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 Rough Bindeweede. Chap. lv.

❀ The Description.

ROugh or prikeley Binde∣weede hath tender stalkes and branches, garnished, or set round about, with many sharpe prickes or thornes, winding and wrappyng it selfe about trees, hedges and bushes lyke to the other kindes of Bindeweede, taking holde with their clasping branches vppon euery thing standing agaynst it. The leaues be very well lyke Iuye, but they are longer and sharper at the poynt. The flowers are white, and for his fruite, it hath round beries clustering togither lyke grapes, the whiche are red when they be ripe. The roote is thicke and harde.

❀ The Place.

Rough Bindeweede, as witnesseth Plinie, groweth in vntoyled waterie places, and in lowe and shadowie val∣leyes. It is not founde in this Countrie, but in the gardens of some diligent Her∣boristes.

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Smilaxaspera.

❀ The Tyme.

Rough Bindeweede flowreth in the spring time, but in hoate Countries it flowreth agayne in Autumne.

¶ The Names.

This Bindeweede is called in Greke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine Smilaxaspera, of some Volubilis acuta, or Pungens: in Frenche Smilax aspre, or Li∣set piquant: in high Douch Stechend windt: in base Almaigne Stekēde winde. And the roote of this plant is the Zarsa parella, or as some do write Sparta paril∣la. The whiche some of our time commende very muche for diuers diseases, al∣beit very small effecte commeth thereof.

❀ The Nature.

This herbe is hoate and drye.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] The leaues and fruite of sharpe Windeweede, are very profitable against all venome and poyson, and it doth not serue onely for the venome receiued be∣forehande, but also agaynst all poyson taken after that a man hath eaten of the leaues or fruite of this plant. In somuch that whosoeuer eateth hereof dayly, no venome may hurt him.

[ B] Men do also write of this herbe, that if ye geue to a childe newly borne, the iuyce of this herbe, that no venom shall after hurt him.