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4 i nis iman Kinae or rurze (growing vpon Hampitead neath neerc London, and in d-n 

 other barren ground s,where,in manner nothing clfe will grow)hath many weake and flexible bra " 

 ches ofa wooddy fubftance : whereon doe grow little leaues like thofe of Tyme : among which are 

 let in number infinite moftfharpe prickles, hurting like needles, whereof it tookc his name lhe 

 rloures grow on the tops of the branches like thofe of Broome, and of a pale yellow colouu The 



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wooddy 



\ftus) iswholly new and elegant, fomc fp 



branches, fome fpred vpon the ground.others (landing vprighr, hauing plentiful! ftorc or gr< ene 

 prickles : the flourcs in (hapc arc like thofe ofBroome, bnt lefTe,and of a blewirh purple col ir 

 Handing in rough hairy whitilli cups, two or three floures commonly growing neerc tocetbei 

 fometimesvvhilclUtfloures it fendeth forth little leaues, but not very often, and they arc few and 



root is wooddy 



nothing 

 for the 



proportion of the plant. It grovvcsinthekingdomcofValcntiain Spainc, where the Spaniards 



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Eri^o, that is, the Hedgehog- and thence Cluft 





5 Gentjla ft'wofi humilis* 



Dwarfcorlow Furze. 



6 GenifiA acukdta minor Jmc TQpa Thcophr. 



Scorpion Furze. 



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6 The fmalleft of all the Furze is that of the Antients called Nepa } or Scorpion Furze, as the 

 tvord Nep4 feemeth to import : it is a ftranger in England : it hath beenc touched of the Antients 

 in name onely:which fault they hauebeene all andeueryofthemto be complained of, being fo 

 bricfe that nothing can be gathered from their defcription : and therefore I refer what might here- 

 of be faid to a further confederation, t This hath a thicke wooddy blacke root fome halfc foot 

 long, from whence arife many {lender branches fome foot high, which arc fet with many ftiffc and 

 fharpe prick!es,growing fomewhac after the manner of the wilde prickly Speragc : the yong plants 

 haue little leaues like thofe of Tragacanth^the old ones none : the flours are fmall,and come forth 

 atthebottomc of the prickles, and they arefucceeded by broad cods wherein the feed is contai- 

 ned. It growesiu diuers places of France and Spaine, and is thought to be the Scorpm of Tbeo* 



$**> which Gaza tranflates 2{ep 



5f The Place. 



The common fort hereof are very well knowne to grow in paflures and fields in mod places of 

 igland. The reft are likewise well knowne to thofe that curioufly obferue the difference. 



5[ TheTime. 



They floure from the beginning of May to the end of September. 



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Furze is commonly called Genijlajpwfa : in high Dutch, <I5afpeU)0£Cn : in Englifli, Furze, Far- 



^bufheSjWhinne^orlTe^ndThorne-Broome. 



This thorny Broome is taken for Theopbraftus his Scorpius y which Gtza nameth K f p a ; ^ c MmC 9 



irpius in tlinj his n<*to/*f . that is to fay, fignify ing many things, and common to cervine Plants : 





