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.

[ 1] THe great Antirrhinon hath straight round stemmes, & full of branches, the leaues be of a darke greene, somewhat long and broade, not muche vnlike the leaues of Anagallis or Punpernell, alwayes two leaues growing one against an other, like the leaues of Anagallis. There groweth at the top of the stalke alongst the brāches certayne floures one aboue an other, somwhat long and broade before, after the fasshion of a frogs mouth, not muche vnlike the floures of Tode flaxe, but muche larger, and without tayles, of a faint yellowissh colour. After them comme long round huskes, the foremost part whereof are somwhat like to a Calfes snowte or Moosell, wher∣in the seede is conteyned.

There is also an other kinde of great Antirrhinum, whose leaues belong & narrow, almost like to the leaues of Tode flaxe, whiche beareth sometimes a redde floure, sometimes a faynt redde, and sometimes a white floure: else in all things like to the aboue saide.

[ 2] The small Antirrhinum his stalkes be small and tender, not very full of

branches, his leaues be long and narrow, betwixte whiche and the stalkes, growe the small red floures, like to the aforesayde floures, but a great deale smaller. Whan they are past, there riseth vp small rounde heades or knappes, with little hooles in them, like to a dead scull, within whiche is conteyned smal seede.