BROOM. See BOTANY.
Broom-Flower gives the denomination to an order of knights instituted by St Louis of France on his marriage. The motto was Exaltat humiles, and the collar was made up of broom flowers and husks, enamelled and intermixed with fleurs de lis of gold, set in open lozenges, enamelled white, chained together; to which was suspended a cross florence of gold. This answers to what the French called Ordre de la Géneste, from the name of a species of broom.