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.

Of Sterrewurte or Sharewurte. Chap. xxiiij.

❀ The Description.

[ 1] STerrewurte hath a browne, hearie, and woodish stalke, the leaues be lōg, thick, hearie, and of a browne, or swartgreene colour. At the toppe of the branches grow∣eth three or foure shining floures, after the fasshion of Camomill, yellow in the middle and set rounde about with small purple leaues, in order and fasshion like a Sterre, whiche at length do turne into downe, or Cotton, & the plume is carried away with the winde. The roote is bearded with hea∣rie strings.

[ 2] There is an other kinde of this herbe whose floures are not onely yellow in the middle, but the small leaues also growing about the edges in order like the Cammo∣mill floure, are also of yellow colour, but o∣therwise like to the first.

❀ The Place.

Sterrewurte groweth vpon small hil∣lockes, barrowes, or knappes, in Moun∣taynes and high places, and sometimes in wooddes, and in certaine medowes, lying about the riuer of Rheyne.

❀ The Tyme.

It doth most cōmonly floure in August.

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Aster Atticus.

❀ The Names.

This herbe is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine Aster At∣ticus, & Inguinalis: of Vergill Flos Amellus: of some Stellaria: in Italian Alibio: vnknowen in Shoppes: in English Sharewurte or Sterrewurte: in French Aspergoutte menue, or Estoille: in high Douch Megerkraut, Scartenkraut, and Sternkraut: in base Almaigne Sterrecruyt.

❀ The Nature.

It doth refresh and coole, and is almost of temperature like the Rose.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] It is very good against the ouer much heate and burning of the stomake, being layde to outwardly, vpon the same: And being greene stamped, and layd to the botches or impostumes, about the share or priuie members preuayleth much against the same.

[ B] It helpeth and swageth the rednesse and inflammation of the eyes, and fun∣dament

or siege, and the falling downe of the Arse gutte.

[ C] The blew of the floure, dronken in water is good to be giuen to yong chil∣dren, against the Squinancie, and the falling sicknesse.

[ D] Some men say that this herbe putteth away all tumors & swellings of the siege, share, and fundament, yea whan it is but onely carried about a man.