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Genifta Spartium{pinofum, The pliant thorny Broome their groundsdut in fome places whole Groves are found ftored therewith : and is a {mali hedge buhhrifing up with manyupright {temmes, branched forth into many parts, fet full of {mall fharpe white thornes onall fides footeltaike, whofe ends are round and dented in in the middle : the flowers land at the toppes divers fet toge= ther whichare fafhioned like unto Broome flowers at fome times, and places, wholly yeliow, and at others more reddithor inclining to purple, of fof{weetea fent that with the winde ir is fele agood way of* whenthe flowers are fallen there come up intheir places {mall pods,contcining within them foure. or five {mail round feede like Verches, leffer then thofe of Acacia altera : the roote is wooddy and brancheth forth in the ground fentling forthfiickers wherebyitis plentifully encreafed : the ‘ubftanee of the woed is very hard heavy and white, the heart or cote whereofis blackifhand utterly without any fene while it is greene, but dry fenteth better, 5+ Afpalathus primus Dio[coridis odoratus, The firkt and (weete Afpalathus of Dio/corides, Althoughthis plant be not throughlydecribed andfet forth as the formeris with the leaves, flowers and feede eing buc declared with the trunke or body and with an arme and a few branches cut (hort wich thornes thereon ppsating, yet I thought it not inconvenient to fet it forth as it is extant with fo much defcriptionasis added un« to it,that others may anderftand thereof and have thereby fome knowledgeofit,to further them when they fhall meete with it, The barke of the tree is of a blackifh afhcolour,of an aftringent and fomewhat bitrer ing withall, which being taken off, the inner barkeis of a faire purple colour, (pecially the innerwhichis verythinne, fine and full of {mall ftringsor threads, the {ubftance of the woedis fimeand heavy bat finketh not in water as Ebonydoth, of a pale colour and blackithfor the imoft part in the middle, of a ftrong fent, fomewhat quicke or fierce : Thcre have beene formerly divers woods fhewed and takento bee true Afpalan thus as by fome the Lign#m Rhodium and by fome the -wilce Olive,&c, bueall have erred in theit judgement, every one of them wanting the notes of the true infome partor other, and this onely comming neareft thereunto in everythiug. The Place. ef rft groweth about Salamanca in Spaine,as alfo about Afompelier and in Narbone of France :the fecond in Spaine : thethird at the foote of the Pyrenean hills towards Spaine : the fourthin Candy in divers places in Greece : the laft isnot declared from whence it came. The Time, _ Theyall lower fomewhatearly in their naturall and warme countries, and give their fruit or feedein Summer ; butin thefe coulder climates they will hardly enduire the firft colds of our Autumne as ‘my felfe have proe ved who have had them {prunge from the feede that Tfow ed and have abiden onely the Summer Seaton, The Names, ‘The Greekescallit damaates Afpalathus, and fo doe the Latinesalfo, yet Pliny from Diofcorides faithit was alio called Eryf/ceptram and of {ome Sceptrum, The firlt three forts Clufivs doth acknowledge are none of them the crue «4 (pt «thus alter Diofcoridis, yer becaulefaith hee others did call the firft {o (and the others are likeft untoi:)hecaliechit and them Ajpalathws alter primus fectindus &tertins. Banhinus entituleth them all Genifas i ofum as Lobe! doth, fer torth inhis Jcones ; but in his Obtervations he calleth ice</fpalarhus fecunda fium, and Lugdunenfis A(palathus primus Mon{pe[ulanws but fhould be fecundws being the Printers egurlara tooke it to be Acacia altera, and Tabermontanus callethit Scorpins minimus: the fourth is the Acatia altera ofMatthiolus, Lacuna, Lonicerus, Lobel, Ligdunenfis, Ge{ner and Camerarims + but Honorius Bellus in his fift Epiltle unto Clufius fheweth (as Pone alio from him doth,and as I fayd in the defcription) that in Candy and throughout all Greciait is called Spalathos tothis day, and therefore is confident to call it Afpalathusfecnne dis Pofcoridis, as Guilandinus in his Epiftles did before him, who was Bellzs his Tutour :but Bashinus becanfe he would go with the greateralthough notthe better numberas it fhould feeme (for he quoreth the fameauthors pacts 7_ former Chapmaketh many forts, fome whereof I have is kinde of Plant Bauhinus d here, rather then this, the reft fall be declare ae (t for that place in my opinion Theleffer pliant thorny Ria 06 1. Geniftafpartium[pinofum minus, wis pee high fet