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.

This is thought to be the plant called of Pliny, 〈◊〉〈◊〉; whereof he hath written, lib. 21. ca. 17. in this manner: About Opuns is the herbe Opuntia, to mans taste sweet, and it is to be maruelled, that the root should be made of the leaues, and that it should so grow. Opuns is a city neere vnto Phocis in Greece, as Pausanias, Strabo, and Pliny testifie: but it is commonly called in Latine, Ficus Indica: of the Indians, Tune, and Tunas, and also Anapallus, as testifieth Bellonius: in 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Indi∣an Fig tree.

There is a certaine other described for the Indian Fig tree, by Theophrastus, lib. 4. which Pliny, lib. 12. cap. 5. doth eloquently expresse almost in the same words, but 〈◊〉〈◊〉 into Latine, whereof we intend to speake in the next chapter.