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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❀ The Names.

[ 1] The first plant is called of the Brabanders Gagel, & is of some Apothecaries called Myrtus, and the seede therof Myrtilli: notwithstanding, it is not Myrtus. Wherefore it is called of some of the later writers, Pseudomyrsine, and Myrtus Brabantica, and in some places of Almaigne they cal it Altsein, and Borst, some take it to be 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Oleagnus, of Theophrastus, wherevnto it is not very muche lyke, but it seemeth to be that kinde of wilde Rhus, whiche Plinie spea∣keth of in the xxiiij. Chapter of the xj. booke of his excellent worke, called the Historie of Nature.

[ 2] Hedge Hysope is called in high Douche, Heyden Ysop, Felde Ysop: in base Almaigne, Heyden Hysope, bycause it groweth in Hedges, and wilde places. Some do call it in Latine, Gratia Dei, howbeit it is nothing lyke, Gratia Dei, or Gratiola, whiche is a kinde of the lesse Centaurie, set foorth in the thirde part of this Historie Chap. xlij. It seemeth to be Selago Plinij, Valerius Cordus calleth it Helian themum.