^^^ The Herbal in England 1 1 1 



pendent fruits, out of which geese are dropping into a lake 

 or stream. 



Hector Boethius [Boece] in his Scottish Chronicle 



Thebreede of Barnakles. 



Text-fig. 54. "The breede of Barnakles" 

 [Gerard, The Herball, 1597]. 



gives a quaint account of the origin of geese from drift- 

 wood in the sea, " in the small boris and hollis " of which 

 "growis small wormis. First thay schaw thair held and 



