Gerard's Herball

John Gerard's Elizabethan herbal in its glorious original prose — medow-grasse to the barnacle tree, with the vertues, the folk-lore, and the long s intact.

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Introduction

8 pages

Of Medow-Grasse

THere be sundry and infinite kindes of Grasses not mentioned by the Antients, either as unnecessarie to be set downe, or unknowne to them…

Of Couch-Grasse or Dogs-Grasse

The Description. (dagger)1 THe common or best known dogs grasse or Couch-grasse hath long leaves of a whitish greene colour: the stalke is…

Of Cotton-Grasse

The Description. 1 THis strange Cotton-Grasse doth rather resemble grasse than rushes, and may indifferently be taken for either, for that…

Of Reeds

The Kindes.

Of Sugar-Cane

The Description. 1 SUgar Cane is a pleasant and profitable Reed, having long stalkes seven or eight foot high, joynted or kneed like unto…

Of Paper Reed

PAper Reed hath many large flaggie leaves somewhat triangular and smooth, not much unlike those of Cats-taile, rising immediately from a…

Of Burre-Reed

The Description. 1 THe first of these plants hath long leaves, which are double edged, or sharpe on both sides, with a sharpe crest in the…

Of Cats-Taile

The Description.

Of Stitch-Wort

The Description.

Of the Floure De-Luce

The Kindes.

Of Ginger

The Description.

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Highlights

Of Sneesewoort

The Description. 1 THe small Sneese-woort hath many round and brittle branches, beset with long & narrow leaves, hackt about the…

Of Mede-Sweet, or Queene of the Medowes

The Description.

Of Wood-Binde, or Hony-Suckle

The Description.

Of Clownes Wound-Wort, or All-Heale

The Description.

Of Corne

THus far have I discoursed upon Grasses, Rushes, Spartum, Flags, and Floure de-luces: my next labor is to set downe for your…

Of Water-Docke

The Description. 1 THe great water-dock hath very long and great leaves, stiffe and hard, not unlike to the garden Patience, but…

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1927Year
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