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 great Clote hath leaues very large and long, greater than Gourde leaues, of a swarte greene colour, but of a grayish colour on the side next y^e ground. The stalke is round & hollow, of colour somwhat white & redde, with diuers side bowghes & braunches set ful of small leaues: vpon the braun∣ches there groweth small bullets or rounde balles, garnisshed full of little crookes or hookes, wherewithal they take holde or cleaue fast, and hang vpon garments: at last the sayde bullets or knoppes do open and put forth a fayre purple, thromde, or veluet floure. The roote is single, long, blacke w••thout, white within, and in taste bitter.

[ 2] The lesser Clote Burre hath grayish leaues like vnto Orache, iagged or snipte round about the edges. The stalke is a foote and half long, full of blacke spottes, diuiding it selfe into many branches or winges. Betwixt the leaues and the sayde branches, there groweth three or foure small Burres in a cluster, somewhat long, like to a small Oliue, or Cornell berry, prickly, and cleauing fast vnto garments. In the middell of those small Burres, there groweth forth as it were a little Crownet, somewhat aboue the Burres, vpon whiche groweth small floures, the which do perish after their opening, and do fall with their Crowne: than commeth the little Burres with long seede: the which af∣terward do neuer open, nor floure otherwise than is aforesayde. The roote is redde, and full of small threedes or hearie strings.