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 Names.

This herbe is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine Typha, and of the writers in

these dayes Typha palustris, as a difference from the other Typha, called Typha cerealis, whiche is a kinde of grayne or corne, the whiche hath bene already de∣scribed in the fourth Chap. of this booke, of some it is also called Typha aqua∣tica, and Cestrum morionis. in Frenche Marteau, Masses: in high Douche Nar∣renkowen, and Lies; knospen: in base Almaigne, Lisch Dodden, and Dousen. Turner calleth it in Englishe, Reede Mace, and Cattes tayle: to the which we may ioyne others, as Water Torche, Marche Betill, or Pestill, and Dunche downe, bycause the downe of this herbe will cause one to be deafe, if it happen to fall into the eares, as Matthiolus writeth. The leaues are called, Matte reede, bycause they make mattes therewith, to the whiche they onely serue when it bringeth foorth neither stalkes nor cattes tayle. like as this plant yeel∣deth his cattes tayles, so likewise be the leaues not necessarie to make any thing thereof.