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 Columbyne. Chap. xvi.

❀ The Description.

COlumbyne hath great broade leaues, with ij. or iij. deepe cuts or gasshes in the leaues, like to the leaues of the great Celon∣dyne, but whiter (& in some kindes of a darke sage colour) but of no strong sent or sauour, neither yelding forth any such yellow iuyce, sappe, or liquor, whan it is brokē or brused, as the Celondyne doth. The stalkes be round, & playne or smoth, of ij. or iij. foote long, vpon which growe the floures, cōpact of two kindes of little leaues, wherof one sorte, are small & nar∣row, & the others growing with them ar hollow, w^t a long croked tayle like larkes Claw (& bending somwhat towards the proportiō of the necke of a Culuer). The floures are somtimes single, & somtimes dubble, & of colour somtimes blew, som∣times white, sometimes skie colour, som∣times red, somtimes speckled, & intermē∣gled with blew & white. After the vanis∣shing of the sayde floures, there commeth foorth iiij. or fiue sharpe huskes or cods, growing ioyntly togither, wherein is cō∣teyned a blacke (shining) seede.

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Aquilegia.

❀ The Place.

They sowe, and plante them here in gardens, and they do also grow in high woodes, and rockes, but not in this countrie.

❀ The Tyme.

They floure most commonly in May and Iune.

❀ The Names.

This floure is now called in Latine Aquilegia, or Aquileia, and of the later writers Columbina, vnknowen of the Auncients, howbeit some-late wryters make a question, whether it he Ponthos Theophrasti, siue Desiderium, after the interpretation of Gaza: it is called in English Columbine of the shape & propor∣tion of the leaues of the floures whiche do seeme to expresse the figure of a Doue, or Culuer: in French Ancoly, in high Douch Agley, and Ageley: in base Almaigne Akeley.

❀ The Nature.

Columbine is temperate in heate, and moysture.

❀ The Vertues.

This floure as Ruellius writeth, is not vsed in Medicine: howbeit some of the new wryters do affirme it to be good against the Iaundice, and sounding, and it openeth the wayes of the Liuer, and the people vse it against the inflam∣mation, and sores of the iawes and windepipe. These floures mengled with wheaten meale, make a good playster against scratches and gaules.