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 Serapions Turbith. Chap. xxxiij.

❀ The Description.

THis herbe hath long leaues, large, greene, playne, and shining lyke in fashion to the leaues of wade, amongst which cōmeth forth a straight rounde stalke, of the heyght of a foote and a halfe or there about, set with the lyke leaues but smaller, it parteth at the top into many bran∣ches, vpon the which grow faire flowers, blew before their opening, and when they are open they haue within a crowne of yellow, compassed about with small azured leaues, lyke to the flowers of Camomyll in figure. After when they fade they turne into a rough or downie white seede, the whiche flyeth away with the winde. The roote is long and thicke, and couered with a barke somwhat thicke also.

❀ The Place.

This herbe groweth alongst the sea coast, where as the tide and waues do ebbe and flowe, in suche sorte, that sometimes it is co∣uered with the Sea, and sometimes it is drie. And it is founde in aboundance in Zea∣lande.

❀ The Tyme.

This herbe flowreth in Iuly and Au∣gust.

❧ The Names.

Some cal it in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine Tripolium: in the Arabian speeche of Sera∣pio, Chap. C C C xxx. Turbith: but this is not the Turbith of Mesue or Auicenne. It hath no name in our vulgar speech, that I know, but that some call it blew Camomil or blew Dasies, the which name belongeth not pro∣perly vnto it, seing that it is not of the kinde of Camomil or Dasies: we may very well call it, Serapio his Turbith.

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Tripolium.

❀ The Nature.

The nature of Tripolium is hoate in the thirde degree.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] The quantitie of two dragmes of the roote of Tripolium taken with wine, driueth foorth by siege waterie humours: Moreouer, it is very profitable for suche as haue the Dropsie.

[ B] The same is very profitable mixte in medicines, that serue agaynst poy∣son.

[ C] The leaues of this herbe, as some writers do now affirme, haue a singuler vertue agaynst all woundes, so that they heale and close them vp incontinent, if the iuyce thereof be powred in, or if the brused leaues be layde vppon the woundes.