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.

[ 1] THE common Alcakengie, beareth slender stalkes, leaues lyke Petie Morel, but muche larger and greater. The flowers be pale, greater, but not so white as the flowers of Nightshade or Petimorel, & whan they perish, they bring foorth rounde balles, or blasted bladders, hol∣low, close, greene at the beginning, but afterward red: in the sayd bladders be rounde red beries, full of seede, flat, and yellowish. The roote is smal, creeping along, and casting foorth new euery yere, and in sundry places it putteth foorth newe shutes, and tender stalkes.

[ 2] Bysides this there is founde a strange kinde, which is also taken for Alca∣kengie, the which hath smal and tender stalkes, the leaues be somewhat long, creuised & deepely cut round about. The flowers be white as snowe, bringing foorth also bladders, or rounde blasted balles, at the beginning greene, but af∣terwarde blackishe: wherein groweth blacke beries, about the quantitie of a pease. The roote is small and threddie.

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Vesicaria vulgaris. Alcakengie or winter Cherie.

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Vesicaria peregrina. Blacke winter Cherie.