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.
Cite this Item: "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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20579.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.

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Of Tares. Chap. xxviij.

❀ The Description.

THe Tare hath long, tender, square stalkes, longer and higher then the stalkes of the lentil, growing almost as high as the wheat or corne, or the other plantes whereamongst it groweth. The leaues be smal and tender (triangled like a scuchion) somwhat round, growing alwaies two togi∣ther, one against another at the ioyntes, betwixt the said leaues there grow vp clasping tendrels, & other smal stems or shutes, whervpon growe flowers, of a yellowish colour. The flowers past there rise coddes somewhat large, & longer then the coddes or huskes of the Lentiles, in whiche is conteyned fiue or sixe blacke seedes, harde, flat, and shining, lesser then the seedes of lentiles.

¶ The Place.

The Tare groweth in feeldes, & is found growing in this Countrie, in fertil groundes amongst wheat & Rye.

❀ The Tyme.

In this Countrie it flowreth in May, and in Iune and Iuly the seede with the coddes is ripe.

¶ The Names.

This kinde of Pulse is called in Greke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine Aphaca: in English,

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Tares: vnknowen in shoppes, this is the Aphace of Dioscorides & Galen: for it should seeme, that the Vetche is the Aphace of Theophrastus.

❀ The Nature.

The Tare is temperate in heate, & of like nature to the Lentil: but drier.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] The Tare seede is of a restringent vertue like y^e Lentil, but more astrin∣gent, for it stoppeth the fluxe of the belly, and drieth vp the moysture of the stomacke.

[ B] The Tare in vertue is lyke to the Lentil.

[ C] Men in tyme past dyd vse to eate this pulse (as witnesseth Galen) ne∣uerthelesse it is harder of concoction or digestion, then the Lentil.

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Aphaca.