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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WIdow-waile is a small shrub about two cubits high. The stalke is of a wooddy substance, branched with many small twigs, full of little leaues like Priuet, but smaller and blac∣ker, on the ends whereof grow small pale yellow floures: which being past, there succee∣deth a three cornered berrie like the Tithymales, for which cause it was called Tricoccos, that is, three berried Chamelaea: these berries are greene at the first, red afterward, and browne when they be withered, and containe in them an oylie fatnesse like that of the Oliue, being of an hot and bi∣ting taste, and that doe burne the mouth, as do both the leaues and rinde. The root is hard and wooddy.