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] BRounewurte hath a square, browne, hollow stalke, large leaues, natched or dented rounde about, very like vnto Nettell leaues, but smother or playner, and nothing stinging or burning at all. The floures grow a∣bout the toppe of the stalkes, and are small and tawney, hollow like a helmet, or a snayle shell. The seede is small rounde, poynted like to some prety pellots or buttons. The roote is white and knobby, like the roote of Orpyn or Lyblong, wherof we haue spoken Chap. 26.

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Scrophularia maior.

[ 2] There is an other kinde of this herbe, like to the first, in stalkes, leaues, floures, and huskes, or seede vesselles, but it differeth in the roote: for his roote is not knobby or swollen like to the other, but full of threddish strings: otherwise there is no difference betwixt this kinde and the other, which they call Scrophularia maior: for y^e stalke is also square, and the leaues like to Nettell leaues, and are cut, & dented round about in like manner: the floures are like to open helmets also, &c. so that oftentimes, those

that take nothede to the differēce in the rootes, do gather the one for the other.

[ 3] There is yet a thirde kinde which is nothing like to the others, sauing only in the floures and seede, wherein it is very like to the other Scrophularies: wherefore wee haue thought good to make mention of it in this place: his stalke is right, or straight and rounde. The leaues are like to Roquet leaues, but smaller and browner. The floures are like to them aforesayde, sauing they be smaller and of a blewe colour, straked with small strakes of white. The roote is threddy, like the roote of the second kinde of Scrophularia, and is euer∣lasting, putting forth yearely new springs, as also doth the rootes of the other two Scrophularies.