A nievve herball, or historie of plantes wherin is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes: their diuers [and] sundry kindes: their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes: their names, natures, operations, and vertues: and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, commonly vsed in physicke. First set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, physition to the Emperour: and nowe first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte Esquyer.

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Title: A nievve herball, or historie of plantes wherin is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes: their diuers [and] sundry kindes: their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes: their names, natures, operations, and vertues: and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, commonly vsed in physicke. First set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, physition to the Emperour: and nowe first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte Esquyer.
Author: Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585.
Publication: At London [i.e. Antwerp :: Printed by Henry Loë, sold] by my Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne,; 1578.
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Subject terms: Herbals.; Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800.; Botany -- Pre-Linnean works.
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Of Fumeterre. Chap. xv.

❀ The Kindes.

There is two kindes of Fumeterre, (as Plinie writeth in the .xiij. chap. of the .xxv. booke of his naturall History.) Wherof the first is the com∣mon Fumetory the which was knowen & vsed in Medicine, of Galen, Paule, & other the Greeke Physitions. The second is an other herbe, onely knowen of Plinie: the whiche both are knowen in this countrey.

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Capnos fumaria. Fumeterre.

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Capnos
Plinij.
Phragmites.
Nedge Fumeterre.

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❀ The Description.

[ 1] THe common Fumeterre hath a square stalke, beset with small leaues, very tender, weake, and finely iagged, & somewhat gray like asshie colour, like to the leaues of Coriander but much smaller: the floure is small and pur∣ple, growing togither like a littell cluster, and changeth into littell small knops or beries, wherein is very small seede. The roote is but simple with a very few small heares or strings about the same.

[ 2] Small Fumeterre, hath also many slender branches, vpon whiche groweth small iagged leaues, in colour, taste, and in fashion also, somewhat like the Fu∣meterre aforesayde. It hath also certaine small threedes or clasping tendrels, by the whiche it taketh holdfast in all places by Hedges, and other herbes. The floures are small and clustering togither, of a white colour mixed with a littell blew: after the floures there commeth forth small huskes or coddes, in which is conteyned the seede. The roote is single and of the length of a fingar.

❀ The Place.

Fumeterre groweth best amongst wheate & Barley, also it groweth in gar∣dens amongst potherbes, in Vineyardes, and such other open places.

Small Fumeterre groweth vnder hedges, in the borders of fieldes, and a∣bout olde walles.

❀ The Tyme.

They do bothe floure in May and Iune.

❀ The Names.

[ 1] The first of these herbes is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in La∣tine Fumaria and Capnium: in Shoppes Fumus terrae: in Spanish Palomilla, y palomina, y yerua malarin̄a: in English Fumeterre: in French Fumeterre: in high Douch Erdtrauch, Taubencropff, Katzenkorbel: in base Almaigne, Grysecom, Duyuekeruel, and Eerdtroock.

[ 2] The second is called of Plinie Capnos, & Pes Gallinaceus: Therfore Capnos Plinij, and this is that whiche is called Hermolaus, of Aëtius, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, in Latine Capnum Chelidoniū, not knowen in shoppes, some following Plinie do call it in Latine Pes gallinaceus: in French, Pied de geline: in base Almaigne cleyn Eerdtroock: in English Hedge Fumeterre, and Hennes foote.

❀ The Nature.

Fumeterre is hoate and dry, almost in the second degree, and so is Hennes foote, as one may know by the sharpnes, and bitter taste.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] The iuyce of Fumeterre dropped into the eyes, doth sharpen and quicken the sight, the same mengled with gumme, and layd to the eye liddes, will cause that the heare that hath bene ones pulled of, shall not grow againe.

[ B] The decoction of Fumeterre dronken, driueth forth by vrine & siege all hoate Cholerique, burnte, & pernicious humors. Bysides this it is very good against the foule scurffe, and rebellious olde sores, and the great Pockes.

[ C] The iuyce of Fumeterre dronken worketh the like effect, & for this purpose is of greater power, than the Decoction of Fumeterre.

[ 1] [ D] Henfoote or hedge Fumeterre (as Plinie sayth) is of the same nature & ver∣tue as the other Fumeterre: and is a singular medicine against the weakenesse of the sight, especially for such as seeme to see small strawes, if the iuyce thereof be dropped into the eyes.