Bond has also written another series of children's books, the adventures of a guinea pig named Olga da Polga, as well as the animated BBC TV series The Herbs.
Parsley the Lion is a fictional character from the BBC1 children's show The Herbs, created by Michael Bond.
Eventually the new programmes were added including: Tales of the Riverbank, Pogles' Wood, The Herbs, the Trumptonshire trilogy, Mr. Men and Bizzy Lizzy.
The Scottish explorer James Bruce (who calls the town Hor-Cacamoot) spent two months in the town in 1772, disabled with dysentery which was cured only by the herbs of a local medicine-man and the attentions of his companion Yasin.
Gentiana lutea, and by extension the Gentiana genus, was named after Gentius, as a tribute as it was thought that he had found out that the herbs had tonic properties.