Chap. CXX.Laburnum.Beane Trefoile.There be three sorts of these codded trees or plants, one neere resembling another, whereofAnagyrisof Dioscorides is one. The other two are calledLaburnum; the larger whereof Matthiolus callethAnagyris altera, and so doe some others also: the third is of the same kinde with the second, but smaller. I shall not for this our Garden trouble you or my selfe with any more of them then one, which is the lesser of the twoLaburnum, in that it is more frequent, and that it will far better abide then theAnagyris, which is so tender, that it will hardly endure the winters of our Countrey: and the greaterLaburnumis not so easily to be had.Laburnum.Beane Trefoile.This codded tree riseth vp with vs like vnto a tall tree, with a reasonable great body, if it abide any long time in a place, couered with a smooth greene barke; the branches are very long, greene, pliant, and bending any way, whereon are set here and there diuers leaues, three alwaies standing together vpon a long stalk, being somewhat long, and not very narrow, pointed at the ends, greene on the vpperside, and of a siluer shining colour vnderneath, without any smell at all: at the ioynts of these branches, where the leaues stand, come forth many flowers, much like vnto broome flowers, but not solarge or open, growing about a very long branch or stalke, sometimes a good span or more in length, and of a faire yellow colour, but not very deepe; after which come flat thin cods, not very long or broade, but as tough and hard as the cods of Broome; wherein are contained blackish seede, like, but much lesse then the seede ofAnagyris vera(which are as big as a kidney beane, purplish and spotted): the roote thrusteth down deepe into the ground, spreading also farre, and is of a yellowish colour.The Place.This tree groweth naturally in many of the woods of Italie, and vpon the Alpes also, and is therefore still accounted to be thatLaburnumthat Plinie callethArbor Alpina. It groweth in many gardens with vs.The Time.It flowreth in May, the fruit or cods, and the seedes therein are ripe in the end of August, or in September.The Names.This tree (as I said before) is called of MatthiolusAnagyris altera,siue secunda, of Cordus, Gesner and others, especially of most now adayes,Laburnum. It is probable in my opinion, that this should bee thatColutæaofTheophrastus, mentioned in the fourteenth Chapter of his third bookwith the leafe of a Willow; for if you take any one leafe by it selfe, it may well resemble a Willow leafe both for forme and colour, and beareth small seed in cods like vnto pulse as that doth. Of some it hath beene taken for a kinde ofCytisus, but not truely. We call it in English, Beane Trefoile, in regard of his cods and seede therein, somewhat like vnto Kidney Beanes, and of the leaues, three alwayes standing together, vntill a more proper name may bee giuen it.The Vertues.There is no vse hereof in Physicke with vs, nor in the naturall place of the growing, saue only to prouoke a vomit, which it will doe very strongly.
Chap. CXX.Laburnum.Beane Trefoile.There be three sorts of these codded trees or plants, one neere resembling another, whereofAnagyrisof Dioscorides is one. The other two are calledLaburnum; the larger whereof Matthiolus callethAnagyris altera, and so doe some others also: the third is of the same kinde with the second, but smaller. I shall not for this our Garden trouble you or my selfe with any more of them then one, which is the lesser of the twoLaburnum, in that it is more frequent, and that it will far better abide then theAnagyris, which is so tender, that it will hardly endure the winters of our Countrey: and the greaterLaburnumis not so easily to be had.Laburnum.Beane Trefoile.This codded tree riseth vp with vs like vnto a tall tree, with a reasonable great body, if it abide any long time in a place, couered with a smooth greene barke; the branches are very long, greene, pliant, and bending any way, whereon are set here and there diuers leaues, three alwaies standing together vpon a long stalk, being somewhat long, and not very narrow, pointed at the ends, greene on the vpperside, and of a siluer shining colour vnderneath, without any smell at all: at the ioynts of these branches, where the leaues stand, come forth many flowers, much like vnto broome flowers, but not solarge or open, growing about a very long branch or stalke, sometimes a good span or more in length, and of a faire yellow colour, but not very deepe; after which come flat thin cods, not very long or broade, but as tough and hard as the cods of Broome; wherein are contained blackish seede, like, but much lesse then the seede ofAnagyris vera(which are as big as a kidney beane, purplish and spotted): the roote thrusteth down deepe into the ground, spreading also farre, and is of a yellowish colour.The Place.This tree groweth naturally in many of the woods of Italie, and vpon the Alpes also, and is therefore still accounted to be thatLaburnumthat Plinie callethArbor Alpina. It groweth in many gardens with vs.The Time.It flowreth in May, the fruit or cods, and the seedes therein are ripe in the end of August, or in September.The Names.This tree (as I said before) is called of MatthiolusAnagyris altera,siue secunda, of Cordus, Gesner and others, especially of most now adayes,Laburnum. It is probable in my opinion, that this should bee thatColutæaofTheophrastus, mentioned in the fourteenth Chapter of his third bookwith the leafe of a Willow; for if you take any one leafe by it selfe, it may well resemble a Willow leafe both for forme and colour, and beareth small seed in cods like vnto pulse as that doth. Of some it hath beene taken for a kinde ofCytisus, but not truely. We call it in English, Beane Trefoile, in regard of his cods and seede therein, somewhat like vnto Kidney Beanes, and of the leaues, three alwayes standing together, vntill a more proper name may bee giuen it.The Vertues.There is no vse hereof in Physicke with vs, nor in the naturall place of the growing, saue only to prouoke a vomit, which it will doe very strongly.
