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.

Of Tabaco, or Henbane of Peru

3 pages in this part of Gerard's Herball.

Of Tabaco, or Henbane of Peru

The Kindes.

Of Tabaco, or Henbane of Peru: Europe

These were first brought into Europe out of America, which is called the West Indies, in which is the province or countrey of Peru: but…

Of Tabaco, or Henbane of Peru: Nicolaus

The people of America call it Petun. Some, as Lobel and Pena, have given it these Latine names, Sacra herba, Sancta herba, and Sanasancta…

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