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.

Of Marygolds. Chap. xiij.

❀ 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.

❀ The Place.

These floures do grow in euery garden where as they are sowē, and they do yearly spring vp a new of the fallen seede.

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Calendula.

❧ The Tyme.

They floure almost euery moneth in the yeare, but especially from May vntill winter.

❀ The Names.

They be now called in Latine Calendula, and of some Caltha, and Calthula: in English Marygoldes, and Ruddes: in Italian Fior rancio: in French du Soucy, and Sousie: in high Douch Ringelblumen: in base Almaigne Goutbloemen. (Pena calleth it in Latine Caltha poetarum, and Chrysanthemon.)

❀ The Nature.

The Marygolde in complexion is hoate and dry.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] The floures by them selues, or togither with their plante, boyled in wine & dronken, prouoketh the Menstruall fluxe.

[ B] The same with their herbe dryed, and strowed vpon quicke coles, draweth forth the secondyne or afterbirth, with the dead childe, the fume thereof being receyued at the conuenient place.

[ C] The distilled water of Marygoldes, put into the eyes, cureth the rednesse,

and inflammation of the same.

[ D] The conserue that is made of the floures of Marygoldes, taken in the mor∣ning fasting, cureth the trembling and shaking of the harte, it is also good to be vsed against the Plague, and corruption of the ayre.