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.

THIS herbe hath a weake slender stalke, with ioyntes or knottes, the leaues are greater than the leaues of Fenill, like to the leaues of Pine tree. At the top of y^e stalkes groweth rounde spokie tuffetes full of little yellowe flowers, the whiche afterwarde do turne into broade seede. The roote is thicke and long, blacke without, and white within, of a strōg gree∣uous smell, and full of yellow sap or liquer smelling not muche vnlike to Sulphur, or Brymstone, and it beareth at the hyghest of the roote aboue the earth a certayne thicke or bushe of heare, like to the rootes of Li∣banotides, before described, amōgst whiche the leaues and stalke do spring vp.