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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585.
Publication: At London [i.e. Antwerp :: Printed by Henry Loë, sold] by my Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde at the signe of the Swanne,; 1578.
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Subject terms: Herbals.; Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800.; Botany -- Pre-Linnean works.
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Of Spereworte or Baneworte. Chap. lxxvi.

❀ The Description.

THis herbe hath reddish stalkes, holow, ful of knees or ioyntes, vpon the whiche growe long narrowe leaues, almost lyke to the Wythie leaues, but yet longer, and a litle snipt or toothed round about, espe∣cially those that growe lowest. The flowers are yellowe as golde, somwhat rough in the middle, in fashion and color altogither like the flowers of golden Crowfoote. Those being past, it hath knops or heades like the seedie knoppes of golden Crowfoote. The roote is ful of threddes or laces.

❀ The Place.

It groweth in moyst medowes, waterie places, and standing puddelles.

❀ The Tyme.

It flowreth in May, and soone after yeeldeth his seede.

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❀ The Names.

This herbe is nowe called in Latine Flammula, that is to say, Flame, or the fierie herbe, bycause it is very hoate, and burning like fire. The Douchemen call it E∣gelcoolen, bycause y^e sheepe that haue eaten of this herbe, haue the disease whiche they call Egel, that is to say, the inflammation and blistering of the liuer. I know not by what name the olde writers haue called this herbe, ex∣cept this be that herbe, whiche Octauius Horatianus doth name Cleoma, the whiche groweth also in moyst places, and is of a very hoate temperament or complexion. It is called in some places of Englande Sperworte, it may be also called Banewort.

¶ The Nature and operation.

It is hoate and drie in the fourth degree, and burneth, and blistereth the body, as Ranunculus, vnto which it is partly lyke in complexion and operation.

❧ The Danger.

This herbe is hurtful both vnto man and beast: for it slayeth both the one and the other. The sheepe whiche do happen to eate of it, are vexed with a maruelous inflam∣mation, and they dye therewith, bycause their liuers are inflamed and consumed.

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Flammula.