T RfBE 9 7 he Theater of Tlants. Ch a. < 22 ioo^ 
The Time. ~~~ 
All theft: doe flower in the beginning of Sommer, yet Ctaftasi aith hee found the third in flower in April! 
where it grew naturally. 
7 be Names. 
'Bauhinus as I laid intituleth all tliefe plants fietafta fpartium ftinofam, calling the firfl minus , becaufe he made 
the three fir ft in the lall; Chapter robe maftts.Clafives calleth it Samp,us fecundus ,and tlnnketh it may be the £ehi- 
aepoda Crerica of Honorius Bellas for that as he faith it grew .very like it,and Lugdunenfis termeth it Afpalatbasft- 
tttadusi Lebel calleth it Genifta fpartmfpimfttm altera. Cafatpmu Spina Chrifti and umtmaus Genifts fpinofa altera 
icon, and Tabermonumts Scorpias tenites : the fecond Lugdunenfis in his Appendix fheweth out of Banwotftus 
journa I,that the Moores of Aleppo did call it Alhagi, on whofc leaves a kinde of Manna called by the Arabians Te- 
renjabin, and liythc Moor esTrunfchibin was ufed to be gathered,eipecialy in Perfia, and calleth it Pl.mtafpino/a 
Maurorum Alhagi .mdEauhinus Geniftafpartium folijspolygon,: rhetb.rd alpinus l.deplantir exotica calleth Spar- 
tiumftinofuin , and the fourth Spurt.it CretituicbcdkClufius calleth Erinacta from the S pamjb word tor tire 
likencfle in the growing round with prickles and thorncs unto an Hedgehog, Cafaipinus calleth it Genifta'rotund* 
alternnrgenus. Eobcl Spartamaphyllon fraticofum jancets aculeii lanatit folijs. Tabermontanus Scorpias ejuiartus and 
Spartium aculeatum apbyllon rGerardmakt th it his fourth Genifta fpinoja hurnili,, aod faith it groweth in the 
South and Weft parts of this Land, but (urel am he is much milbken therein, tor in his defeription lice faith it 
hath yellow flowers which this hath not.: Bauhinus calleth it Geniftafpartium fpinofumfolijs Lent,cuU,fio. 
rib us ex caruledfturpurafcentibus : the fixt is mentioned by Belltmius in his firft booke of Obfervations and tS. 
Chapter calling it Achinopoda, and as he there faith is very like unto Afpalatbas, but Honorius Bellas in his fe¬ 
cond Epiftle to Clufius contraryeth him therein, (hewing that Scbinopoda differeth much from Alpalathusboth in 
the grcarnelTe of the plant or bufb, being much gi eater then Echintpoda, asalfo having fewerthornes, and three 
leaves tec together, long abiding contrary to Echinopoda and fheweth it ro be very common in all Gracia, and irt 
the Hand or Sio, and that ‘Dalechampiu, was much deceived herein in his marginall note upon Atbaneus 
in taking Echimpod.no bee Cardui Chiygenus, and that it may appeare to bee commonly growing there, and 
knowne, Plutarbe i n his Sympoftafs and libro de audit,one towards the end, fttteth downe this old Diftichon, 
Inter Scbhopodas velut after am of inter Ononim, 
Interdum crefeunt mollia Lettcoia . 
And fodoth Athemas like wile mention it in his third booke of D ipnofophiftes, as dill growing among Ononis and 
thorncs it lelfe being one, Pliny alio in his eleventh Booke and eighth Chapter mentioned ir under the name of 
Cbcnopos.JMelcbior quilandinusknew itnoi, for in his Hp.file to Langius henumbrethtt among the unknowne 
plants to him. 
The Venues. 
T he fecond Ramnolfhis faith is hot and dry,and that the Syrians with an hand full of the leaves make a decofti- 
on in wateranddrinkeir, whertby they purge themfelves :but I doe not finde any mention of rhe vertnes of 
any of the reft of tliefe plants, eytheruied by the learned or by the inhabitants where they grow, and therefore 
untill 1 can learne more of them Imuft befllentalfo. 
Chat. XXII. 
Scorpias five Geniftafpinofa. Thorny Broome and Furfe. 
; Avingas well before in this Worke as in my former Booke (hewed you all the forts of fmooth 
Broomes or without thones, and in thde two laft Chapters divers thorny bufhes comming neared to 
die thorny Broomes, it remaineth for me to declare them alio, which although fome grow fowild 
on barren heaths anddry groundsin ourovne Land thatthey are not thought fit to bee planted ina 
Carden, yet there be divers others that are, let me not therefore fever them into many places,but let 
them together in this Chapter,the common Furfebulhes being of the lame tribe or family. 
I. Genifta ftinofa major vulgaris five Scorpias Theopbrafti y tiers Gaasa Nepam [ranftalit. 
The ordinary great Furfe bufli or Scorpions Thorne of Theophraftus. 
Our ordinary Furfe or Corf: (as it it called in lome places ) is well knowne to grow much higher in fome pla¬ 
ces I hen ill others, yet (fill keepeth his forme, which is to fend forth many wooddy grayiih ftalkes full of 
branches, and L t with fharpe long thornes on all (ides, fothickethatitfeemeth nothing but thorncs, andisfcl- 
dome Irene to have leaves on ir, for if they be not heeded in the Spring when they come forth on flnall (hikes, 
being (mall and almoft round, yet pointed at the ends, and fome a little narrower and longer, many fit toge¬ 
ther on both (ides of a middle rib,of a gray ifli greene colour above, & filver like or hoary white underlie ith, they 
quickly fall away and are not feene.fo that many have thought it never britigeth forth any : the flower? are ma¬ 
ny (landing at the toppesof the branches, like unto thofe of Broome and almoft as yellow, but not fo-Chining, af¬ 
ter which iucceedc tliickc and fhort pods covered with a whitiftt hoary freefe, and with a twining pontortnd 
wherein are contained fmall brownifh (eede : therooteis long tough and (preading. 
a. Cfeniftafpimfafiorealbo. The white flowred Furfebufti. 
In rhe North parts of this Land Iheare that in divers places,the Futfc orGorfe bufhes as they there call fiftm 
beare very white flowers, differing in nothing elfe from them thacbearc yellow, for they arc oftentimes (cenc 
both growing together in one ground. 
Geniftaftinofa minor. The leffcr Furfe bufn. 
. T.lieleffer Furfe bufli groweth alwayes lower,full of branches, and with (mallerand (Porter t'jornes thereon 
then the former, this hath many fmall greene leaves (landing in the fame manner which abide; much longer on 
the tbornes lief ,!■' hey fall away, which is not untill the end of the Spring or beginning of-Summer, to that 
both leaves ana i j .- ers are oftentimes feene a good while together : the flowers are (inaller then the former anil 
