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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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 May 14, 2024.
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Aristolochia.
Aristolochia is of three sortes. The fyrst is called in latin aristolochia rotunda, and it may be named in englishe round Ofter Lu∣rior astrolochia, or round hertworte. Some abuse for thys herbe, Holwort, whiche is in Pleni Capnos phragmites. But their error is easely perceyued by the readynge of the discription of Dioscorides. This kind gro∣weth not in Englande, but in Italy and in Fraunce plentuously. The second is called Aristolochia longa, and it groweth very li∣tle in Englande that I haue sene, but about Bon in Germany it groweth in many hed∣ges by the vineyardes, but there it bringeth furth no fruite, but besyde Lake decome, it bryngeth furth fruite lyke blacke peares and seede lyke mennes hertes, thys kynde may be called in englishe longe Hertworth or longe Astolochia The third kinde is cal∣led
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Clematites & it may be called in english small Hertworte, it groweth in high Alma∣ny, in Basile. Herteworte is hote and drye about the thirde degree.
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