¶ The Description.
1 THe great Marsh Trefoile hath thicke fat stalkes, weake and tender, full of a spungious pith, very smooth, and of a cubit long: whereon do grow leaues like to those of the gar∣den Beane, set vpon the stalkes three joined to∣gether like the other Trefoiles, smooth, shining, and of a deepe greene colour: among which to∣ward the top of the stalkes standeth a bush of feather like floures of a white colour, dasht ouer slightly with a wash of light carnation: after which the seed followeth, contained in small buttons, or knobby huskes, of a browne yellow∣ish colour like vnto Millet, and of a bitter taste: the roots creepe diuers waies in the middle ma∣rish ground, being full of joints, white within, and full of pores, and spungie, bringing forth di∣uers by-shoots, stalkes, and leaues, by which meanes it is easily increased, and largely multi∣plied.
2 The second differeth not from the prece∣dent, sauing it is altogether lesser, wherein con∣sisteth the difference, if there be any: for doubt∣lesse I thinke it is the selfe same in each respect, and is made greater and lesser, according to his place of growing, clymate, and countrey.