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.

About this Item

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.
Rights/Permissions: This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions.
Subject terms: Herbals.; Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800.; Botany -- Pre-Linnean works.
Link to this Item: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20579.0001.001
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 June 2, 2024.

Pages

Of Grasse. Chap. xliiij.

❀ The Kindes.

A Man shal finde many sortes of grasse, one lyke another in stemme, and leaues, but not in the knoppes or eares: for one hath an eare like Barley, the other lyke Millet, another like Panick, another lyke Iuray, and such vnprofitable weedes that growe amongst corne. Some haue rough prickley eares, and some are soft and gentle, others are rough & mossie lyke fine downe or cotton, so that there are many sortes and kindes of grasse: whereof we will make no larger discourse, but of suche kindes onely, as haue bene vsed of the Auncient Physitions, and are particularly named Agrostis and Gramen.

❀ The Description.

THE grasse whereof we shall nowe speake, hath long rough leaues al∣most lyke the Cane, or Pole reede, but a great deale lesser, yet muche greater & broder then the leaues of that grasse which groweth cōmonly in medowes. The helme or stemmes are small, a foote or two long, with fiue or sixe ioyntes, at the vppermost of y^e stalkes there grow soft & gentle eares, almost like y^e bushy eares of y^e Cane or Pole reede, but smaller and slenderer. The roote is long and white, full of ioyntes, creeping hither & thither, & platted or wrapped one with another, & putting forth new springs in sundry places, & by the meanes hereof it doth multiplie and increase exceedinly in leaues and stalkes.

❀ The Place.

This grasse groweth not in medowes & lowe places, lyke the other, but in the corne feldes, & the borders therof, & is a noughty & hurtful weede to corne, the which the hus∣bandmen would not willingly haue in their lande, or feeldes: & therfore they take much payne to weede, and plucke vp the same.

❀ The Names.

This grasse is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Agrostis, bycause it groweth in the

[illustration]

Gramen. Couche grasse.

Page 504

corne feeldes, whiche are called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Agroi, therfore men may easily iudge, that the common grasse is not Agrostis.

This grasse is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine Gramen: in French Grame, or Dent au chien: in base Almaigne Ledtgras, and Knoopgras: and of the Coun∣trie or husbandmen Poeen: in Englishe Couche, and Couche grasse.

❀ The Nature.

Couche grasse is colde and drie of complexion.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] The roott of Couche grasse boyled in wine and dronken: doth swage and heale the gnawing paynes of the belly, prouoketh vrine, bringeth forth grauel, and is very profitable against the strangurie.

[ B] The same with his leaues newe brused, healeth greene woundes, and stop∣peth blood, if it be layde thereto.