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 Romayne Nettell hath round, rough, hollow, and hearie stalkes. The leaues belong, rough, bur∣ning or stinging, & deepely natched, or dented aboute, be∣twixt the leaues & y^e stalke: it bringeth foorth small rounde and rough buttōs, or pellettes, full of browne, flatte, & shi∣uing seede, like vn∣to lyne-seede, but rounder & smaller.

[ 2] The second kind whiche is our com∣mon great Nettell, is like the aforesayd in heigth and in his rough and stinging stēmes. The leaues be also rough and stinging, and dēted rounde aboute, but

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Vrtica syluestris. The wilde Nettell, or Ro∣mayne Nettell.

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Vrtica maior. The great cōmon Nettell.

not so deepely as the others, most commonly of a swarte greene colour, & some∣times reddish. The seede groweth by long smal threedes, hanging douneward, & is somewhat like the seede of Hirse or Millet, sauing it is smaller. The roote is long, small and yellow, spreading it self here, and there vnder the ground.

[ 3] The small Nettell is like to the Nettels a∣foresayd, but it is much smaller, not exceeding in length a foote, or a foote and a halfe. The stalkes be round and rough, and the leaues belike to the other, sauing they be smaller and greener: The seede is bigger and the roote is shorter.