1^8 Of the Hiftory of Plants. Lib. 3; 
Chap. 19. Of Spanifh bafe TSroomes. 
«[ The Dcfcription. 
X 1 'T' His grovves to the height ofa cubit, and is couered with a crefted and rough barke, 
• and duuded into many longifh branchescrefted & green,which at their firli fpring- 
ing vp haue fome leaues vpon them, which fall away as foon as the plant comes to floure : from the 
Tides of the branches come forth long foot- ftalks whereon hang fomefmall yellow floures, which 
are fucceeded by fhort round yellowifh red cods which commonly containe but one feed.feldome 
two, and thefe hard and blacke,and like alittle Kidney, which when it is ripe will rattle m the cod 
being fhaken. $ 
1 Pfiudoftartum flifl/anicum AphjHum : 
S panifh Broome without leaues. 
2 Pfiudojpartum album Aphjllum'. 
The white leafe-lefle Spanifh broom! 
ff The Place. 
Thefe grow in the prouinces of Spaine,and are in one place higher and more bufhie, and in an 
other lower. 
^1 The Time. 
X The firft floures in May, and the fecond in Februarie. I 
The Names. 
Thefe bale Spanifh broomes may be referred to the true,which is called in Greeke the La- 
tines v fe the fame name,calling it fometimes Spartnmfind Spartium- -in Spanifh, Afniwa; ; n En^lifli 
Spanilh broome,and baltard Spanifh broome. 
The Temperature and Vertues. 
A Both the feeds and mice of the branches ofthcle bale broomes, wherewith theyinSpaine and 
other hot regions do tie their vines, do mightily draw, as Galen writeth. 
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