The names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe, Duche [and] Frenche with the commune names that herbaries and apotecaries vse. Gathered by William Turner.

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Title
The names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe, Duche [and] Frenche with the commune names that herbaries and apotecaries vse. Gathered by William Turner.
Author
Turner, William, d. 1568.
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[Imprinted at London :: By [S. Mierdman for] John Day and Wyllyam Seres, dwellynge in Sepulchres Parish at the signe of the Resurrection a litle aboue Holbourne Conduite,
[1548]]
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Subject terms
Botany -- Nomenclature -- Early works to 1800.
Botany -- Pre-Linnean works -- Early works to 1800.
Plant names, Popular -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"The names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe, Duche [and] Frenche with the commune names that herbaries and apotecaries vse. Gathered by William Turner." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14052.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 9, 2024.

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Cyperus.

Cyperus is called in latin Iuncus angu∣losus, in english, englishe Galāgal, in duch wyld Galgē, in frēch Souchet. The best & rightest Cyperus groweth in Rome in cer∣teyne

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gardines. One kynde of it which we call Galangal groweth in many gardines in Englande. Cyperus Babilonions is the commune Balanga solde in the Puticaries shoppes, after Ruellus and after the same, cyperus indicus is a roote called of the Po∣ticaries curcuma. Cyperus is hote & dry.

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