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.
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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 June 2, 2024.

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Of Agrimonie. Chap. xxxix.

❀ The Description.

THe leaues of Agrimonie, are long, & hearie, greene aboue, & somwhat gray∣ish vnder, parted into diuers other smal leaues, snipte round about y^t edges, almost like the leaues of Hemp. The stalke is of two foote & a halfe lōg, or ther∣abouts, rough & hearie, vpon whiche groweth many small yellow floures, one

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aboue an other vpwardes towardes the toppe, after the floures cōmeth the seede somewhat long and rough like to small Burres, hāging downewards, the which being ripe, do hang faste vpon garments, whan one doth but scarsly touche it. The roote is meetely great, long, and blacke.

❀ The Place.

Agrimonie groweth in places not tyl∣led, in rough stony moūtaynes, in hedges and Copses, and by way sides.

❀ The Tyme.

Agrimonie floureth in Iune, and Iu∣ly. The seede is ripe in August. The Agri∣monie that is to be occupied in medicine, must be gathered, and dryed in May.

❀ The Names.

Agrimonie is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine Eupatorium, and Hepatorium: in shoppes Agrimonia: of some Ferraria minor, Concordia, and Marmorella: in Spanish Agramonia: in En∣glish Agrimonie: in French Eupatoire, or Aigremoine: in high Douch Odermenich, Bruchwurtz: in base Almaigne Agrimo∣nie, & of some Leuercruyt, that is to say, Liuerwurte.

[illustration]

Eupatorium.

❀ The Nature.

Agrimonie is of fine and subtill partes, without any manifest heate, it hath power to cut in sunder, with some astriction.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] The Decoction or brothe of Agrimonie dronken, doth clense and open the stoppings of the liuer, and doth strengthen the same, & is specially good against the weakenesse of the same.

[ B] Agrimonie boyled in wine and dronken, helpeth against the bytings of ve∣nemous beasts: the same boyled in water stoppeth the pissing of bloud.

[ C] The seede therof dronken in wine, is singuler against the blouddy flixe and daungerouse laske.

[ D] The leaues of Agrimonie pounde with Swines grease, and layde too hoate, doth cure and heale olde woundes, that are harde to close or drawe to a Scarre.