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 first kinde called of vs great Buglosse of the garden, hath lōg, rough swartegreene, hearie & sharpe leaues, almost like to the leaues of Lettice, but longer & sharper at the ende. The stem is rough and pricking, of two or three foote high, wherevpon groweth many proper littell floures, eche one parted into fiue small leaues, like to littell wheeles, of a fayre purple colour at the first, but afterwardes azure. Whan they are fallen, ye may see in the rough huskes, three or foure long gray seedes, full of riftes and wrinckles. The

roote is long and single and blackish in the outside.

[ 2.3] The lesser Buglosses in their rough and hearie leaues and stalkes, and also [ 4] in their rootes are like to the aforesaide: sauing they be lesse: for their stalkes be shorter, their leaues smaller and narrower: their littell floures are in pro∣portion like to the others, sauing they be smaller, and one is of a cleere blew or skie colour, and other is of a browne violet, or a blew like to a Cyanus, the third is yellow, and in proportion long and hollow. The seede also is like the other sauing it is smaller and blacker. The rootes of the Buglosses and especially of the firste kinde of the lesser Buglosses, are of a diepe redde colour, and are vsed to die, and colour things withall.

[ 5] The wilde kinde of Buglosse is like to the small Buglosses, & specially like to the second kinde, sauing the leaues be rougher, smaller, and narrower. The floures also be like the aforesaide, sauing they be a great deale smaller & blew. The seede is small and browne. The roote long and slender.