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.

❀ The Names.

This kinde of Poppie is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine Papauer cornutum, and of some Apothecaries that are ignorant Memitha, wherevnto it is nothing lyke: in Frenche Pauot cornu: in high Douche Gehornter Magsa∣men, and Geel Olmagen: in base Almagne Geelen Huel: in English Horned Poppie.

Some of the learned sort do thinke, that this herbe is a kinde of Papauer Corniculatum, that is to say, Horned Poppie, described by Dioscorides in his fourth booke. Some woulde haue it Papauer spumeum, described of the same Dioscorides in the same place. But if it may be lawfull for me to giue a iudge∣ment

aswel as the rest, it shalbe neither of those herbes: but rather that Hype∣coum of Dioscorides, named in Greke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 for all the signes and tokens do agree very well with the same.