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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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.

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Of Reede Grasse. Chap. lv.

❀ The Description.

REede grasse hath long nar∣row leaues, two edged or sharpe on both sides, with a sharpe crest or backe, ray∣sed vp, so that they seeme almost triangled or three square. The stalkes growe amongst the leaues, to the height of two or three foote or more, and do beare about the vpper part of the stalkes rounde prickley knoppes, or boullettes, as bigge as a Nut. The roote is ful of hearie stringes.

❀ The Place.

It groweth in this Countrie in moyst medowes, & in the borders, or brinkes of ditches & riuers.

❀ The Tyme.

It bringeth foorth his boullettes, or prickley knoppes in August.

❀ The Names.

This herbe is called in base Almaigne Rietgras, and therefore some take it for a kinde of grasse which Dioscorides cal∣leth in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Calamagro∣stis: in Latine Gramen Arundinaceum: in Englishe, Reede grasse. With the which it hath no likenesse, and therefore it serueth better to be named Platanaria, and lykewise it is not lyke vnto Spar∣gamum, but it is more lyke that Butomon of Theophrastus, that likewise in Greeke is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

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Platanaria.

❀ The Nature.

It is of a colde and drie complexion.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] Some write, that the knoppes or rough buttons of this herbe boyled in wine, are good agaynst the bitinges of venemous beastes, if it be either dron∣ken, or the wounde be washed therewith.