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 Nature.

There is no peculier or special vse of these Ferulas, sauing that the liquor or

gummes that floweth out of them, as Sagapenum, Ammoniacum, and Galba∣num, are vsed in medicine, wherefore their nature and vertue shalbe described in the Chapters folowing.

To the Reader.

COnsidering, welbeloued Reader, that we haue written in the Chapters going before of some herbes, out of the whiche flowe very costly sappes or gummes geathered, dried, and preserued, the which are greatly vsed in Medi∣cines and Surgerie, especially as the sappe of Panax, the whiche is called Opo∣panax, and the sappe of Laserpitium, the whiche is named Laser, whiche in farre Countries do flowe out of the same herbes, and are brought into this Coun∣trey, & into all partes of Christendome, of whose strength and vertue we haue not written: therefore haue we in the ende of this part for a conclusion & finish∣ing of the same, written of the nature and vertue of the same gummes. And not onely of the gummes flowing out of the herbes aboue rehearsed: but also of gummes and sappes flowing out of herbes or thereof made, the whiche commonly we finde at the Apothecaries and are vsed in Medicines, although that the herbes (bicause they are not knowen in Christendome) are not writtē or spoken of by vs, omitting the sappes and gummes whiche flowe out of wooddes and trees, as Rosin, Pitche, Turpentine, and suche lyke, we wyll write of the historie of wooddes and trees. And in the description of these gummes and sappes we wyll folowe the learning of the Auncientes, as Dios∣corides, Galen, Plinie, &c. Declaring their names as they are called by the sayd Auncientes in Greeke and in Latine, by the whiche they are nowe at this time knowen to the Apothecaries, like as we haue yet hitherto done and written in the historie of herbes.