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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Of Foxetayle. Chap. lxxix.

❀ The Description.

FOxetayle hath blades and helme almost lyke wheate, as Theophra∣stus writeth, but smaller and better, like the blades & stems of Couche grasse, at the top or end of the stemmes growe small soft hearie eares or knoppes, very like to Foxetayle.

❀ The Place.

Foxetayle groweth not in this Countrie: but in certayne places of Fraunce, in fieldes and alongst the sea coast.

❀ The Tyme.

This herbe flowreth in Iune and Iuly.

¶ The Names.

Theophrast calleth this herbe in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that is to say in Latine, Cauda vulpina: in Englishe, Foxetayle: in Frenche Queue de Renarde: in high Douche, Fuchs schuantz: in base Almaigne Vossen steert.

❀ The Nature and Vertues.

The Auncientes haue made no mention at all, of the nature, and vertues of this herbe.

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Alopecuros.