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.

Milke-wort is called by Dodonaeus, Flos Ambaru∣alis; so called because it doth especially flourish in the Crosse or Gang weeke, or Rogation weeke; of which floures the maidens which vse in the countries to walke the Procession doe make them∣selues garlands and nosegaies: in English we may call it Crosse-floure, Procession-floure, Gang∣floure, Rogation-floure, and Milkewort, of their vertues in procuring milke in the brests of nurses. Hieronymus Tragus, as also Dioscorides calleth it Po∣lygalon. ‡ Gesner calls this Crucis flos; and in his Epistles he nameth it Amarella: it is vulgarly knowne in Cheapside to the herbe-women by the name of Hedge-Hyssop; for they take it for Gra∣tiola, or Hedge-Hyssop, and sell it to such as are ignorant for the same. ‡ [ A]