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 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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01622.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 29, 2025.

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1 COwslips of Ierusalem, or the true and right Lungwort, hath rough, hairy, and large leaues of a brown green color, confusedly spotted with diuers spots, or drops of white: a∣mongst which spring vp certaine stalkes, a span long, bearing at the top many fine floures, grow∣ing together in bunches like the floures of cow∣slips, sauing that they be at the first red, or pur∣ple, and sometimes blew, and oftentimes al these colours at once. The floures being fallen, there come small buttons full of seed. The root is blacke and threddy. ‡ This is sometimes found with white floures. ‡

2 The second kinde of Lungwort is like vn∣to the former, but greater in each respect: the leaues bigger than the former, resembling wilde Buglosse, yet spotted with white spots like the former: the floures are like the other, but of an exceeding shining red colour.

3 Carolus Clusius setteth forth a third kinde of Lungwoort, which hath rough and hairie leaues, like vnto wilde Buglosse, but narrower: among which rises vp a stalke a foot high, bea∣ring at the top a bundle of blew floures, in fa∣shion like vnto those of Buglosse or the last de∣scribed.

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