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.

It is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine also Cnicus, or Cnecus: in shops, Cartamus, or Carthamum: of diuers, Crocus hortensis, and Crocus Saracenicus: in Italian, Zaffarano Saracinesco, and Zaffarano saluatico: in Spanish, Alasor, and Semente de papagaios: in high Dutch, Widen Zaffran: in French, Safran 〈◊〉〈◊〉: in English, Bastard Saffron: of some, Mocke Saffron, and Saffron D'orte, as though you should say Saffron de horte, or of the garden. Theophrastus and Pliny call it Cnecus vrbana, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or tame and garden bastard Saffron, that it may differ from Atractilis, which they make to be a kinde of Cnicus syluestris, or wilde Bastard Saffron, but rather a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the Holy Thistle.