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.
Cite this Item: "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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20579.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.

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Of Peruincle. Chap. xxi.

❀ The Description.

PEruincle hath many small & slender long branches with ioyntes, wher∣by it spreadeth abroade vppon the ground, creeping & trayling hither and thither. The leaues be greater thā the leaues of Boxe, muche like to Bay leaues in colour & fasshion, sauing that they be far smaller. The floure most cō∣monly is blew, & sometimes white, & tawnie, but very seldome: it is parted into, fiue leaues, somewhat like the floure of great Buglosse, but larger & pleasanter to beholde, yet without sa∣uour. The roote is hearie and yellow.

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Clematis Daphnoides.

❀ The Place.

Peruincle groweth wel, in shadowy,

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moyst places, as in the borders of wooddes, and alongst by hedges.

❀ The Tyme.

It floureth most commonly in Marche and Aprill, but it remayneth greene all the yeare.

❀ The Names.

It is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine Clematis Daphnoides: Plinie in a certaine place nameth it Clematis Aegyptia: & in an other place Cha∣maedaphne: in shoppes Peruinca, and Vinca peruinca: in Italian Prouenqua, in Spanish Peruinqua: in English Peruincle: in French Peruenche, and du Lisseron: in high Douch Ingruen, & Syngruen: in base Almaigne Vincoorde, Ingroen, and Maechden palm.

❀ The Nature.

Peruincle is dry and astringent.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] The decoction of this herbe sodde in wine, and dronken, stoppeth the laske, and the bloudy flixe: it stayeth the immoderate course of the floures, spitting of bloud, and all other fluxe of bloud.

[ B] The same mengled with milke, and oyle of Roses, & put into the Matrix, in a pessarie or Mother suppository, taketh away the paynes of the same.

[ C] The same chewed healeth the tooth-ache, & al stinging of venemouse beasts, if it be applied thereto.

[ D] The same brused and put into the nose, stoppeth nose bleeding.