Lib. 3. Of the Hiftory of Plants. ijoi 
6 There is alfo found another fort hereof, not much differing from the former, fauino- t bar 
this plant is greater in each refpe£t, wherein efpecially confifteth the difference. 
% The Place. 
Colutca or baftard Sene groweth in diners gardens, and commeth.vp of feed ; it quickly com- 
meth to perfc£tion,infomuch that ifafticke thereof bebroken off and thruft into the ground, it 
quickly taketh root, yea although it be done in the middle of fummer,or at any other time,euen as 
the flicks of Willow or Elder, as my felfe haue often prooued . the which bring forth floures and 
fruit die nextyeere after. 
The fecond with Scorpion cods groweth likewife in my garden: the laft doth grow in diuers 
barren chalky grounds of Kent towards Sittinbourne, Canturbury, and about Southfleet • I haue 
not feene them elfewhere : the reft are ftrangers in England. 
The Time. 
They floure from May till fummer be well fpent, in the meane feafon the cods bring forth ripe 
feed. 
The Names. 
This fhrub is called of Theoykrajlus in Greeke >*•>» with the diphthong - in the fecond fil- 
Iable-.in Latine,as Gam expounded it, Colonies or Colutca: in high Dutch, I©clfch linfetl-in 
French .Baguenaudier-: they are deceiued that thinkc it to be Sena, or any kindc thereof , although 
we haue followed others in giuing it to name Baftard Sene, which name is very vnproper toit : in 
low Dutch it is called <§>me boom t and we may vfe the famenamc Sene tree, in Englifh. 
This Calutea , or baftard Sene, doth differ from that plant with v in the fecond fyllable,of 
which Colytca,T heofhrajlus writeth in his third booke. $ The fifth is the Poljgala Valentina of ctu- 
fius. t , , 
«T The Nature and Venues. 
Thcophraftn*) neither any other hath made mention of the temperature or faculties in working A 
of thefe.plants,more than that they are good to fatten catcell, efpecially fljeepe. 
t There were formeil/in the fifth and fixth places here two figures no waics different, but that which wasintne IMi place was • little larger, and Loltlt title 
which he putsin hi- lc at/,-»uc chi* war Uimdcd bctwccnc thcm:for as yon fee, C olutti nmw.fia Cvrmifynisouci in the fifeh s and Colutcj,fuu TolygalaVafentina 
Clufii wasouer the fix th- 
Chip, iz. Of Liquorice, 
7 he Defer iftion. 
t 'T'He firft kinde of Liquorice hath many wooddy branches, rifing vp to the height of two 
* or three cubits, befet with leaues of an ouerworne greene colour, confiding of 
many fmall leaues fet vpon a middle rib, like the leaues of Calutea, or the Maftich tree, fomewhat 
glutinous in handling : among which come fmall knops growing vponfhort items betwixt the 
leaues and the branches, cindering together, and making a round forme and fhape: out of which 
grow fmall blew floures, of the colour of an Englifh Hyacinth ; after which fucceed round, rough, 
prickly heads, confi fting of diuers rough or fcaly huske s clofely and rhicke compact together ; in 
which is contained a flat feed: the root is ftraigbt, yellow within,and browne without :ofafweet 
andpleafant,tafte. 
2 The common and vfuall Liquorice hath ftalkes and leaues very like the former, fairing that 
his leaues are greener and greater, and the floures of a light Chining blew colour : but the floures of 
this are fucceeded by longifh cods that grow not fo thicke cluftring together in round beads as 
the former, "but fpike fa fh ion, or rather like the wilde Vetch called onohrychu, or Gale? a ■ the cods 
arc fmall arid flat like vnto the Tare : the roots are ofa brownifh colour without, and yellow within 
like Box, and f.veeter in tafte than the former. 
The Place. 
Thefe plants do grow in fundry places of Germany wilde, and in France and Spaine,but they 
are planted in gardens in England, whereof I haue plenty in my garden : the poore people of the 
North parts of England do manure it with great diligence, wherby they obtain great plenty there- 
oFreplanting the fame once in three or fonre yeares . 
T he T irfie. 
Liquorice floureth in Inly, and the feed is ripe in September. 
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