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 Goose foote. Chap. iij.

❀ The Description

GOose soote groweth a foote and a halfe high, or two foote in length, he stalke is straight and full of branches, the leaues be brode and deepely cut rounde about, almost like to a Ganders foote, wherefore it is so named. The flowers be small & reddish. The seede groweth clustering lyke the Orache seede. The roote is full of hearie threddes.

❀ The Place.

This herbe groweth wilde, and in vn∣toyled places, alongst by the way sides, and is taken but as a weede or vnprofitable herbe.

❀ The Tyme.

You shal finde it flowring in Iune, and Iuly.

❀ The Names.

This herbe is called of the writers in our tyme Pes Anserinus: in high Douche, Genszfusz: in Frenche, Pied d'oyson: in base Almaigne, Gansenvoet, and of some Schweinsztod, & Seutod, that is to say▪ Swines bane, bycause the Hogges eating of this herbe, are immediatly baned, or ta∣ken with the Murren, so that within short space they die.

❀ The Nature.

This herbe is cold almost in the third degree.

[illustration]

Pes Anserinus.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] This herbe in operation is much like Morel or Nightshade and may be vsed outwardly to all thinges wherevnto Nightshade is required.