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 vile Nature and euill qualitie of this Herbe.

The Indian Gillofer is very dangerous, hurtfull, and venemous, both to man & beast, as I haue tried by experience, namely vpon a yong Catt, where∣vnto I haue giuen of these floures to eate, very finely pound with greene or fresh Cheese: wherevpon she blasted immediatly, and shortly after died. And I was moued to make this experience, by the occasion of a yong childe who had gathered of these floures & put them into his mouth, so that straight waies his mouth & lippes did swell exceedingly & within a day or two after, they became very sore and scabbed, as also it doth often happen to them, that put into their mouthes the pipes, or hollow stalkes of Hemlocke. Wherfore it is manifest that this herbe with his floure is very euil and venemous, and of complexion much like vnto Hemlocke, the whiche also may be partely perceyued by his foule and lothsome sauour, whiche is very strong and stinking, not muche differing from the rancke and noysom smell of Hemlocke.