Of Goose-foote.
The description.
Goose-foote is a common herbe and thought to be a kinde of Orach: it riseth vp with a stalke a cubite high or higher, somewhat chamfered and braunched: the leaues be broade, smooth, sharpe pointed, shining, hauing certaine deepe cuts about the edges, & resembling the foote of a Goose. The flowers be small, something red, the seede standeth in clusters vpon the top of the branches, being very like to the seed of wilde Orach, & the roote is deuided into sundrie strings.
Text in Gerard's own spelling (the long s is printed as s), transcribed by the Source Library (CC BY-SA 4.0). A chapter may run onto pages not yet transcribed. Gerard wrote within Galenic medicine; nothing here is advice.