A nievve herball, or historie of plantes wherin is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes: their diuers [and] sundry kindes: their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes: their names, natures, operations, and vertues: and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, commonly vsed in physicke. First set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, physition to the Emperour: and nowe first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte Esquyer.

❀ The Description.

[ 1] THE Furze or prickley Broome, hath many twigges or smal branches, of a wooddishe substance, the whiche in the beginning being yet but young and tender, are full of litle greene leaues, amongst which grow small thornes, the whiche be soft and tender, and not very prickley: but when as the twigges or branches, are aboue one yere old, then are they (for the most part) cleane without leaues, and then do their thornes waxe harde and sharpe with cruel prickles. Amongst the little small leaues, are the flowers of a faynte or pale yellowe colour, and in shape and proportion like to Broome flowers, but muche smaller, after the whiche come small coddes full of rounde reddishe seede. The roote is long and plyant.

[ 2] The plant whiche the Brabanders do call Gaspeldoren, should seeme to be

a kinde of thornie Broome, the whiche is rough and very full of prickles, and bringeth foorth straight springes or shutes, of a wooddish substance, and with∣out leaues, set thicke and ful of long sharpe pinnes or prickles, very rough, boy∣steous, harde and pricking, amongst which growe small yellowe flowers, and afterwarde coddes, like to the Broome flowers or coddes. The rootes be long growing ouerthwartly in the ground, and almost as plyant and limmer as the roote of Rest harrow or Cammocke.

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Genistilla. Thorne Broome.

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Genista spinosa. Furze.