Tk I b e 16. The Theater of''Plants. Chap,54. 1471 
Chap. L I V. 
Cytiftu. Tree Tretoile. 
S Aving in the lad Chapter (hewed you a Trcfoile Iafminc, which fome as I Paid, take to be a Cytiftu, 
I thinke it not amiffe to fet dcwr.e thekindes of Cytiftu, neat unto it, and becauie there is luclidi- 
verfity among them, I would diftinguifh them into two forts, that is, into the right Cytijm, and 
thofe that come neerefl untoit: and into abafiard kmde, that is fome that arc very unlike in ma¬ 
ny things,although like in fome,and others like in many yet unlike in fometthe fweecnefle in their 
tafte and whireneffe in their leaves and flalkes, declaring their nighntfl'e unto the true lort: their 
blackneffe andbitterneffe,to the ballard kindes: ot the full we will Ipeake in this Chaptered of the other in the 
next. 
Cytiftu Gfileuicredittu ,CMara«W£ Cormtut. 1 he luppoled tmzCjtiftu or horned trecTrefoile. 
ThisCytifut (as GWe» laith groweth to the height of the Myrtle, or as 'Thuy, Columella, and Sir abate, to the 
heighth of a meane treeJwhich many tookc as Lugdmenps laich,for no oiher then the Med,c,i Lmata , and is yet 
deferibed by "Befler, as it grew in the Bilhop of Syfiot his harden (to be in fome lore anfwerable to what Matthio- 
Am fetteth forth of it, for acknowledging his former errour, in miftaking the Tripoli,imcaballinum to be Cytiftu, 
and finding in Galen Cytiftu was a Ihrub and not an herbe, he (heweth this plant, which he received from Cortu- 
ftu as the right, and therefore could be no Medica, which is a lmall creeping herbe, as all the forts are) and grow- 
ethtobe two cubits high,covered with a grayifhor afh-coloured barkc, the wood whereof is firme and hard, 
the leaves are hoary white, as is the whole fhrub, and grow without order three together on long footellalkess 
the flowers are of a gold yellow fhining colour like unto Broome: the feede growetti in broad crooked cods, 
a. Cytiftu Creticxs incanm five SbcmuCrcticaBelli. Candy Trefoi!e,or Candy Ebony. 
This Candy plant rifeth up to above a mans height,that is,fourc or five cubits growing writhed or crooked, and 
of the thicknefle of ones arme, covered with an alb-coloured barke,the leaves are gray or white, longer and nar¬ 
rower then the former, and grow not alwayes three, butlometimesfourcorfivc, upon along footeltalke, the 
flowers grow at the endsol tlrebraiKhes, in a tuft together like unto thole of the Medow Treloilc, or common 
three leaved grade, of a gold red colour, and greater then they : in the middle of each flower (land many filvcr 
white fhining threds,as fine as haircs, kc in grayifhhuskes,wherein the feed is enclofed afterwards, which is like 
unto that Trcfoilc likewife : the wood is very firme and madie.and of the colour of blacke Ebony,from whence 
Honorius Belli , did call it fo. 
j. Cytiftu iucanui Germmicm, 7 he Germane hoary tree Trcfoilc. 
This Germane Cytiftu fhooteth from the rootefundry {lender hoary flalkes, with three fomewhat long leaves, 
at fundry places of them fomewhat hoary alfo on the bacfctfide.more then on the upper part,the middle rib being 
iomewhat great,of a kind of iweerilli tafte,and a little iweete in fent alfo .* the flowers are yellow like the other 
lores or Broome flowers, Handing many together one above i ■ Cyti'ut Gricni credits m uantba Comuiiu. 
another at the end of the branches, alter which follow hai- The Sippoled true Cytifu. or nee Ticfollc. 
ry, and fomewhat hoary, little long, narrow and flat 
cods, containing therein fmali feed like broome,tailing like 
a Vetch: therooteis wcoddy, difperling it lelfe under 
ground divers wayes. 
4. Cytiftu Hisfanicm arbaretu. 
The Spamfh tree Cytiftu, or treeTrcfoile. 
This Cycifus rifethup with one fternmc ulually, covered 
with a darke gray ifh bar ke to the height o! a man,faith Clu- 
fiui InSpaine, but higher with us, Ipreading fundry fliort 
branches all about,\c hereon are lmall pale green:fh Tretoile 
leaves,on the upper fide,and let with a little reddifh hairs - 
nefle underneath, the yellow flowers are fomewhat longer 
then others, and come forth atthelooteof the leaves, 
in (undry places, ulually two or three at a place, which 
turnc into fmali (hoi t and flat cods,lcfler then Broome cods, 
and fomewhat blackilh when they are ripe containing fmali 
flat and blackilh leed within them us fmali as Broome feed, 
as we have obfetved them, although Clufuu (aith hee faw 
nones 
5. Cytifut incamu major foli/s pmnatupve 
ejtlinti fpecies filter fi Clupj, 
The great hairy tree Treloilc. 
This groweth greater and move upright then the third by 
much, whofe branches alfo are thicker and more hairy: the 
leaves are twife as big.the flowers of a deeper gold yellow 
colour and the cods larger. 
6 , Cytiftu Hijpanictu incamupvefexttu Clupj, 
The low Spani/b hoary Cytiftu. 
Thefhootcs of this Cytifus are not above halfe a yard 
long.flender and hoary,whofe Trefojle leaves on them have 
the two lowed (mailer then the middlemoft, which is twife 
as long, but of an hoary alh-colour,Handing on fhort footc- 
flalkes, ol an aftringent drying tafte,the flowers Hand with 
