[tetrifolie
error in Holland (whence tetrifoil in Daniel) for tre-trifoly, i.e. tree-trefoil.
Tre-trifoly was applied by Turner to the Cytisus of the ancients (Medicago arborea). The black-wooded Cytisus of Pliny was the laburnum (Cytisus Laburnum).
| 1601 Holland Pliny xvi. xl. I. 490 Yet the Cytisus or Tetrifolie is blacker, and seemeth most to resemble the Ebene. 1606 Daniel Queen's Arcadia v. i. 85 And seek out Clouer for thy little Lambes, And Tetrifoil to cheerish vp their Dammes.] |