Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
together, placed from ioint to ioint by fpaces,fomewhat hoarie,very like vnto the leaues oiCytifal 
or Rue: among which come forth many fmallmolTie white floures, tuft fafbion, in Imall bundles 
like Nofe-gaies, and very like the floures of the Oliue or Oke tree, which turne into fmall roundifh 
bladders, as it were made ofparchment : wherein is contained blacke feed like wildeiw«j, but in 
tafte like the wilde tare : the whole plant is of an vnfauorie fmell • the root is thicke,and of a wood- 
die fubftance. 
2 The SpanilTi venomous Trefoile hath a wooddie ftalke,rough and hoary, diuided into other 
fmall branches, whereon do grow leaues like the precedent: the floures grow on the tops of the 
branches, whereon do grow leaues like thofeof the Peafe,and of a yellow, or rather greenifh colour, 
wherein it differeth from the precedent. 
Thefevenomous Trefoiles grow in Narbone,on the barren and ftonie craggie mountaines, at 
Frontignana,and about the fea coafts,and are ftrangers in England. 
Vorycn'mmpt is that poifonous or venomous plant wherewith in times paft they vfed to 
poifon their arrow heads, or rather weapons, thereby to do the greater hurt vnto thofe whom they 
did aflaile or purfue, whereupon it tooke his name: great controuerfie hath been among Herba- 
rifts,what manner of plant Dorycmam fhould be ; fome faying one thing, and fome another : which 
controuerfies and fundry opinions are very well confuted by the true cenfure of Rondeletim , who 
hath for a definitiue fentence fet downe the plant deferibed for the true Vorycniumfind none other, 
which may be called in Englifh, Venomous tree Trefoile. t Thefe plants do not fufficiently an- 
fwer to the defeription of Diofcorides, neither can any one fay certainly, that they are poifonous. % 
Dorycnium is very cold,withoutmoiftning. 
•y The Venues. 
^ Venomous Trefoile hath not one good qualitie that I can rcadqof,but it is a peflilent venomous 
plant,as hath been faid in the defeription. 
The Place. 
They flourifh from May to the end of lune. 
5f The Time. 
;ne. 
The Plumes. 
The Temperature. 
Chap, i 6. Of the fhruh Trefoile called alfo c5W a bate: 
height of foure or flue cubits, hauing final 
twiggie branches, ofadarke green colour, gar- 
nifhed with fmall leaues ofadeepegreene co- 
lour, alwaies three ioined together vpon little 
footftalks,like the Cytifus bu(h,orthe field Tre- 
foile, butfmaller : the floures be yellow , and 
round, diutded into flue or fix parts, not much 
vnlike the yellow Iafmine, which hath cau- 
ledmanyto call it yellow Iafmine, euenvnto 
this day : when the floures be vaded, there fuc- 
ceed final] round berries as bigas a Peafe, ofa 
black purplifh colour when they be ripe, which 
being broken will die or colour the fingers like 
Elder Berries : within thefe berries are contai 
neda fmall flat feed, like vnto Lentils: the root 
is long and fmall, creeping hither and thither 
vnderthe earth, putting forth new fprings or 
flioots in fundry places, whereby it wonderfully 
increafeth. 
It groweth plentifully in the countrey of 
Montpellier at New Caftle vpon the drie hills, 
andhot banks of the Oliue fields, and in thefto- 
ny fields and wood of Gramuntium : itgrowes 
in my garden, and in other Herbarifts gardens in 
England. 
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