The names of herbes, A.D. 1548. Edited, with an introd., an index of English names, and an indentification of the plants enumerated by Turner.

  • William Turner
Date:
1881
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Credit: The names of herbes, A.D. 1548. Edited, with an introd., an index of English names, and an indentification of the plants enumerated by Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto.

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    Gingidium. Gingidium except I be deceyued with a great sort of learned me, is the herbe whiche Ms called in englishe Cheruel, in duche Keruel oder korbel kraute, in frenche Cerfuile. Cheruel is called of some wryters Cherephillum, & of the comune sorte Cerefolium. Git. Git is named in greeke Melanthion, in englishe herbe Git or Nigella romana, in duche Schwartz hummich, in frenche Niel. It groweth in gardines onely that I haue sene, sauynge that in Germany there groweth in the corne fieldes after the come is caried away a certeyne kinde of Git which hath a good sauour, & is in al poyntes lyke the gardine Nigella, sauynge that the veselles whiche holde the blacke seede are not al in one, as the other haue, and smelleth^ not so wel ful out, as the other do. It is hote & dry in the thyrde degree. G las turn. Glastu is called in greke Isatis, in english wad, & not Ode as some corrupters of the englishe tonge do nikename it, in duch waid or weid in french Guesde. Wad is como in Juliker land, & some is now set in England. The wild wad groweth pletuously in Germany beside the Rhene, & in many corne fieldes in hye Almany. Wyld wad is called in Englishe ashe of Hierusale. It dryeth muche. Glaux. ^Glaux is very straunge in Englande, for I neuer sawe the ryghte Glaux in England, sauing it that was brought out of Italy by John Falconer. It groweth in Flauders by the sea syde, as I remebre .iij. myles fro Dunkyrke. It may be called in englishe sea Trifoly. Glycyrrhiza. Glycyrrhiza called in latin Radix dulcis is named in english Lycores, in duch Sueszholtz, or Lycoris or Clarish, in frenche Ercu- > D iij, back. '>■ [swelleth.] 3 D iiij.
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