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 May 8, 2024.

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❀ The Names.

This plant is called of the later writers in Latine, Grossularia rubra, Grossu

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laria transmarina, Ribes, and Ribesum: yet this is not right Ribes.

The fruite is also called of the later writers Groslulę transmarinae, and it shoulde seeme to be the fruite the whiche Galen lib. 7. de medicamentis secun∣dùm loca, calleth 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Vuae vrsi: in shoppes they cal it Ribes: in French, Groiselles d'outre mer: in high Douche, S. Iohans treuble, or Treublin, and S. Iohans beerlin: in base Almaigne, Besiekens ouer zea, and Aelbesiekens.

[ 1] The first kinde is called Grossulae rubrae, Ribes rubrum: in Englishe, Redde Gooseberies, Beyondsea Gooseberies, Bastard Corinthes, & common Ribes: in Frenche, Groiselles rouges: in base Almaigne, Roode Aelbesien, and of this sort onely they vse in shoppes, and meates.

[ 2] The second kinde is called Ribes nigrum: in English, Blacke Gooseberies, or blacke Ribes: in Frenche, Groiselles noires: in base Almaigne, Swerte Aelbe∣sien.

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