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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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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Siliqua.

Siliqua is not as the commune sort take it for the shale onely of a peascod, or of such lyke pulse, but it is taken for a certeine tree, and fruite which is called in greke Ceratia, or Ceratonia, in Italian Carobe, in duche saynte Iohans Brot. I met wyth certeyne Grecians whiche dwelled in Pelopeneso, that called it in their speache Xyloceratō. Itmay be called in english a Carobe tree, and the fruite Carobes or Carobbeanes. I se in Colon one litle Carob tree, and no where els that I remembre.

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