The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare - Part 124
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_Gerard._ Beane and his kinds.

_Cotgrave._ Febue; _A Beane_.

BILBERRY.

_Catholicon._ A Blabery.

_Cotgrave._ Hurelles; _Whoortle berries_, _wyn-berries_, _Bill-berries_, _Bull-berries_.

BIRCH.

_Promptorium._ Byrche tre; _Lentiscus_, _cinus_.

_Catholicon._ Byrke; _Lentiscus_.

_Turner._ Birch tree; Birke tree.

_Gerard._ Of the Birch tree.

_Cotgrave._ Bouleau; _Birche_.

BLACKBERRIES.

_Turner._ Blake bery bush.

_Gerard._ Blacke-berry.

_Cotgrave._ Meuron; _A blacke, or bramble berrie_.

BOX.

_Promptorium._ Box tre; _Buxus_.

_Catholicon._ A Box tre; _buxus buxum_.

_Turner._ Box.

_Gerard._ Of the Box tree.

_Cotgrave._ Blanc bois; _Box_, _&c._

BRAMBLE.

_Promptorium._ Brymbyll.

_Turner._ Bramble bushe.

_Gerard._ Of the Bramble or blacke-berry bush.

_Cotgrave._ Ronce; _A Bramble or Brier_.

BRIER.

_Promptorium._ Brere or Brymmeylle; _Tribulus_, _vepris_.

_Catholicon._ A Brere; _carduus_, _tribulus_, _vepres_, _veprecula_.

_Turner._ Brier tree.

_Gerard._ The Brier or Hep tree.

_Cotgrave._ See BRAMBLE.

BROOM.

_Promptorium._ Brome, brusche; _Genesta_, _mirica_.

_Catholicon._ Brune; _genesta_, _merica_, _tramarica_.

_Turner._ Broume.

_Gerard._ Broome.

_Cotgrave._ Genest; _Broome_.

BULRUSH.

_Promptorium._ Holrysche or Bulrysche; _Papirus_.

_Cotgrave._ Jonc; _A Rush, or Bulrush_.

BURS AND BURDOCK.

_Catholicon._ A Burre; _bardona_, _glis_, _lappa_, _paliurus_.

_Turner._ Clote Bur.

_Gerard._ Clote Burre, or Burre Docke.

_Cotgrave._ Bardane la grande; _The burre-dock_, _clote_, _bur_, _great burre_.