Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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$ 1 Trifolium filiqualitnata. 
Moone Trefoile. 
t 3 T rifel, angttjlifil. Alpnuw* 
Liquorice Trefoile. 
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$ 3 Trifolium ftimfum Creticimi 
Prickly Trefoile. 
3 This thornie Trefoile hath a long threddy root, from which arife many fhort brarxhed 
la Ikes fome twohandfulls high, cornered, and fpred vpon the ground , the ioynts, which are many,, 
ire commonly red, and armed with foure fharpe prickles,and out of each of them, vpon fhoTt foot- 
falkes grow two trifoile leaues, gteene,longifh, and ending in a little prickle : out of thefc ioynts 
tlfo grow little foot- ftalkes, which carry lingle floures made of flue little leaues, of the fhape and 
rolour ofthe little blew Bell-houre, with ten chines in the middle tint with yellow : after thefe 
ollow fine cornered fharpe pointed heads, containing a (ingle flat red feed in each corner. Cluyiiv 
et forth this by the name of T ri folium ftinofum Creticiw . the feed was fent out of Candy by the 
tame of ^ •. he queftions whether it may not be the true Tribulusierreftrisof Diofcorides. 
4 The roots, flalkes.and leaues of this pretty Trefoile do not much differ from the common 
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