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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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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Gerard, John, 1545-1612.
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London :: Printed by Adam Islip Ioice Norton and Richard Whitakers,
anno 1633.
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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 Description.

1 THe stalkes of Goates Organy are slender, hard and wooddy, of a blackish colour; where∣on are set long leaues, greater than those of the wilde Time, sweete of smell, rough, and somewhat hairy. The floures be small, and grow out of little crownes or wharles round about the top of the stalkes, tending to a purple colour. The root is small and threddy.

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† 1.1 1 Tragoriganum Dod. Goats Marierome.
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† 1.2 Tragoriganum Lob. Goats Marierome.
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† 1.3 2 Tragoriganum Clusij. Clusius his Goats Marierome.
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‡ 3 Tragoriganum Cretense. Candy Goats Marierome.

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2 Carolus Clusius hath set forth in his Spanish Obseruations another sort of Goats Marierome growing vp like a small shrub: the leaues are longer and more hoarie than wilde Marierome, and also narrower, of a hot biting taste, but of a sweet smell, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 not very pleasant. The floures do stand at the top of the stalkes in spokie rundles, of a white colour. The root is thicke and wooddy.

‡ 3 This differs little in forme and magnitude 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the last described, but the branches are of a blacker colour, with rougher and darker coloured leaues: the floures also are lesser, and of a purple colour. Both this and the last described continue alwaies greene, but this last is of a much more fragrant smell. This floures in March, and was found growing wilde by Clusius in the fields of Valentia: he calls it Tragoriganum Hispanicum tertium. Pena and Lobel call it Tragoriganum Cre∣tense apud Venetas; that is, the Candy Goats Marierome of the Venetians. ‡

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