L i b . 3 . Of the HiHory ©f Plants. \itfj 
are many,ftraight and thorny like CenifielU, wherein are many fmall white and three cornered feeds 
as big as muftard feed, f This differs from the former in that it is fmaller, and Iofeth the leaues 
cuery Winter, when as the former keepes on the leaues vntill new ones come in the Spring. The 
middle rib of the winged leaues ends in a pricke, which by the falling of the leaues becommeth a 
long and naked thorne. I hane giuen you a more accurate figure hereof out of Cluftut, wherein the 
leaues, floures, cods, and feeds are all exprefled apart. $ 
3 The Grecians bane called this plant beCaufe it is good for the finewes : it fhould 
feeme it tooke the name Poterion, of Potrix, becaufe it loueth a watry or fenny foile : it hath fmall 
branches, and leaues of Tragucautha, growing naturally in the traft of Piedmont in Italy : it fprea- 
deth abroad like a fhrub : the barkc or rinde is blackifh,and dry without great moifture,very much 
Writhed or wrinkled in and out as that oiNepa or Corruda the fharpe pricks (land not in order as 
Traractmth* , but confufedly, and are finer and three times lelfer than thofe of Tragacmtha, growing 
much after the manner of Ajlragalus : but the particular leaues arc greene aboue, and white below, 
lhaped fomewhat like Burnet : the feed is fmall and red, like vnto Sumach, but lefler. 
f Tragacamhaminoris icon accuratior. f 3 Poterion Loh.Jiue Pimpindh fpinoftCdmer] 
A better figure of the Goats-thorne. Burnet Goats-thorne. 
«]■ The Place. 
Petrus Bellonius in his firft booke of Singularities reports, that there is great plenty hereof grow- 
Ing in Candy vpon the tops of the mountaines. Theofbrafius faith that it was thought togrow no 
where but in Candy ; but now it is certaine that it is found in Achaia, Peloponeflus,and in Ana j 
it doth alfogrow in Arcadia, which is thought not to beinferiour to that ofCandy.lt is thought 
by Lobel to grow in Languedock in France, whereof T heophr . hath written in his ninth booke, that 
the liquor or gum ifliieth out of it felfe,and that it is not needfull tohauethe root broken or cur. 
The bed is that,(aith Diofcoridcs, which is through-fhining, thin, finooth,vnmixt, and Ivveet ofimel 
and tafte. . 
The Time. 
They floure and flourifli in the Sommer moneth : I haue fowne the feed of Poterion in April!, 
which I receiued from loachimus C timer arias of Noremberg, that grew in my garden two yeares to- 
gether, and after perifhed by fomemifchance^ ^ 
