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.

THe Marygolde hath three or foure stalkes of a foote and a half long, set with leaues somewhat long & large, and of a white greene colour: at the toppe of the stalkes growe pleasant bright & shining yellow floures, somewhat strong in sauour, the whiche do close, at the setting downe of the Sunne, and do spread and open againe at the Sunne rising. Each floure hath in the middest thereof a yellow or browne crowne (like to a shauen Crowne) about the circuyt or compasse wherof, there are set many littell small yellow leaues. Whan the floures are vanisshed, there groweth in the places, from whence they fell, certayne round knops like vnto great buttons, cōpact of many crooked seedes growing togither into a knop like a button, each seede alone is croked like to a halfe Circle, or the new Moone. The roote is white and threddy.