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.

❀ The Description.

[ 1] GReat Celandyne hath a tender stalke, round, hearie, and full of braunches, euery braunche hauing diuers ioyntes and knottes. The leaues much like vnto Colombyne, but tenderer & deeper iagged or cut, of a grayish colour by one side, and greene vpon the other side somewhat drawing towards blew. The floure is at the toppe of the braunches fayre and yellow like the wall Gyl∣lofer, & turneth into long coddes or huskes, in them is the seede, whiche is small and pale. All the herbe is of a strong smell: and the iuyce (whereof the floures, the leaues, the stalke, and the roote is full, and commeth forth whan they be ei∣ther brused or broken) is yellow as Saffron, sharpe and bitter, but that of the roote specially, the which is yellow as golde. The roote hath many small strings or threddy laces hanging thereby.

[ 2] The small Celandyne is a low herbe growing by the ground, hauing a lit∣tle small brownish stem, the leaues be small and somewhat round, like Iuie leaues, but much smaller, tenderer, fofter, and smother. The flower is yellow

like to a golde cup, or Crowfoote floure. The roote is full of small threddes, or hearie laces, with diuers knottes in them like to wheate or barley cornes.

[ 3] THere is an other herbe muche like to small Celandyne in leaues & floures, the which we may call Marsh Mary∣golde, or Braue Celandyne, the leaues be of a swarte greene colour, somwhat round, and shining, like to a Popler leafe, but lar∣ger & a little cut, or purlde about the edges. The stalke is round, and diuided into ma∣ny braunches, vpon which are the pleasant yellow floures, like to yellow Crowfoote or golde Cup, but larger and fayrer to be∣hold. The floures being gone or fallen, yee shal see three or foure small huskes or cods, like to the huskes of Colombyne, wherein is cōteyned smal yellow seedes. The roote is great and thicke, with many threddy strings.