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.

Dioscorides description doth sufficiently declare, that this herbe is Stratiotes Millefolium: in Greeke, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: the height of the herbe sheweth it, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the leaues agree; there is some ambiguity or doubt in the colour of the floures, which Dioscorides describeth to be white, as the vulgar copies haue; but Andreas Lacuna addeth out of the old booke, of a yellow colour: it is named of the later age, Millefolium minus, or little Yarrow, and Millefolium luteum, yellow Yarrow, or Nose-bleede: the Apothecaries and common people know it not.