There be three sorts of these codded trees or plants, one neere resembling another, whereofAnagyrisof Dioscorides is one. The other two are calledLaburnum; the larger whereof Matthiolus callethAnagyris altera, and so doe some others also: the third is of the same kinde with the second, but smaller. I shall not for this our Garden trouble you or my selfe with any more of them then one, which is the lesser of the twoLaburnum, in that it is more frequent, and that it will far better abide then theAnagyris, which is so tender, that it will hardly endure the winters of our Countrey: and the greaterLaburnumis not so easily to be had.
This codded tree riseth vp with vs like vnto a tall tree, with a reasonable great body, if it abide any long time in a place, couered with a smooth greene barke; the branches are very long, greene, pliant, and bending any way, whereon are set here and there diuers leaues, three alwaies standing together vpon a long stalk, being somewhat long, and not very narrow, pointed at the ends, greene on the vpperside, and of a siluer shining colour vnderneath, without any smell at all: at the ioynts of these branches, where the leaues stand, come forth many flowers, much like vnto broome flowers, but not solarge or open, growing about a very long branch or stalke, sometimes a good span or more in length, and of a faire yellow colour, but not very deepe; after which come flat thin cods, not very long or broade, but as tough and hard as the cods of Broome; wherein are contained blackish seede, like, but much lesse then the seede ofAnagyris vera(which are as big as a kidney beane, purplish and spotted): the roote thrusteth down deepe into the ground, spreading also farre, and is of a yellowish colour.
The Place.This tree groweth naturally in many of the woods of Italie, and vpon the Alpes also, and is therefore still accounted to be thatLaburnumthat Plinie callethArbor Alpina. It groweth in many gardens with vs.
This tree groweth naturally in many of the woods of Italie, and vpon the Alpes also, and is therefore still accounted to be thatLaburnumthat Plinie callethArbor Alpina. It groweth in many gardens with vs.
The Time.It flowreth in May, the fruit or cods, and the seedes therein are ripe in the end of August, or in September.
It flowreth in May, the fruit or cods, and the seedes therein are ripe in the end of August, or in September.
The Names.This tree (as I said before) is called of MatthiolusAnagyris altera,siue secunda, of Cordus, Gesner and others, especially of most now adayes,Laburnum. It is probable in my opinion, that this should bee thatColutæaofTheophrastus, mentioned in the fourteenth Chapter of his third bookwith the leafe of a Willow; for if you take any one leafe by it selfe, it may well resemble a Willow leafe both for forme and colour, and beareth small seed in cods like vnto pulse as that doth. Of some it hath beene taken for a kinde ofCytisus, but not truely. We call it in English, Beane Trefoile, in regard of his cods and seede therein, somewhat like vnto Kidney Beanes, and of the leaues, three alwayes standing together, vntill a more proper name may bee giuen it.
This tree (as I said before) is called of MatthiolusAnagyris altera,siue secunda, of Cordus, Gesner and others, especially of most now adayes,Laburnum. It is probable in my opinion, that this should bee thatColutæaofTheophrastus, mentioned in the fourteenth Chapter of his third bookwith the leafe of a Willow; for if you take any one leafe by it selfe, it may well resemble a Willow leafe both for forme and colour, and beareth small seed in cods like vnto pulse as that doth. Of some it hath beene taken for a kinde ofCytisus, but not truely. We call it in English, Beane Trefoile, in regard of his cods and seede therein, somewhat like vnto Kidney Beanes, and of the leaues, three alwayes standing together, vntill a more proper name may bee giuen it.
The Vertues.There is no vse hereof in Physicke with vs, nor in the naturall place of the growing, saue only to prouoke a vomit, which it will doe very strongly.
There is no vse hereof in Physicke with vs, nor in the naturall place of the growing, saue only to prouoke a vomit, which it will doe very strongly.