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.
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 May 8, 2024.

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Of Blattaria / or Mothe Mulleyn. Chap. lxxxij.

❀ The Description.

THe leaues of this herbe are greene, smooth, long, iagged or snipt round a∣bout, and spread abroade vpon the ground, somewhat like to the leaues of Ver∣uayne, from the middest of those leaues doo spring vp two or three stems, bearing fayre yellow floures, (and sometimes also it bea∣reth purple floures,) so lyke to the floures of Mulleyn in smel, fasshion and quantitie, that oftentimes (as witnesseth Plinie) this herbe hath bene gathered for wilde Mulleyne. After the floures, there arise small knoppes or bullets, in whiche the seede is conteyned, smaller than the seede of Mulleyn. The roote is shorte and of wooddy substance.

❀ The Place.

This herbe groweth by way sides, in Vineyardes, and certayne fieldes, also about Riuers, and is seldome founde in this coun∣trey.

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Blattaria.

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❧ The Tyme.

It floureth in Iune, and Iuly.

❀ The Names.

Plinie calleth it in Latine Blattaria, & some call it Verbascum Leptophyllon: it maybe called in English Purple, or Mothe Mulleyn: it is called in French Herbe aux mites, Herbe vermineuse, and Blattaire: in high Douch Schabenkraut, & Goldtknopflin, and of some in base Almaigne Mottencruyt.

❀ The Nature.

As it may be well perceyued by the bitter sauour, the herbe is hoate & dry, almost in the third degree.

❀ The Vertues.

As concerning the vertues of this herbe, we finde none other thing wryten of it, sauing that the Mothes, and Battes do incontinently come to this herbe, whersoeuer it be strowen or layde.