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Show Tbe Garden of pleafant Flowers. ansienees $$$ . The $$$, ———S The Vertues. Theophrattus faith it doth wonderfully helpe to fatten theepe : But fire itis found by experience,thatif it be giuen to manit caufethftrong caftings both vpwardsand downwards ; andtherefore let cuery one beware that they vfe notthis in fteede of good Sena, left they feele to their coftthe force thereof. aati Crar. CXII. Sparthin Hifpanicumfratex. Spanith Broome. Lrhough Clufius and others haue founddiuersforts of this fhrubby Spartum or Spanith Broome, yet becaufe our Climate will nourfe vp noneofthem,and euenthis very hardly, ‘Ifhallleaueall others, and defcribe vnto you thisone only inthis manner ; Spanifh Broome growethto beefiue or fixe foote high, witha woodyfemme below, couercd with a darke gray,orath-coloured barke, and hauing aboue manypliant, long and flender greenetwigs, wherconin the beginning ofthe yeare are fet many {mill long greeneleaues,whichfall away quickly,not abidinglong on ; towards thetops of thefe branches grow the flowers,fafhioned like vato Broom flowers, but larger, as yellow as they,and {melling very well ; after which come{mall long cods, cteftedat thebacke, wherein is contained blackith flat feede, fathioned very likevato the Kidney beanes) the roote is woody,difperfing it felfe diners waies. The Place, This groweth naturally in many places of France, Spaineand Italie,wee haueitas an ornamentin our Gardens, amongotherdelightfull plants, to pleafe the fenfes offight and fmelling. The Time. It fowreth inthe end of May, or beginning of Iune, and beareth{eede, Which ripeneth not withvs vatill it belate. The Names. Itiscalled Spartinm Grecornm, and Spartumfrutex, to diftinguifhit from thefedgeorruth, thatis fo called alfo. Of fomeit is called Geniifs, and thought norto differ from the other Genifla, but they are much deceiueds for cuen in Spaine andItalie,the ordinary Gaxiiteor Broome groweth with it, weed is not pliant, and fit to binde Vines, orfachlike things withall as thisis. The Vertues. _ Thereislittle vfe hereof. in Phyficke, by reafon of the dangerous qual tic of vomiting, which it doth procureto them thattake itinwardly : but pene applyed outwardly,it isfoundto helpethe Sciatice,-or paine of the ippes. rdSene-. 2 i st Sene. Soa Hilpanicnin. Spanih Broome,’ - 4 areeris Spartum Hilparicnin« Sp Ones Seat ae Guilded Marierome. - = Scorf ‘ ta Vireiniana Virginian Silke. i necorpioides Oebaftard et : Scorpioides Calutet Male Sand, ¢ Scorpion i i Virg' ini See eek PeriplocaretiaVirg 8 Party cow 5 Ligurum, Prive, 6 Salusa variegata. |