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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❀ The Names.

[ 1] Alcakengie is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine Ve∣sicaria, of Plinie Vesicula, of some Callion, in Shoppes Alkakengie: in French Alquequanges, and des Coquerelles: in high Douche Schlutten, Boberellen, Iu∣den Kirszen, Teuffels Kirsen, Iuden Hutlin, and Rot Nachtschad: in base Al∣maigne, Criecken van ouersee, That is to say, Beyondsea Cheries: in English it is called Nightshade, Alkakengie, and Winter Cheries.

[ 2] The other strange kinde is called of men of this time, Vesicaria peregrina, and Vesicaria nigra: in French Pois de merueilles: in high Douch Munchs copfflin, Schwarte Schlutten, and Welsch Schlutten: in base Almaigne Vremde Criecken van ouer zea, and Swerte Criecken van ouer zea.