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

¶ The Description.

1 HErbe Terrible is a small shrub two or three cubits high, bran ched with ma∣ny small twigges, hauing a thin rinde first browne, then purple, with many little and thinne leaues like Myrtle. The floures are rough like the middle of Scabious floures, of a blew purple colour. The root is two fingers thicke, browne of colour, and of a wooddie substance: the whole plant very bitter, and of an vnpleasant taste like Chamelaea, yea somewhat stronger.

2 Tartonraire, called in English Gutwoort, groweth by the sea, and is Catharticall, and a stranger with vs. In the mother tongue of the Massilians, it is called Tartonraire, of that abundant

and vnbridled 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of purging, which many times doth cause 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and such like imm∣derate fluxes, especially when one not skilfull in the vse thereof shall administer the pouder 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 leaues, mixed with any liquor. This plant groweth in manner of a shrub, like 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 geth forth many smal, tough, and pliant twigs, set about with a thin and cottony hairinesse, & 〈◊〉〈◊〉 many leaues of a glistering siluer colour, growing from the lowest part euen to the top, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 like Alypum before mentioned: and vpon these tough and thick branches (if my memory faile 〈◊〉〈◊〉) do grow small floures, first white, afterward of a pale yellow: the seed is of a russet colour: 〈◊〉〈◊〉 hard and wooddy, not very hot in the mouth, leauing vpon the tongue some of his inbred heat and taste, somewhat resembling common Turbith, and altogether without milke.