The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London

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Title: The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London
Author: Gerard, John, 1545-1612.
Publication: London :: Printed by Adam Islip Ioice Norton and Richard Whitakers,; anno 1633.
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Subject terms: Botany -- Pre-Linnean works -- Early works to 1800.; Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.; Gardens -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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¶ The Names.

This kinde of Reed which I haue Engli∣shed Paper Reed, or Paper plant, is the same (as I do reade) that Paper was made of in Aegypt, before the inuention of paper made of linnen clouts was found out. It is thought by men of great learning and vnderstanding in the Scriptures, and set downe by them for truth, that this plant is the same Reed mentioned in the second chapter of Exodus; whereof was made that basket or cradle, which was dawbed within and without with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of that countrey, called Bitumen Iudai∣cum, wherein Moses was put being commit∣ted to the water, when Pharaoh gaue com∣mandement that all the male children of the Hebrewes should be drowned.