T * IB £ II. 
The Theater of Tlants, 
Chap* 31. nop 
j, 6. T ri/o turn fragiferumiFrifcum } & Lufit unit uni tomentofua. 
Strawbcry headed Trefoilcs of Frifhud and Portugall. 
} *• Spiea tri folia fefiucacea tnbabilu, & altera* 
The rare fpiked rulhie Trefoi!e a 
came not to maturitie with me, and mod of the other 
whereof I gathered ripe feede one yeare, by unkindly 
ycares that mil afterwards have petifhed likewife. 
6. Trifoliumfrugiferum Lujitanicum tomento/um m 
Strawberry headed Trefoile of Tortuga!!. 
This other hath fomewhat larger leaves than the Island 
pointed at the ends: the heads likewife at the toppes of 
the flaikes were fomewhat large atid round like chelaft, 
but all woolly, as it were or hoary : thispcrifhethyearely, 
with mee, and Mr. Tradefcmt, who had it from Boct 
ztLi/htexe, without bearing us ripe feede, and have not 
fince procured it from him againe. 
7. Trifolium veficarium lave. 
Smooth skinny headed Trefoile. 
This fmall Trefoile rifeth little above halfe a foote 
high, it hath three or foure flaikes with fmall leaves thereon, very (harpely dented about the edges, with long 
foote flaikes under them, the heads are made of fmall fmooth hoary skinnes in fafhion of little bladders, fet 
clofe one unro another, and out of each a fmall yellow flower, having fmall round flat feede afterwards in them ■ 
the roote is fmall, long white, and fibrous. 
8 . Trifolium veficarium afferum majui. The greater rpugh skinny headed Trefoile. f 
The leaves hereof are fomewhat round like the meddow Trefoile growing from the rooce, among whieh ccyns 
weake ftalkes two cubits high, upheld by the bufhes that it groweth among bare or naked to the toppes, bearing 
every one a (mall round head, covered over with rough threads, made of many fmall round skinnes like the 
ther, and deeper yellow flowers riling out of them. 
9. Trifoliurn veficarium ojperumminus. The Icffer skinny headed Trefoile: 
The roote hereof groweth aflope under the ground fattened therein by many threads: the branches likewife 
creepe upon the ground with hare flaikes, two or three inches long growing from them, bearing on each a fmall 
round head made in the like manner of many fmall round greenilh rough skinnes, out of which the flow ers 
procecde ofareddifti yellow colour, and within which a fmall browne feede licth. 
Io. Trifoliumeapitulu r hymi. Time headed Trefoile. 
This Trefoile from a fmall long white threaddy roote fendeth forth flaikes halfe ahandfull longfpread on the 
gronnd, with three lmalland round pointed leaves dented about the edges, and fmall round heads on the toppes 
ofthem fomewhat like the heades of Time, whofe flowers are of a deepe yellow, endiningto red, and being 
ripe, grow hard containing reddifh feede within them. 
11. Trifolium capitulooblongo affero. Long rough headed Trefoile. 
This rough headed Trefoile hath alfo a long white threaddy roote, and from them many flaikes of a foote long., 
being round fmooth, and j'oynted, ftored with hue few round leaves; from the l'everall joynts grow forth many 
fmall yellow flowers fet together, and after thefe rife fomewhat long and round heads, armed, as it were, with 
crooked fharpe prickes, which grow hard and rough being ripe, under each whereof is fet almallleafe, parted 
into three : the (eede of this is fmall as the former. 
ij. Spica Trifsilia fefiucacea mirabilit Gf altera. The rare fpiked rufhie Trefoilcs. 
Thefe rare Trefoiles are like one unto another in natuie,but a little differing in face and outward forme, both 
of them have (lender long rootes, from whence rife fundry rcddifU fpiked heades, out of which come many 
fine rul^i-like fprigges, and from among them, in the one a very few fmall Trefoile leaves, upon very fmall long 
white foote flaikes, as fine as haires; in the other a great number of the like fmall greene Tryfoile-likc leaves, on 
filch threaddy or haire-like flaikes, a little dented about the edges: from among which rile fundry flowers on 
the like [lender foote ftalkes, being fomewhat long, and white, like unto thofe of thellarrc Hyacinth imelling 
fweetc while they are frelh, (landing in huskes, wherein afterwards grow fmall. vyhite, round feede. I have 
■ placed 
