Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 
3 The third kind of Melilot hath round ftalks and ragged, leaues fet round about, not much vn - 
i; like the Ieauesof Fcnugreeke,alvvaies three growing together like the Trefoiics, and oftentimes 
couered oucr with an hoarinefTe,as though meale had been ftrewed vpon them. The floures be yel- 
low and fmall, growing thicke together in a tuft, which turnc into little cods, wherein the feed is 
contained : the root is fmall, tough, and pliant, 
4 The fourth kinde of Melilot growes to the height of three cubits, fet full of leaues like the 
common Melilot, and of the fame fauour : the floures grow alongll the top of the ftalks, of a white 
colour, which turnc into fmall fofthuskes, wherein is contained little blackifh feed: the root is 
Melilot as Germanic,!. 
Germane Clauer. 
3 Melilot ui foronata, 
Kings Clauer. 
$ Although our Author intended this la ft. defeription for our ordinarie Melilot, yet he made 
it of another which is three rimes larger, growing in fome gardens (where it is onely fowne)aboue 
two yards high, with white floures and many branches : rhe whole fhape thereof is like the com- 
mon kinde, as far as I remember. The common Melilot hath weake cornered greene ftalkes fome 
two foot and better high , whereon grow longifh leaues fnipt and oftentimes eaten about the ed- 
ges, of a frefh greene colour .-out of the bofomes of the leaues come little ftalkes l'ome handful! 
long, fet thicke on their tops with little yellow floures hanging downe and turning vp again, each 
floure being com poled of two little yellow leaues, whereof the vppermoft turnes vp again, and the 
vndermoft feemes to be parted into three. The floures paft, there fucceed little cods wherein is 
the feed. | 
The Place, 
Thefe plants grow in my garden : the common Englifh Melilot Pena fetteth forth for Melilot ns 
Germ amc a ■ bucforcerraintieno part of the world doth enioy fo great part thereof as England, 
and efpecially Eflex • for I bane feene betweene Sudbury in Suffolke,and Clare in Eflex, and from 
C lare to Heningham, and from thence to Ouendon, Bulmare, and Pcdmarlh, very many acres of 
eatable paftureovergrovvne with the fame ; infonruch that it doth not oncly fpoyle their land, but 
the corne alfo, as Cockle or Darnel, and as a weed that generally fpreadfith oner that corner of the 
Shire. 
liiii Stfbs 
