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 Water-Docke

2 pages in this part of Gerard's Herball.

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 much…

Of Water-Docke: Rubarb

The Monks Rubarb is called in Latine, Rumex sativus, and Patientia, or Patience, which word is borrowed of the French, who call this herb…

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