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] THe leafe of the first kind of Penny∣wurte, is rounde and thicke, much lyke to Iuie leaues, but rounder, & somewhat bluntly indēted about, with some hollownes or concauitie aboue, & a shorte stem vnderneath in the middell of the leafe. The stalke is small and hol∣low, aboute a spanne long, with diuers littell long floures, of a whitishe or in∣carnate colour. The roote is white, and rounde, like an Olyue.

[illustration]

Cotyledon aquatica. Water Pennywurte.

[ 2] The second kinde hath brode thicke and somewhat rounde leaues, spread

abroade, round about the stalke like to Syngreene or Houslike, from the mid∣dell whereof, springeth vp the tender stalke, bearing small floures.

[ 3] Water Pennywurte hath littell smothe leaues, rounde and hollow aboue, but not very much, euen as it were a small shollow plate, the stem is vnder∣neth in the middest of the leafe, somewhat drawing to wardes the proportion of Wall Pennywurte, but it is smaller, smother and of a swarter colour, and and somewhat deeper natched or dented, but yet bluntly also. The floures be very small and white, and grow beneth, or also vnder the leaues. The rootes be smal and hearie, creeping and putting forth vpon euery side many smal yong leaues.