Lib. 3. Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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2 Stinking Trefoile is a flirub like to a little tree,rifingvp to the height of fix or eight cubits 
or fcmetimes higher : it fendeth forth of the (talks very many (lender branches - the barke whereof 
is of a deep greene colour: the leaues (land alwaies three together, like thofe of Lotus ormedow 
Trefoile, yet of a lighter greene on thevpper fide : the floures be Iong,as yellow as gold .very like to 
thofe of Broome, two of three alfo ioined together .-after them come vp broad cods, wherein do lie 
hard fruit like Kidney Beanes, butlefler s at the firft white, afterwards tending to a purple, and laft 
of all of a blackifh blew:the leaues and floures hereof haue a filthy fmell.like thofe of the (linking 
Gladdon.and fo ranke withall,as euen the paflers by are annoied therewith. a 
1 t ^inagyris. ' s Anagyrufatida. 
Beane Trefoile. Stinking Beane Trefoile, 
t Of Anagyris there are foure kindes, two with (linking leaues jthe one with longifli leaues, the 
otherwith rounder. 
Two other whofe leaues do not ftink'e ; the oneof thefc hath fometimes foure or fine leaues on 
one ftalke,and the leaues arc long and large.The other hath them lefier and narrower, | 
«[f The Place. 
Thefegrowofthemfelues in mod places of Languedocke and Spaine, and in other countries 
alfo by highwaies fides.asin the Ifle of Candy, as PclLomm wtiteth: the firftl haue in my garden-, 
the other is a (Iranger in England, t Matter Trade [cant hath two forts hereof in his garden. $ 
The Time. 
They flourein Iune,and the feed is ripe in September. 
H Tk Names. 
The Beane Trefoile is called in Greeke Ww , which name remaineth vneorrupt in Candy euen 
to this day : in Latinealfo Anagyris, and Laburnum : of the people of Anagm in Italy named Eghelo, 
which is referred \nto Laburnum ,o{ which i 7 /»_ywriteth in his itf.booke, 18. chapter. In Englifh 3 
Beane Trefoile, or the Peafcod tree. 
The Temperature. 
Beane Trefoile, as Galen vvriteth,hath a hot and digefting faculty. 
the 
