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 Anthyllis. Chap. vij.

❀ The Kindes.

ANthyllis (as saith Dioscorides) is of two sortes. Whereof one may be cal∣led great Anthyllis, and the other small Anthyllis.

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Anthyllis prior. Great Anthyllis.

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Anthyllis altera, Kali species. Small Anthyllis.

❀ The Description.

[ 1] 1 THe first Anthyllis in his stalke & leaues, is not much vnlike vnto Len∣till, sauing that it is whiter, softer, and sinaller. The stalke is of a foote high, white and softe, with leaues spred broade white and softe also, but smaller & thicker then Lentill leaues: the floures clustering togi∣ther at the toppe of the stalke, of a yellow or pale colour. The seede is in small huskes. The roote is small and of wooddy substance.

[ 2] The second is not much vnlike Chamaepythis. It hath fiue or six small braū∣ches or more, creping or trayling alongst the ground, thicke set, with little small narrow leaues, betwixt whiche & the stalkes there riseth small purple floures, with seede according. The roote is small, and of the length of a fingar. The whole herbe is full of sape, & salt like Tragus, whereof we shal speake hereafter, and of this herbe they make Axsen, whiche is vsed for the making of glasses.

❀ The Place.

It groweth in salt sandy grounds, as in Zeland alongst the coast, where there is store of it.

❀ The Tyme.

It floureth in Iune, and the seede is rype in Iuly.

❀ The Names.

[ 1] The first kinde is called of Dioscorides in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. And we haue na∣med it Anthyllis prior, as a difference from the second Anthyllis. Plinie calleth it in Latine Anthyllon, Anthyllion, and Anthycellon: vnknowen of the Apothe∣caries. Some Arboristes do call it Glaudiola, the which worde is deriued from Glaux, and some iudge it to be Glaux, albeit it is not the right Glaux.

[ 2] The second is named in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine Anthyllis altera, as

a difference from the first Anthyllis: some of our time do call it Borda.

❀ The Nature.

It is dry, and serueth properly, to heale and close vp woundes.

❀ The Vertues.

[ 1] [ A] If one drinke halfe an ounce of the first Anthyllis: it shall preuayle much a∣gainst the hoate pisse, the Strangury or difficultie to make water, and against the payne of the Reynes.

[ B] The same mingled with milke and oyle of Roses, is good for the Matrix or Mother being charged and oppressed with colde humors, to be applied or layde outwardly to the belly.

[ C] Also it cureth woundes by it self, being layde vpō them, or being mixte with salues, oyntments, or oyles.

[ 2] [ D] The other Anthyllis taken with Oximell (that is honied Vineger) is good for them that haue the falling sickenesse.