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 Description.

[ 1] THe white garden Succorie with the brode leaues, hath great, long, large, & soft, whitegeeene leaues, not much vnlike the leaues of some sorte of Letuce. The stalke is rounde set with the like leaues, whiche growe vp sodenly, bearing most commonly blewe flowers, and some∣times also white. After the flowers foloweth the seede, whiche is white. The roote is white and long, the which withereth and starueth away, the seede be∣ing once ripe.

[ 2] The second kind of garden Succorie hath long narrow leaues, sometimes creuished or slightly toothed about the edges. The stalke is round, the flowers blewe, lyke to the flowers of the aforesayde. The roote is white and long, full of sappe, and dieth not lightly, albeit it hath borne both his flowers and seede.

[ 3] The thirde kinde called wilde Endiue, hath long leaues of a sad greene co∣lour, and somewhat rough or hearie, the which be sometimes parted with red∣dish vaynes. The stalkes, flowers, & seede, are very much lyke to garden Suc∣corie,

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Intubum satiuum latifolium. White Succory.

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Intubum satiuum angustifolium. Garden Succorie.

and so is the roote, the which lasteth a long time, & doth not lightly perish.

[ 4] The fourth kind, which is the wild yellow Succorie, is also like to Succo∣rie in stalkes and leaues, the stalkes be a cubite long or more, full of branches. The leaues be long, almost like the leaues of wilde Endiue, but larger. The flowers be yellow, fashioned like the flowers of Dent de lyon, but smaller. The roote is of a foote long, full of white sap or iuyce, which commeth foorth whan it is hurt.