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 bastard Pelitory or Gartram. Chap. xix.

❀ The Description.

PElitory hath leaues muche lyke to fe∣nil, al finely cut or hackt. The flowers are yellow in y^e midle, set round about with little white leaues somewhat blew vnder, like y^e flowers of Camomil, or lyke the flowers of the great dasie. The roote is long and straight, somtimes as byg as a finger, hoate and burning the tongue.

❀ The Place.

This herbe is not founde growing of him selfe in this Countrie, but it is found planted in the gardens of certayne Her∣horistes.

❀ The Tyme.

Pelitory flowreth after May vntyl the end of somer, in which season the seede is rype.

❀ The Names.

This herbe is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine Saliuaris: in shops Pyrethrū, of some also in Greke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Frenche Pyrethre, or Pied d' Alexandre: in high Douch Bertrā. Albeit mine Author setteth foorth this herbe for Pyrethro, yet it is not aunswerable vnto Dioscorides Pyrethrum, or Saliuarem, wherfore I thinke we may wel cal it bastard Pelito∣ry or Bertram.

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Pyrethrum. Bartram.

❀ The Nature.

The roote of Pyrethre is hoate and dry in the thirde degree.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] The roote of Pelitory taken with hony, is good agaynst the falling sicknes, the Apoplexie, the long and olde diseases of the head, and against all colde dis∣eases of the brayne.

[ B] The same holden in the mouth & chewed, draweth foorth great quantitie of waterish fleme.

[ C] The same sodden in vineger, & kept warme in the mouth, doth mitigate and alay the tooth ache.

[ D] The Oyle wherein Pellitory hath ben boyled, is good to annoynt the body to cause a man swet, and is excellent good for any place of the body that is bru∣sed and shaken for colde, and for members that are benummed or foundered: and for such as are striken with the Palsie.