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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MIlium riseth vp with many hairy stalkes knot∣ted or jointed like wheat. The leaues are long, and like the leaues of the Common Reed. It bringeth forth on the top of the stalke a spoky bush or mane, called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, like the plume or feather of the Pole reed, hanging downe∣wards, of colour for the most part yellow or white; in which groweth the seed, small, hard, and gliste∣ring, couered with a few thinne huskes, out of which it easily falleth. The roots be many, and grow deep in the ground.

2 Milium nigrum is like vnto the former, sauing that the eare or plume of this plant is more loose and large, and the seed somewhat bigger, of a shi∣ning blacke colour.