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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585.
Publication: At London [i.e. Antwerp :: Printed by Henry Loë, sold] by my Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne,; 1578.
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Subject terms: Herbals.; Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800.; Botany -- Pre-Linnean works.
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Of Thymbra / or winter Sauorie. Chap. lxiij.

❀ The Description.

WInter Sauorie hath many slender wooddie stalkes, set full of smal narrow leaues. The floures be small, incar∣nate or white, growing in littell huskes alōgst the stalkes betwixte y^e leaues, & floureth by little & littell, from the lowest parte of the stalke e∣uen vp to the toppe of the branches, leauing after the floures be fallen a∣way, as it were a greene spikie eare or tufte, cōteyning the seede, whiche is very small. The roote is of wood∣dy substance.

❀ The Place.

This herbe groweth in certaine places of Fraunce, especially in Lan∣guedor, & other hoate countreys, in vntilled places. It is found in this countrey in the gardens of suche as haue pleasure in herbes.

❧ The Tyme.

It floureth in this countrey in Iuly & August, and somtimes later.

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Thymbra.

❀ The Names.

This herbe is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine Thymbra, & Cunila: in English Tymbra, & Winter Sauorie, also Pepper Hyssope: in French Thymbre, and Sarrietted Angliterre: of some Douch Herborists Tenderick. This is not Satureia, for Satureia is an herbe differing from Thymbra, as Columella and Plinie haue very well taught vs.

❀ The Nature.

Tymbra is hoate and dry like Tyme.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] Winter Sauorie is good and profitable to be vsed in meates, like Tyme, Sauorie, and common Hyssope.

[ B] It hath power and vertue like Tyme, being taken in the like sorte, as Dios∣corides sayth.