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Chap# II. Of baftard Sene. 
The Description. 
i f^'Olute , land Sene be foneere the one vnto the other in fhapeand (hew, that the vnskilful' 
Herbarifts haue deemed Colnt ea tobe the right Sene. This baftard Sene is a fhrubby 
plant growing to the forme of a hedge bufh or fhrubby tree : his branches are ftraight, 
brittle, and wooddy ;which being carelefly broken off, and as negligently prickt or ftuckein the 
ground, will take root and profper at what tiraeof the yeare foeuer it be done ; but dipt or cut, or 
planted in any curious fort whatfoeuer, among an hundred one will fcarcely grow : thele boughes 
or branches are befet with leaues like Sena or Sccuridaca, not much vnlike Liquorice:among which 
come forth faire broome-like yellow floures, which turne into lmall cods like the fownd of a fifh 
or a little bladder, which will make a cracke being broken betweene the fingers : wherein are con- 
tained many blacke flat feeds of the bigneffeof Tares, growing vpon a fmall rib or finew within- 
the cod : the root is hard, and of a wooddy fubftance. . 
I Colutea. 2 ColuteaSctrpiotdes. 
Baftard Sene. Baftard Sene with Scorpion cods. 
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2 Baftard Sene with Scorpion cods is a fmall wooddy fhrub or bufh,hauing leaues, branches, and 
floures like vnto the former baftard Sene, but leffe in each refpeft : when his fmall yellow floures 
are fallen there fucceed little long crooked cods like the long cods or husks of Matthiolus his Scor- 
pioides .whereof it tookehis name : the root is like the root of the Box tree, or rather refembling the 
roots o( Dulcamara ox Bitter-fweet,growingnaturally in the (hadowie woods ofValenain Nar- 
borie ■ whereof I haue a fmall plant in my garden, which may be called Scorpion Sene. 
5 * The low or dwarfe Coluteaoi Chtfius defeription, hath a thicke u r ooddy root couered with a 
vcllowifh barke.with many fibres anexecd. thereto, which bringeth forth yearely new fhoots.where- 
by it greatly encreafeth, of a cubit and a halfe high,fmooth, and of a greene colour ; vy hereon doe 
grow leaues compofed of fix or feuen leaues, and iometimesnine, let vpon a middle rib like thofe 
of the common kinde, ofa ftipticke tafte, with fome fharpnefleor biting : the floures grow vpon 
flendcr 
