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 Brookelime. Chap. xxij.

❀ The Description.

BRookelime hath rounde fat stalkes, full of branches, & vppon the same fat thicke leaues: the which being brused do yeelde a good sauour. At the toppe of the stalkes and branches growe many fayre blewe flowers, not much vnlike the flowers of blewe Pimpernel, The roote is white & ful of hearie stringes.

❀ The Place.

This herbe groweth in y^e borders & brinkes of ditches and pooles, and sometimes also by running streames, and brookes harde by the water, so that sometimes it is ouerflowen and drenched in the same.

❀ The Tyme.

Brookelime flowreth in May, and Iune.

❧ The Names.

This herbe is called now in these dayes Ana∣gallis aquatica, and Becabunga, and of some it is taken for that herbe that of Dioscorides is na∣med in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine, Cepaea: and it

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Anagallis Aquatica.

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seemeth to be a kinde of Soum, of the whiche is written by Cratenas: in high Douche, Wasserpunghen, Bachpunghe, or Punghen: in base Almaigne, Wa∣terpunghen: in English, Brookelyme.

❀ The Nature.

This herbe is hoate almost in the seconde degree.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] Brookelime leaues dronken in wine do helpe the strangullion, & the inward scabbes of the bladder, especially if it be taken with the roote of Asparagus or Sperage.

[ B] They be also eaten with oyle and vineger, and are good for them that are troubled with the strangurie, and stone.