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filicjuoji- bccaule their long cods are more eminent to be Icene, which thall next follow, and the reft in their 
order. 
1 . Lotia e ’ulti Creticus. 
TrdoiL Pcalc of Candy. 
Chap. XXVIII. 
1. Lotus edulis Creticw. Trefoile Peafe of Candy. 
j; his Trefoilc Fulfeor Peafe fhooteth forth divers (lender (hikes fet with brownilh greene leaves at (c- 
verall difiances thereon ; three alwayes (landing on a foote (hike, which are fappy, a little thicke and 
pointed, the flowers are yellow, but like unto (mall Peale blotfomes, which are followed by round 
* ccds, fomewhat crooked, and great in comparifon of the fmalineflc of the plant, wherein lie round 
Peafe of a (wee te tafle. like unto our ordinary Peafe, and while they arc young and greeneufually fold in their 
markets, and ay much defired of them, as our Peafe with us; the whole Plant with (hikes and leaves are a little 
hairy : the roote is (mail, thready and annuall growing among their come, and in the borders of their Helds, 
2. Lotus cjxadripinnatis (tlicjuis. Square codded Peafe. 
This kinde of Fulle cr Peafe I have (hewed you in my former booke, that it hath a crimfon bloflbme,and long 
round cods, with foure filjr.es, two at one fide, and two at another. 
3. Arbus feu Lotus zAEyjptica. The Egyptian foure leafed Lotus, 
This fmall herbe growing not much above an hand breadth high, hath divers roHnd Trefoile-like leaves grow¬ 
ing on the hairy (lalke foure molt ufuall together, at the toppe whereof (tandech fundry white flowers, after 
whom the feede followeth that is like unto Pcare kcrnells in the huskes. 
4. LotusfjlveflriiCrcticw. Candy wildeTrefoile. 
This wildeTrefoile rifeth up with fialkesa foote high, having at each joynt two fmall leaves, and from thence 
three other fmall darke greene leaves, upon very flnort or no foote (talkes at all; the flowers are fmall and yel- 
lowjcomming forth both at the joynts and toppes of the (talkes,ufually two together, and fo many cods likewife 
corue up in their places, being very (mall, and long, with feede in them, as fmall as Muflard-feede : the roote is 
fmall and hard, yearely perifliing, the whole plant tafteth fomewhat like a PuKe, yet with a little bitterens and 
fourenefl'e therein which quickly vanifh away. 
5. Lotus pratenfis CMonffelienjium. Smooth codded Trefoile of Afompelier, 
This rifeth up with cornered and jointed (hikes a foote high, with leaves, ufually three together, 
more long than round ; the flowers are yellow, growing both at the joynts and toppes of the (hikes, after 
which come large and long cods, with feedes like Fenigrccke in them : the roote is lmall andlong, 
6 . Lotus ajperiorfruticofus . 
Rough Trefoile of Mompelier. 
This is like the lad, but chat the (hikes grow bigger, 
harder, and rougher, the leaves are narrower and 
hoary : the flowers arc yellow fee in hoary huskes 
fmaller than the former, and the feede letter alfo, 
7. Lotus fruticofus Gr.inatenfis, 
Sp.miJJj hoary hard Trefoile. 
This Trefoile found by Cluftus in Granado & Vale*, 
ti.i in Spdine , and referred by hrm to the Oxy try ply bum 
of Scribonius L irgiu rifeth a cubite high, with many 
branches, and three leaves ahvayes fee together, faith 
C L/jins, ( but fometimes foure faith Lobef if his be the 
fame; Jche flowers are fmall &vvhni(h,many growing 
in a round tufc toge; her, with fmall feede, afc. rthetn 
contained in fmall long cods; the roote is fomewhat 
great and thicke, and aftringent: Of this he maketh 
t wo forts, or.e whofe (hike is greene and the roote 
white, growing in moifl: places; the other withred- 
difh (hikes and branches, and the roote fomewhat red- 
difh, wherewith, as he faith, they ufe in thofe places 
to make a fyrope of good etfed againft the bloody 
flixe. 
8. Lotus bxmorrhoidxlis major jive Trifolium 
hxmorrhoidale tnajm. 
The greater Pile Trefoilc. 
The greater of thefe pile Trcfoiles, hath a long 
ftraight roote, fomewhat wooddy, with very few fi¬ 
bres at it, from whence rifeth up ufually but one (hike 
a cubite or twohigh,branched into divers hard wcakc 
flexible twigges, and they againe into other fmall bran¬ 
ches, bearing atevery joynt five leaves, two whereof 
(land clofc to the (hike, each upon a (mall foote (hike, 
and the other three rife betweene them, and higher 
than they upon another foote (hike like a Trefoile, the 
leaves and (hikes being all hoary, yet in the younger 
plants, oneiy the three leave (land together on a (hike 
Without 
