...origin. Gerard's account of this transformation, as it affords a remarkable instance of the credulity of the times, is too curious to be omitted. "There are found in the north parts of Scotland, and the illands adjacent called Orchades, certain trees whereon do grow certain Iliells tending to ruflet,...

...meane space take it as it falleth out, the naked and bare truth, though unpolished: There are founde in the north parts of Scotland, and the islands adjacent, called Orchades, certaine trees whereon doe growe certaine shell-fishes, of a white colour, tending to russet, wherein...

...bowels of Nature than my intended purpose will suffer me to wade into, my sufficiency also considered. There are found in the north parts of Scotland, and...Orchades, certain trees whereon do grow certain shells of a white colour, tending to russet, wherein are contained little living creatures; which shells,...

...bowels of Nature than my intended purpose will suffer me to wade into, my sufficiency also considered. There are found in the north parts of Scotland, and...Orchades, certain trees whereon do grow certain shells of a white colour, tending to russet, wherein are contained little living creatures; which shells,...

...been unnoticed, so little conspicuous were they. CLASS II.— BARNACLES AND ACORN SHELLS. CIRRIPEDA. " There are found in the north parts of Scotland and...Orchades, certain trees, whereon do grow certain shells of a white colour, tending to russet, wherein are contained little living creatures; which shells in...

...young or the eggs of sea-birds. Hear what honest Gerarde records in his " Herbal," in 1 597 : — " There are found in the north parts of Scotland, and...orchades, certain trees, whereon do grow certain shells of a white colour, tending to russet, wherein are contained little living creatures ; which shells...

...bowels of Nature than my intended purpose will suffer me to wade into, my sufficiency also considered. There are found in the north parts of Scotland, and...Orchades, certain trees whereon do grow certain shells of a white colour, tending to russet, wherein are contained little living creatures ; which shells,...

...Plants, published in 1597, and long regarded as a botanical authority. " There are found," says he, " in the north parts of Scotland, and the islands adjacent,...Orchades, certain trees, whereon do grow certain shells of a white colour, tending to russet, wherein are contained little living creatures, which shells in...

...on another. Old Gerarde in his " Herbal," first published near the end of the 16th century, says, " There are found in the north parts of Scotland, and...adjacent, called orchades, certain trees whereon do grow shells of a white colour, tending to russet, wherein are contained little living creatures ; which...

...of the same, to end with one of the marvels of this land (we may say of the world) There are founde in the north parts of Scotland, and the islands adjacent, called Orchades, certaine trees whereon doe growe certaine shell fishes, of a white colour, tending to russet, wherein...