with molt fharpe thornes, placed ining fromt This {mall thorny buth rifeth about a footecolour , many branchesof thefe thornes fpring pea en ft another, of a pale greene ome as are 0 alwayes together or foure fach yellow Broome-like flowers oe he toppe, t the ends whereof ftand three maine ftemme up to.t pods foenclofedina hoary woolly downe acy {hort fimall " come which rales es, uth than Vetcheséthe roote is long and {prea~ tobe feene in the Furieb h copwebs, wherein lie {mall feede leffer feeme as it were covered wit ‘ liant thorny Broome of Syria, : i i i i dcoy Leatiches and {mall long ce ehitbigh, beiith divers ‘ee: cen nene 4 having eellong - ane This thorny bath f. a Eaile then the other, and more fparfedlyplaced alfo, thornes yet more ie aFwes with them like unto thofe of Knotgrafle : the flowers ae; ee- a our, feede veffells, conmall long podslike unto the Scorpion podded aa a pp eed usher after which come{ cis long and browne. s rootei the ; them within feede oon oe Creticum. The pliant thorny Broome of Canay. Sera th barke, s {preading Qfunwi blackicith wooddy ftalke or {tename covered dwitha ied ae An i 3 ; rnfhes, all ending in Ss = like {maller into divided cari et— e —bad Oe‘b mek tets there at the joynts of the pencietns pac paorpst —— oary leav h pias r blackif dryflende { in them. feede and {mall podsthorny fides divers others, longpliant {mall s v fucceed ( pe 2 e ofCandy Broom ed by one andyellow {mall are her the flowers c d Creticum, aliu ofum (pin m rtu ‘ ibed, but take : Spa 4 undefcr pafle not Id i fhou it C that er c i and plant, wi Fwith the foregoing brancheth forth very much, the flender feb gree re; g e joyned the fi em Thav e!high,butheth and : flowers and frm: briefly SEEab (mall white fpots,having three {mall leaves at ase with yellow atthe _ See thorne Jong in@ ending ewigge and branch oe ne des cach ss oné br ftalkes andd branche 1 eiee {pre high etn read foote ei2a é* h to be fearfe ebi pe r se intie c fhed witha number of cruell fharpe p mpafe repleni forme or comp eeb round paip a in dainie fer then all rare , leffe no This ae Sees Spserah—_ 2 flowers foure ced ee— of the branches {tand three or i inrerla while 1 {etin rough andhairy hoary huskes, ane> but of a blewith purple colour Ww. oe fpecierwm, duarum Creticum (pinofim Spartum 3.4.“The ; of candy, 5 Broomes two thorny pliane 1, Geniffa Spartium [pinofem minus. nee The leffer pliant thorny Broome, him(elfe that I doe here, both that call it Zcacia and Afpalathus) calleth it Acacia trifoliaxthelaft onely Pona bath fet forth in his Latine and Italian defcription of Mount Baldus, who faith that the wood is pale, and yet Baxhinus in fetting it downe in his Pinaxas hav ing received a peece thereof from 7 ona himfelfe faith thus ot it, 4/pa= lashus cortice cintreo ligno purpareo making the woodto be purple whenas nothing but the inner rinde is fo. C/Sus faith that the Spaniards call the firlt Eulalia,che fecond Axlaga,and the third Hallada. : : The Vertues, Avicen faith that Afpalathusis hot in thefirlt degree and dry inthe end ofthe fecond, almoft tothe third. DisSeorides faith it hath an heating qualitie with fomeaftri@tion, but Galen lib, 6fimpl. medicamentfaith thus. A/pa- Lathys is in tafte fharpe, together with fome aftriGtion alfo, the faculties therein being of unlike parts, to wit tharpe wherebyitis heating;ard herfh or fowre, whereby itis cooling by both which it is drying, and thercby good againft putrefaétions and Fluxes ofall forts: a deco¢tion thereof made im wine and gargled in the mouth is — cod to heale the fowle VIcers thereof, asalfothofe inthe nofe to bee {nuftcd up orinjeéted, asalfo pore has of the genirory es or fecret parts, ifthey bee bathed therewith: the faid deccétion ftayeth the flux co clly andhelperh the {pitting of blood, it helpethalfo thofe that cannot make water,anddiffolveth windy E veuings. Pliny {ith the fame, and further faith that it belpeth the ’ chappes inthe hands or other parts, and e cee har the a the ftrangury, asalfo availeableto bindethe telly, and the decoction thereof fayedh 1008 Cuar. XXL a Gatden ftored withthe rareft plants that can bee gotten from all parts) is as the iaid Bellus faith generally knowne throughall Grecia seteining yet the old name, wherewith they not onely make hedges and fences to without order, and at every thotne on the young and render branchesonetrefoile pale greene leafe upon a long Cwir at The Lheater of Plants. TRise 9: Y Cu AP.20> a pees 500 We Trise 9, COS Tpriere Be YS SF or v Theatrum Botanicum. i AN ssi in za Ww |