❀ The Description.
[ 1] THe tame white Mustarde hath great rough leaues, at the first not much vnlike ye leaues of Turnep, but after the first leaues there folowe other yt are smaller & more iagged, growing vpon the stalkes whiche hearie &
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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- 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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- Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585.
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- 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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- Herbals.
- Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800.
- Botany -- Pre-Linnean works.
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"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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three or foure foote long, & diuideth it self into many brāches alongest yt which grow yellowish flowers, & after them long hearie huskes or coddes, wherin is the sede which is round & pale, greater then Rape sede, in taste sharpe & hoate.
[ 2] The seconde kinde of tame Mustarde with the browne seede, whiche is the blacke Mustarde & common Senuy, is like to the aforesayd in leaues, sralkes and growing. The flowers be yellow. The sede is browne, smaller then Rape seede, and in taste also sharpe and hoate.
[ 3] The wilde kind hath great large leaues, very much iagged and rough with stalkes like the other, but it groweth not so high. The flowers be of a pale yel∣low, fashioned like a crosse, after which commeth the seede which is reddish, en∣closed in long round huskes.