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.

The great Bindweed is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine, Smilax Laeuis: of Galen and Paulus Aegineta, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 it is surnamed Laeuis or smooth, because the stalkes and branches thereof haue no prickles at all. Dolichus called also Smilax hortensis, or Kidney beane, doth differ from this: and likewise Smilax the tree, which the Latines call Taxus: in English, the Yew tree. The later Herba∣rists do call this Bindweed Volubilis maior, Campanella, Funis arborum, Convoluulus albus and Smilax lae∣uis maior: in like manner Pliny in his 21. booke, 5. chapt. doth also name it Conuoluulus. It is thought to be Ligustrum, not the shrub priuet, but that which Martial in his first booke of Epigrams spea∣keth of, writing against Procillus.

The small Bindweed is called Convoluulus minor, and Smilax laeuis minor, Volubilis minor: in high Dutch, Windkraut: in Low Dutch, Wrange: in French, Liseron: in Italian, Vilucchio: in Spanish, Campanilla Yerua: in English, Withwinde, Bindeweed, and Hedge-bels.