temperature cold, for which caufe it is applied greene to fuch inflammati- A 
i ons and infirmities as haue need of cooling. 
Chap. 503. Of Wood Sorrell, or Stubmrt. 
1 Oxy alba. 
Whitevvood Sorrell. 
GnoULo ClaAos<M oe~ 
«[ The Defc rift ion. 
x /”V Xys Plinianapt Tri folium acctofum,bcinv a kind of three leafed graffe,is a low and bale 
I ) herbewithoutftalk-theleauesimmediatelyrifingfrom the root vpon fhort items 
at their firft comming forth folded together,but afterward they do fpred abroad, and 
are ofafaire light greene colour, in number three,like the reftofthe Trefoiles, but that eachleafe, 
hathadeepecleftor rift in the middle :amongft thefe leaues comevp fmall and weake tender 
items, fuch as the ieaues do grow vpon, which beare fmall itar-like floures of a white colour, with 
fomebrightnesofcarnationdafhtouerthefamerthefloureconfiftethof fine fmall leaiies ; after 
which come little round knaps orhuskesfullofyellowifh feed: the root is very threddy, and of a 
reddifh colour : thewhole herbe is in tafte like Sorrell, but much fharper and quicker, and maketh 
better greene fauce than any other herbe or Sorrell whatfoeuer. 
t My oft mentioned friend M r . George Bervles fent me fome plants of this with very faire red 
floures, which he gathered in Aprill laft, in a wood of Sir Thomas Walftnghams at Chiffelhurit in 
Kent, called Stockwell wood, and in a little round wood thereto adioyning. t 
2 The fecondkinde of Oxys orwood Sorrell is very like the former, failing that the floures are 
