The Bor, sacred to c diese — the wee used in her sa- 
crifices wert - 1ade of it. ‘ooke °s Pa ntheo 
The Arborescent Box, or ce ae Arboresen en ns. 
Linn. ) wh shrubby beadins- from twelve t 0 si ixteen feet high 7 a 
and in 
Lemon, in his English Etymology, says: ‘It is very o' . 
ae. that fourteen princes of the family of Plantagenet ha 
sate on the throne of England for upwards of three sara 
years, gr yet ve ny few of our a have known either 
unds at one hi 
curious devices, the letters of his own name, and of other 
= were orderly e expressed i in rows of shor n box. é 
e Dw arf I Box. t 
t £ ok +th +, met, age 2. hint mnc ch-" aa yranch- 
ed parts of f France, by t! he road 
sides pe t v lags, and in stony ner vrai a is said to 
e tr wae indig 
- sed 
in gee to divile beds ig the walks of 
flow: relia oat and h 
The box is too well known to require a gon descrip- 
ion. 
“Though youth be past and beauty fle 
The constant I edge redee 
Like Bow t that guards the flowerloss be a, 
‘hte: + 
BROOM. 
GENISTA. 
Class 17.—DIADELPHIA. * Order.—DECANDRIA. 
Vat. Ord. Linn. Nat. Ord. Juss. 
APILIONACEE. LEGUMINOS®. 
Genista, either from Genu, a knee—in allusion to the bend- 
ing of the twigs; or from Geno, to produce: beca use it grows 
wild in abundance ce. Nota very clear etymology. 
Rees’s Cyclopedia. 
E.—Sax. brum, so called from its being made into 
ith 
i 
i -weed, Dwarf Broom, Scotch Broom, &c. A 
genus of shrubs almost entirely European, with tough angular 
stems — sear wc either ternate or simple leaves, and yel- 
low flow exlyr a perianth inferior, of one leaf, small, ati 
lar, easel aed fy iatt Las see ee eth, lower w with Sire, 
Corolla papilion 
the rest of the pea 
Althe with the — eye; the broom 
Yellow oa rt as bullion unalloyed, 
Her blosso Cowper’s Turk. 
cn blooms Genista in the myrtle jhade, , 
ten fond brothers woo the peal e maid. Darwin. 
_in allusion oo ie bey stamens being united at the bottom 
nd with the nae pistil inhabiting the 
same flow 
In aie the ee is regarded as the emblem of Humili- 
The Encyclopedia pe es, that the term Plantagenet has 
infinite perplexity to the etymologists and gers. aoa It is 
allowed to have belonged to the house of Anjou ; and was 
brought to the throne of Engla: land by Henry the where 
it was preserved by his posterity, th till the, time of Henry the 
Eighth, a sp un 
Skinner tells us ot ye Sep house fare ‘derived the name 
m e thereo of, oe having killed his bro- 
ted, 
beeen with a rod made ot 
, broo: And we are told, elsewhere, that he 
nickenamed ne ‘rom the use he had made of the 
Broom, 
f Europe ‘cot 8 
rope, i r the etymology of it: but his- 
the temperate parts of Asia and America. I much ad- | tory tells us, that Ger x earl pe! Pypg seguir hy surname 
mired by te ncients, on account of its being Sehr clipped ~ Plantagenet from the incident of a@ sprig 
into the sh f als, _ other fantastic appearance: oom in his Samer on a day of bat. This Geet y was se- 
h eanger Pliny gives a florid description of the pleasure rate husband to Matilda, or Maud, e German: any, & and 
f his ntry sea , among other | daughter of Henry L., of land : et 
f{ the Broom there are three varieties—the i al visi, 
and white flowering. 
5 - iJ 
VAT} ee lt 
Far dearer t to me yon lone glen ” green bracken, 
Wi Pt 
$ Burns. 
The wilding broom as sweet, which gracefully 
Flings its long tresses, waving in yellow beauty. 
on. 
The humble broom and osiers have their use, 
And shade for sheep, and food for flocks produce. 
The broom and the furze are gn 9 va pe They 
both bear papilionaceous flowers. The metimes 
ed, by botanists, Genista Spinosa, an . @ Ue Duro; > 
provincially Whi e. s grows abundantly in Eng- 
rh 
bloom of the furze, which he then saw for the first time, ona 
common near pou that he fell on sage, enraptured at 
the sight.. He conveyed some of the to Sweden; and 
he complains in in Hort. Upsal, ea 2, that ie gene never preserve 
it in his garden, through the 
Of the furze, m3 common yet ind the white, are ranked 
under the head of evergreens, 
ere the furz 
Enriched snag pa spines, with golden flowers, 
Charlotte Smith. 
The gorse is yellow on the hea th, 
The banks with speedwell flowers are gay. Same. 
The purple heath, and uae brqom, 
Which scent the pass. Montgomery. 
BRUTTRR- OUF: 
RANUNCULUS. ACRIS. 
Class 13.—POLYANDRIA. Order.—POLYGYNIA. 
Nat..Ord. Linn. Nat. Ord. Juss. 
pcmcia. RANUNCULACBE. 
— derived from Rint, and means a a little rog. Pas 
hich ition is confirmed i by the 
oes 
English name © Grofit 
s. 3 t, 2. +h. A in 
ne instunen: alike, or one similar to 
e pare nt plant. ne ne apie eal Poi ‘flower is yell ow; 
it embraces all colors, from black down to white: blue is 
injurio mus to men and cattle; jel sheep: and it was 
wath _ kind of Ranunculus ancients poisoned their 
ors anes essential mark of this genus, consists, according to 
ee ee the rest of these parts being uncertain, 
