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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TVrky Millet is a stranger in England. It hath many high stalkes, thicke, and jointed com∣monly with some nine ioynts, beset with many long and broad leaues like Turky Wheat: at the top whereof groweth a great and large tuft or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 like the great Reed. The seed is round and sharpe pointed, of the bignesse of a Lentill, some∣times red, and now and then of a fuller blacke co∣lour. It is fastned with a multitude of strong slen∣der roots like vnto threds: the whole plant hath the forme of a Reed: the stalkes and eares when the seed is ripe are red.