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 Description.

THese apples haue rounde stalkes of a gray or ashe colour, and hearie: three or foure foote long full of branches. The leaues be great, broade, and long, spread abroade vpon euery side, and deepely cut, almost lyke the leaues of Aygremonie, but muche greater and whiter. The flowers are yellowishe, growing vpon short stemmes, fiue or sixe togither, and when they are fallen, there come in their places great flatte apples, bollen or by certayne

spaces bunched out, on the sides, and of colour sometimes red, sometimes white, and sometimes yellowe, lyke Orēges, or Mandrake apples, wher∣in is conteined the seede. Al the herbe is of a strange stinking sauour, and it must be sowen euery yere as the Cowcombers be.