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 first kinde of Thlaspi hath long narrowe leaues. The stemmes be hard and pliant or tough, of a foote and a halfe long, vpon which grow litle branches bringing foorth smal white flowers, and afterward flat huskes and round, with a certayne clouen brim, or edge all aboue at the vpmost part of eache huske, which chappe or clift, causeth the huske to resemble the hart of a man, within the sayde huskes is founde small seede the whiche is rounde, eger, and burning the mouth, and in the ende it tasteth and smacketh of garlike or onyons, and is of a brownish colour.

[ 2] The seconde kinde hath long leaues and meetely large, longer and broader then the first, & iagged or cut about the edges. The stalkes be round of a foote long diuided into sundry smal branches, vpon which grow smal huskes, almost lyke the seede of Shepheardes pouche, within which huskes is likewise found a sharpe biting seede.

[ 3] The thirde kinde of Thlaspi hath smaller stalkes and leaues then the afore∣said and hath more smal slender branches, vpon which grow flowers and seede lyke to the other, but altogither smaller.

[ 4] The fourth kinde hath long, small, rough, white greene leaues, the stalkes be of a wooddy substance, round and tough or pliant, vpō the same grow smal

white flowers, the whiche past, it brin∣geth foorth broade huskes or seede ves∣sels, hauing a brownishe kinde of seede, very hoate in taste lyke to the seede of Cressis.