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14 . Spar turn bifyankum fiore albo» 
White howred Spanilh Broome. 
not abiding long thereon: towards the toppes of thefe 
branches grow many flowers, fafhioned like unto Broome 
flowers, but larger and more fpread open, of a more (Li¬ 
ning gold yellow colour, and Imelling very fweete, after 
which come fmall long cods, crefted at the backe, wherein is 
contained blackifh flat feede fafhioned like unto the kidney 
beanes: the roote is vvooddy,dilper(ing it felfc diver ie wayes 
underground. 
V 3 . Spartnm Hijpanicttm minus monofpermon (lore luteoi 
The fmall S pa nifti Broome with yellow flowers. 
This (mailer Spanilh Broome, groweth with a flemmeor 
flalke of the bignefle of ones thumbe at the bottome, to bee 
about two foote high, whofe barke is rough and ftrakedall 
along, fending forth many greene (lender pliant branches, 
which divide themfelves againe into many other fmall 
twiggs, whereon for a while after they are (hot forth, abide 
a few fmall leaves, untill they begin to fhoote out flowers, 
and then fall away, leaving the branches naked and without 
leaves, all the reft of the yeare after: from the fides and 
joynts of the fmaller twigges,lhoote forth fmall long ftalks, 
bearing many fmaller yellow flowers, than the former Spa" 
nifh Broome, without any fent for the moft part t After 
which come fmall round skinnic cods, conreining for the 
moft part, but one feede in every one of them, being blac¬ 
kifh and fafhioned fomewhat like unto the Kidney Beane, 
whichwhen they are ripe, will by the lhaking of the windc, 
make a noyfc in their pods .* the roote is hard and wood- 
, Spartnm Hilpamcum m tjus florealbo, The 
greater White flowrei Spanifh Broome. 
The other Spanilh Broome (in his natural! place) groweth 
much higher than the former, even to any mans height, 
whofe branches are more lithyand pliant than the other, 
having fmall leaves on them like the other, and as foone fa¬ 
ding: the flowers alfo ftand upon long llalkes, and arc like 
them for the forme, but larger and of a white colour, ofas 
imall fent as they, which afterwards turne into fmall round 
pods, like the former, butlmaller, each one conteining but one feede for the mod part, and fmaller alfo. 
15. chamafjtartttm montanum triphyllum. Dwarfc Broome of Naples. 
This fmall Broome hath wooddy llalkes from whence fhoote forth rulhlike branches fit at dillances with 
three fmall whicifh hairy leaves as fmall as thofe of Sothernwood, at the toppes whereof Hand yellow flowers 
and hoary hairy huskes fucceeding. 
The P face. 
The firil groweth plentifully in many places ofour owne Country, as well as in Spume, Italy, Frame, and Ger- 
manyiThe iecond is found in fome places about Mompehcrm France,and Fnburgin Germany. The third groweth 
in the Hand of the Turrhene Sea called llva: the fourth in fome places of Spaine only-.thefik is found in many pla¬ 
ces of our own Land:thelixt groweth in Candy, as Alpinm faith, and Bauhinus faith he had it out of the garden of 
the Noble Conttircmu at fWomtheleaventh groweth in many untilled or unmamired grounds ofour land,as alfo 
by the hedges, and way fides, and in fome meddowes alfo plentifully, where they keepe it for the profitis made 
thereof,even as ofBroome: the eight Clnfiui faith he found in no other place, than onely in the kingdomeof 
Murcia in Spaine, and there alfo he law the Broome rape, growing from the roote thereof. The ninth groweth 
inmany dry unmanured fiieepe pailurcs, in Natbont ofFrame, as Pena and Label fay : the tenth Clttjius faith, 
he onely found in fome rough dry grounds in the Kingdomeof Valentin: the eleventh was found in Spain', 
neere unto a place called Aquas b lancas, as TauhinM from Dodtor si Minus faith : the twelth in many places of 
France , Spaine , and Italy ■ the thirteenth is common as faith, in the dry fandy grounds, of both the con- 
tries of Caji He : the fonreteenth he faith he onely found in the Ifland of gadesox Cales: thelafl Columna faith 
he found on the hils in Naples. 
The Time. 
All thefe flower fome earlyer or later in the fommer moneths, and give their feede ripe before winter, but the 
Spatujb kindes are for the moil part the fared that perfeft their feede. 
The Names, 
Genifi a or as fome write it Cenelia,agenuumflexilitate g 5 - ad nexus utili, hand dubie nominatur, ml pot ins quia ge. 
mbus medeatur dolentibus •, and therefore diverfe in former times did take Spartium Diofcordis, to be the Gemfla 
latinornm,md even Plinye alio in lus time wasdoubtfull whether ic were not fo,for Spartium as Diofierides faith 
nine ah ufum inalligandjsvitibusprebeant, and therefore the controverfie among diverfe writers, endured untill 
Ruelliu, his time, who refuted the opinions of Hermolarss and Marcellas, that tooke them to bee both one, but 
Pena and Label fincc them'in their Adverfaria, call {the Genista Scoparia (which is our common Broome) 
Sparnum, as if there were no difference, when as yet they appoint the Spartium , or Spartnm Hi/panicum & Nar- 
ionenle, to be the true Spartium of ‘Diofcorides ,which many call alfo genijla Hijpanica, Italica and African* Many 
likewifemiflooke the Spartnm Iuncus, which is akindeof Rufli, wherewith in Spaine they make frailesor 
baskets, to put Rayfins, Figges, and other things in, to be the Spanumfrutex, deceived by the name onely, with¬ 
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