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.
Publication: [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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Git.

Git is named in greeke Melanthion, in englishe herbe Git or Nigella romana, in duche Schwartz kummich, in frenche Niel. It groweth in gardines onely that I haue sene, sauynge that in Germany there gro∣weth in the corne fieldes after the corne is caried away a certeyne kinde of Git which hath a good sauour, & is in al poyntes lyke the gardine Nigella, sauynge that the ve∣selles whiche holde the blacke seede are not al in one, as the other haue, and smelleth not so wel ful out, as the other do. It is hote & dry in the thyrde degree.