Of the Hiftory of Plants. L 1 b . 3 
crooked fiat cods like a fickle wherein is contained the feed tailing like Cher or Lcgumen. The 
whole plant is hoaric like Rhtmnus, and being broken or bruifed fmelleth like Rocket. 
8 This eighth kinde oiCytifus, which Pern fetteth forth, is doubtlelfe another kinde of Cyti- 
fa, refembling the former in leaues,floures, and cods, fauing that the finall leaues (which are al- 
waies three together)area little fnipt about the edges : the whole plant is flenderer,fofter,and gree- 
ner, rather refembling an herbe than a fhrub : the root is fmall and lingle. 
9 This baftard or mif-begotten fhrub Trefoile,or baflard Cytijut, groweth vp like a fhrub, but 
not of a wooddy fnbftance, hailing tender ftalks fmooth and plaine : whereon do grow hairy leaues 
like the other, diuers fetvpon one foot-ftalke,contraric to all the reft : the floures grow along the 
Items like thofe of the ftocke Gillofloures, of a yellow colour : the root is tough and wooddy . 
Thefe plants were firft brought into Italy and Greece from one of the Ifles of Cyclades, called 
Cynthoor Cynthufa,and fince found in many places of France, as about Montpelier, Veganium, 
and other places : they are ftrangers in England, though they growvery plentifully in Scotland, as 
it is reported , whereof I hauc two forts in my garden, that is to fay ,Cytifus CMarantha, or the hor- 
ned Cytifiis, and likewife one of the fmalleft, that is to fay, the third in number. $ The fecond 
groweth in the garden of M r . lohn T radcfciwt. $ 
Thefe plants floure for the moft part in May, Iune, and Iuly,and fome after : the feed is ripe in 
September. 
The Grecians and Latines do call this fhrub »««*. of Cynthufa an Ifland before mentioned, in 
which place they are in great eftimation for that they do fb wonderfully feed cattell, and encreale 
tnilkc in their dugs, nourifh fheepe and goats, which bring yong ones good for ftore and increafe. 
One Author doth call thefe plants in Greeke k «'Swh that is to fay in Latine Fcecundumfcemm , fertile 
or fruitful! Hay, for that thekindes hereof caufe milke toencreafe,maketh good bloud and iuice, 
augmenteth ftrength, and multiplieth the naturall feed of generation : they may be called in Eng- 
lifh, milke Trefoile,of the ftore of tnilkc which they encreafe. 
8 Cytifu-s 8. 
The eighth fhrub Trefoile. 
9 Cytifus adult ermus, fine Alyffonftuticans. 
Baftard fhrub Trefoile. 
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