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 Names.

[ 1] The first kinde of these herbes is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Phu: in Latine Valeriana, and Nardus syluestris, or Nardus rustica: in shoppes Valeriana domestica, or Va∣leriana hortēsis, of some in these dayes Marinella, Ge∣nicularis, and Herba benedicta: in Frenche Valeriane: in high Douche Grosz Baldrian: in base Almaigne, tāme or groote Valeriā, & of some S. Ioris cruyt, or Speercruyt, that is to say, Spearwurte, or Speare herbe, bycause his first leaues at their first comming vp, in making are lyke to the Iron or head of a Speare: in English Setwal, or Sydwall.

[ 2] The second kinde is called Valeriana syluestris, Phu syluestre, and Valeriana syluestris maior: in Frenche grande Valerian sauuage: in high Douch wilde Baldriā, Katzenwurtzel, Augenwurtz, Wendwurtz, & Den∣nenmarcke: in base Almaigne, wilde Valeriane: in English the great wilde Valerian.

[ 3] The third is a kinde of wilde Valerian, and therefore we do call it, Valeriane syluestris minor, that is to say, the small wilde Valerian, and also Phy paruum, and Valeriana minor.

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3. Phu paruum. Valeriana syluestris rainor. The smal wild Valerian.

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4. Phu Gręcū. Valeriana peregrina. Greekish Valerian.

[ 4] The fourth is called of the Herboristes of our time Phu Gręcum, & Valeriana Graeca, that is to say, Greekish, or Greke Valerian, & it may be wel called Vale∣riana peregrina, or Pseudophu, for this is no Valerian, but some other strange herbe, the which we cannot compare to any of the herbes described by Diosco∣rides, except it be the right Auricula muris, for the which it is taken of some.