11x6 Chap.^ 4 - 
'Tkeatrum Botanicam. 
Tr IB E II* 
Alter a 
icfla. 
7 c Medica echinata rotunda five Tribulus terrefiri, minor ripens Lugdunenfis, 
'■ keeping round prickly CUver. _ 
. j . i rbucr hath verv long branches trayling on the ground, with very (mall trefoile leaveson 
, r ,, like unto the firft true Claver, and dented about the edges, the flowers 
ar Jyellow and^he pods^very like to thole of Marantha his Cytifus, but yet is not the fame,this being an herbe 
and that a fhrubbe or bufh growing &iedic*tm rtovrra Jpetieicumfiliqua Storpioidis lent. 
high. Ocher torts or ^Aleaicm ol Nine fori? of Medicos and a pod of the fmooth Scorpion graffe. 
Ciavers are fee downe in my former 
Bo-ke of flowers, which together 
with all the other foits are not there 
expreffed, but fince ubteined, 1 have 
thought good to let in one table, thole 
are not formerly mentioned are thcle, 
which Medica tomato,(yc. 
9 . Medic* tornatamajor" 
<& minoris ler.ii. 
The greater and leffe fmooth Medi- 
w,turned like a Tun. 
Thefetwo forts differ not in their 
growing from tbs others but onely in 
their fruite, the greater whereof ftan- 
deth lingly one at a place, turned like 
to a Tun, and the letter hath many to¬ 
gether fmaller, which two arc ex- 
prefled the two firft in the generall 
Table. . 
I o. Medica tomato, jpinoja. 
The Thorny Tun lik c Medica. 
This alfo hath the chiefe difference in the fruit, which is fomewhat like a Tun, but a little thorny or more like 
unto a fine wrought hairebutcon,many together which is the fixe figure in the Table. 
The Place and Time. 
The firft groweth naturally both in many places of Spaine and in France neare Montpelier alfo, yet is it fowen in 
rnanv places both there and in other cotimries,to ferve for Hay for their Cattell and Horfes and cut it often, for 
in Spaine they have no other hey which fetdeth their Horfes and maketh them exceeding fat, and fo doe they 
in the Low countries,whereby their Kine give the more abundance of Milke : the others grow fome in France 
others in Spaine or Germany, and fome of them alfo are found in our fields and mar fines, as Woolwich, Dept¬ 
ford } &c. 
The Thames, 
The firft is taken by the mod judicious of our later writers to be the uiJhtn of Dio/corides, which as Pliny faith 
was brought from the Meies into Greece by the Eerfian Darius hiswarres therefrom whence came the name 
Adcdicaas the Meiicum malum the Pomecitron was alfo : but now from Italy being brought and fowen for the 
benefit thereof in the fields of Bclgia and the bordering places, and firft in Burgonie or "Burgundy hath altered the 
old name into Feenum hurgundiacum and ol late regained the old name, and called Medica legitime, none as it is 
faid berrer a°reeing with Diofcorides his delcnption in all things then this: Gerard was much deceived in faying 
that Lobel his Foenum Bure undine urn was the Tr .folium cochleatum primum of Dodoneus in his laft edition, foi it is 
his Medic *in the next Chapter following,as any thac will compare them lhali foonefinde : the fecondisof 2?4«- 
bi'.iti in his Prodromusfiiftt we having it growing plentifully in our land doe ufually call it Medica racemofa ; 
the third C lit fiat calleth Medica flaw, flore,and Baubinm Trifolium fjlvcflre Ititeum filiqua comma five Medica jru. 
tefem. and Tabcrmontanm Lens major repens as he iaith : the fourth (filufw firft called Medica marina and fodoe 
Label (famesarins and others : the fife is of the number of Boel his Spanifb Medicas, whereof wee had a dozen or 
foil-eteene forts the (ixt Camerarim calleth Medica Arabica and is generally called Tr,folium cordatum : 
r c two next are Lugdnnenfis b'isTribnhu terreftrii minor repens and reS’tt, which Camerarim calleth Medica pu- 
f li ; the two lall ate lately knowne.The firft ol thefe is by Avicen and the Arabians called Cot and Alfialftfat but 
corruptly-by the Spaniards Allafalfaga and Alfalfes, but by thefe of Caflile Mielguas ; by the French SainBfom and 
Fain de "Bourgongue, we call it Medick, Fodder and Snaile Claver, or Trefoile. 
The Tenues, 
The life of this firft herbe was in former times more to feede Cattell then in medicines, for it was held to be fo 
powerfull to fatten their Horfes and other beafts that they would ftint them toaquantitie for feareoffuffocating 
them,by growing thereby too fat, thegreene herbe faith Dtofcorides hath a cooling propertie, and for that pur- 
pofe chiefely tobeufed, yet sMvicen commendeth the oyle made of Cot or Alfalfafat againft the tremblings of 
the heart, Cjefncr iaicli that a liquor drruven by fire out of the Alfalfes of the Spaniards is good againft the Stone, 
I fuppofe he meanethan oyledrawen out of the feede, as the oyle from Almonds. Plutarch in his booke againft 
Epicurus reciteth a pretty ftmilitude taken from this Medica .Fven as (faith he) the feed of CMedica abidethalong 
time by reafon of his many winding branches creeping on the gronnd, and by his fharpe roughnefte, even fo 
g. eefe having fattened his crooked roores in ones body,cleaveth thereto not for a day or a night, but for many 
veares. and is hardl expelled out by other greefes as by ftronger naiies. The reft here mentioned in this Chapter 
are not uled againft any difeafe that I know. 
C H A t. 
