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 Stone Liuerwort. Chap. lxx.

❀ The Description.

STone Liuerwort spreadeth it selfe abroade vpon the ground, hauing wrinckled, or crimpled leaues layde one vpon another as the scales of fishe, and are greene on the vpper part, and browne on that side which is next the ground: amongst the leaues there grow vp smal stemmes or twigges, in the toppes wherof are certayne knappes or thinges like starres. The rootes are like smal threddes, growing vnder the leaues, wherby it clea∣ueth, and sticketh fast vpon the ground, and vpon moyst or sweating rockes.

❀ The Place.

This herbe (if a man may so cal it) groweth in moyst groundes, and stonie places, and sha∣dowie, where as the Sonne shineth seldome.

❧ The Tyme.

It bringeth foorth his starres in Iune and Iuly.

¶ The Names.

This herbe is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in La∣tine Lichen: in Shoppes Hepatica: in French Hepatique: in high Almaigne Brunnenleber∣craut, or Steinlebercraut: in base Almaigne Steenleuercruyt, and Leuercruyt: in Englishe Liuerwurt and Stone Liuerwort.

❀ The Nature.

Liuerwort is colde and drie of complexion.

[illustration]

Lichen.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] The decoction of Liuerworte, swageth the inflammation of the liuer, & ope∣neth the stoppinges of the same, and is very good agaynst Feuer tertians, and all inflammations of blood.

[ B] This herbe (as Dioscorides and Plinie writeth) brused when it is yet greene, and layd vpon woundes, stoppeth the superfluous bleeding of the same and preserueth them both from inflammation and Apostemation.

[ C] The same doth also heale all foule scurffes and spreading scabbes, as the Pockes, and wilde fire, and taketh away the markes and scarres made with hoate irons, if it be pounde with hony and layde therevpon.

[ D] The same boyled in wine, and holden in the mouth, stoppeth the Catarrhes, that is, a distilling or falling downe of Reume, or water and flegme from the the brayne to the throte.