jixo Of the Hiftory of Plants. Lib. 3. 
"where the meat (talks arc dearely bought for the better fort of people, and the fmall thorny fpraies 
forthe poorer fort. From thefe thorny branches grow little floures like thofe of Broome, and ofa 
Yellow colour, which in hot Regions vnder the extreme heate of the S urine are of a very perfed red 
colour in the colder countries of the Eaft, as Danzicke,Brunfvvicke, and Poland, there is not any 
branch hereofgrowing, except fome few plants and feeds which my felfehauefenttoElbing.o- 
thenvife called Meluin, where they arc mod curioufly kept in their faireft gardens, as alfo our 
common Broome, the which I haue fent thither likewife, being fird defired by diners earned let- 
ters ■ the cods follow the floures, which the Grauer hath omitted, as a German who had neuer feen 
the plant it felfe, but framed the figure by heare-fay : the root is firong, tough, and wooddy . 
Wc haue in our barren grounds of the North parts of England another fort of Furze, bringing 
forth the like prickley thornes that the others haue : the onely difference confideth in the colour 
of the floures ; for the others bring forth yellow floures, and thpfe of this plant are 'as white as fnow. 
I , Tothismay be ioyned another kinde of Furze which bringeth forth certaine branches 
that be fome cubit high. Aide, and fet round about at the fird with fmall winged Lentill-like 
leaues and little harmeleffe prickles, which after they haue been a yeare old, and the leaues gon,be 
armed onely with mod hard lharpe prickles, crooking orbending their points downwards. The 
floures hereof are of a pale yellow colour, leffer than thofe of Broome, yet thafame forme : the 
cods are fmall, in which do lie little round reddifh feeds : the root is tough and wooddy. 
| q Genifla Sp'wofit minor filicjua routnda. 
Small round codded Furze, 
4 GcnifldU aculeata. 
Needle Furze or 
t Of this Ctufau reckons vp three varieties : the fird growing fome cubit high, with deepe yel- 
low floures: the fecondgrowes higher, and hath paler coloured floures: the third gtoweth to the 
height of the fird, the floures alfo are yellow, the branches more prickly, and the leaues hairy ; and 
the figure I giue you is of this third varietie. 
- " This feldome exceeds a foot in height, and it is on eueriefide armed with fharpe prickles, 
which grow notconfufedly,as in the common fort, but keepe a certaine order, and dill grow forth 
by couples : they are ofa lighter greene than thofe of the common Furze :on the tops of each of 
the branches grow two or three yellow floures like thofeof the former ; which are fucceeded by lit- 
tle round rougih hairy cods ofthebigneffc of Tares. This floures in March , and groweth in the 
way between Burdeaux and Bayone in France, and vpon the Pyrenean mountaines,C/«j?»f makes it 
his Scorpitts 1 . or fecond lort of Furze : Lobel calls it Genista Jpartinm [j>incfnn> altcrum, t 
4 This 
