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Long floured Broome-Rape. 





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Great floured Broome Rape. 



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Branched Broom-Hapc." 



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Room is a bufh or flirubby planr,ir 

 hath ftalks or rather wooddy bran- 

 ches, from which dofpting flender 

 twigSjCorncrcd.green^ough, and thatbeeali- 

 Jy bowed,naany times diuidedintofmalbran- 

 ches j about which do grow iittlelcaues of an 

 obfeure green colour,&: braue yellow rloures, 

 and at the length flat cods, which beeing ripe 

 are black, as are thofe of the common Vetch, 

 in which doe lie flat feeds, hard, fomething 

 brownifh,and lefler than Lentils : the root is 

 hard and wooddy, fending forthdiuers times 

 another plant of the colour of an Oken leafe, 

 in iliapc like vnto the baftard Orchis , called 

 Birds neft, hauing a root like a Turnep« 



Broom-Rape. 

 2 This is a 



Rapc,whcreupon it is called Eafm GevJUt 



ccrtainbulbcdplantgrowing 



voto the roots of Broom 5 big be!ow,and ln»i- 

 leraboue, couercdwith blackifli *cales,ai 

 of a ycllowifh pulp within : from ^Jj*" 

 rife « ftalke a fpan long, hauing »b inft *« 

 about the top like almoft to thofe of * 

 Nettle. After which grow forth ft 

 and round husksjn whicharecoat*^^ 

 many fecds,and good for nothing the 

 plani is of the colour of the Oken leafe. 



