Gerard

( John ), an English botanist (1545-1607), who compiled the Catalog us Arborum, Fruticum, et Plan to rum, tam Indigen arum quam Exotic arum, in Horto Johanis Gerardi . Also author of the Herbal or General History of Plants (1597). Of these most helpful herbs yet tell we but a few, To those unnumbered sorts of simples here that grew... Not skillful Gerard yet shall ever find them all. Drayton, Polyolbion xiii. (1613). Gerard , attendant of Sir Patrick Charter is (provost of Perth).—Sir W. Scott, Fair Maid of Perth (time, Henry IV.).