% Of this Orobitnche or Broome Rape there 
fire fome varieties obferued and fet forth by La- 
bel and Clufiiu.-ihc firft of thefe varieties, hath 
longer and fmaller fkmresthan the ordinarie.- 
The fecond hath larger floures, and thofe of a 
blewifh colour, and is fometimes found among 
corne. The third is parted towards the top in- 
to fundry branches ; the floures of this are ei- 
ther blew,purplifh,or elfe white, and it willing- 
ly growes among hempe. ^ 
3 The Spanifh Broome hath likevvife 
wooddy ftems,from whence grow vp Render 
pliant twigs, which be bare and naked without 
leaues, or at the leaft hauing but few fmall 
Ieaues, fet here and there far diftant one from 
another, with yellow floures not much vnlike 
the floures of common Broome, but greater, 
which turne into fmall long cods, wherein is 
conteined brovvne and flat feed : the rootc is 
tough and wooddy. 
4 Small leafed or thin leafed Broome hath 
many tough pliant fhoots rifing out of the 
ground, which grow into hard and tough ftalks, 
which arediuided into diuers twiggy branches 
whereon doe grow very fmall thin leaues, of a 
whitifh colourpvhereupon fome haue called it 
Gsniftaalht, white Broome : the floures grow at 
the top of the ftalkes,in fhapelike thofe ofthe 
common Broom,butof a white colour, wherein 
itfpeciallydifferethfrom the other Broomes. 
Sffff 5 Englifli 
Of the Hiflorie of Plants. 
j Genifta Hijpanica, 
Spanifh Broome. 
5 Cham.egcnift.i Anglic, i. 
Englifh Dwarfe Broome. 
