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Show CHAP. 22. Theatrum Botanicum. ofa paler colour : the cods are {mall and fhore without any freefe apoirthem, blackith when they are ripe, and the feede reddifh within ; the roote islong, tough and wooddy. 4. Trisz 9. ee 1. Gerifia pinofa vulgaris. Theordinarygreat Furle buth. §. The Time, They all Hower in the Sommer moneths but the greater forts fomewhat eatlier then the lefler. : i 19, Chapter of the fame ninth Booke, which doth molt propetly decipher out the Doronicum Kenito Scorpions) as"I have fhewed before, fo that the word Scorpius is manicn oa w »nifound ignifications in Theophraftrs but Gaza doth moft unproperly make them both A ? prickly Scorpius. with the other : The firlt is the Scorpins primus of Clufins, Scorpits-a fs'and Tabermontanus, and Genifta {pinofa of Dodoneus; Bauhinus callerh it Ge us acwleg ; the {econdis as | take it peculiar to onttowne Land;)and not mentioned by any bef re ws referreth it tothe next : the third is the-dVepa Theopbraffi of Lobel, Camerari#s and. Ta Geniftella Monfpeliaca (pinofa, ‘Theophrafti of Lugdunenfis,Scorpins five Nepa of Anguilara, and called by Banhinus This Freachthorny Broome hath divers flender pliant twigs bending downewards, ofa fpimne long or more, whofe lower part is divided into'manyveryfhort branches which’ are nothing butthornes, and from the middleapwards {pread alfo into branches that are hairy, but without any thorne or prickle on them, having many finall hoaryleaves fet on them and fome {maller:alfo with thein : at the toppes grow fuchpale yellow flowerslike # untothe laft. A greater fore hereof hath beene brought out of us aculeis: the fourthis the Geniftella of Tragus, Fuchfins, Dodoneus, Ls a el Geniftella pinofa of Gefnerin hortis, Geniftella acileatao€ Lobel i) 1ib,20,¢.4.) Tabermontanus and Lonicerns, called by Cefalpinus Corone 4[pino(a minor Germanica : thefift is called by Bashinusin his Pinax Geni ma, butinhis Prodremus GeniftellaMonfpeliacafpinofa, and faith that fome.c tea: thelalt Banhinus calleth Geniftella minor eAfpalatoides vel Genifta [pinofa / gland by the namie of Gensfta spinofa (whichis probable was found in {ome tous asthe plantit felfeis, and {ent himas a raritice, whofaith the like thereunto was found ‘vance, The Italian. Whinne 6. Geniftells minsr Afpalatoides, Small prickly Broome like Afpalathns, herba, 7 Broome, but tl the Dutch Gafpeldoren, and wee in Enclifh e generally givento all thefeth e fourth fort, whichthe French call Genefte picquant, the 5 Brem and we in Eng aall prickly Broome. This {mall bufh groweth a foot high or more,with a round woods dy ftem covered with areddith bark,let here and there very {pa= ringly with fome few {mall thornes divided into branches, which likewifeare parted into other {maller branches, whereon are fet a few {mall and Jong leaves,and fome more round alfo, the fow- The Vertue. e heldto be hot and dry, good to open obftruGtions of the Liverand Spleene,, for inft the Taundies,as alfo to provoke Vrine and to clenfe the dred in them, The othersno doubt are participant of the fame qualities, ers (tand not all on the toppes, but fome from the befome of the ftalkes and leaves, not much fmaller then the laft, and ofas pale a yellowcolour,the branches not endingin athorneasit doth. Cuar. XXITI The Place, The foure fir forts grow in our owne Land on dry barren 3+ Genifa inofa minor. The leer Furie buth. The Names, The firft is generally taken tobe the sxe: Scorpins T!heopkrasti, whith Gaza tranflateth Nepa inlib, 6, cap.i) where he faith Corruda and Scorpiges.are wholly compofed of thornes, bnenot that Scorpius lib. 9.¢.14.¥ roote he faith dottireprefent a Scorpioriand is good againft the fting thereof; and which hee calleth Ze/ Small thorny Broome of Mompelier. : 1005= heaths and other wate gravelly or fandy grotnds,and fo doththe laft as alfo about Orleance : but the fiftis found about AZompelier and hath beene brdéught out of Spaine likewife, Geniftella aculeata. The {mall prickly Broome, This {mall Broome fendeth from the roote divers upright flender greene ftalkes fet with many finall fharpe and fhort prickles onall fides from the bottome upwards, and branching forth into divers parts, having many {mall hard greene leaves growing on the younger branches, at the toppes whereof ftand many {mall pale yellow flowers, much {inaller thenany of the former, and {mall long pods a little pointed with {mall feede therein following them: the roote growérh not very deepe,buc fpreadeth tough long (rings. Spaine. TRIBE 9 Lhe Theater of Plants. Cuap,23. se aaereeeaeee Rhamnus, Buckes thorne. 4. Geniffela acaleata. ‘The fmall prickly Broome? mprehendeddivers forts of fhtnbbes, fome much di shis time acknowledged two forts, the one whit lis time acknowledged thre which I ers in thefe later tim iM cin there are more for ts fe a f 2 thorne,as a difting ted in the fecond Claffis of this work of the third Rhamnus of c veentreated in myform follow int Sea fide as wellas in t er, cove i y are ripe, Tos mong them: a togetner 1,0f bla na e3, and hath divers berries Whitefio 1 Buckes thorne. rs ftraight u rout, from almoft round uckes thorne. heaths a rowing not fohigh, bufhing with more branches |