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 Priuet. Chap. xxv.

❀ The Description.

PRiuet is a base plante, very seldome growing vpright, but is rather like to a bushe or hedge then a tree, with many slender twigges and bran∣ches, and leaues somewhat long, of a darke greene colour, lyke the leaues of Periuincle, but somewhat larger and longer. At the toppes of the

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branches growe tuftes of white flowers, somwhat lyke the flowers of Eldren, after them come small beries, at the first greene, but afterwarde blacke.

❀ The Place.

Priuet groweth of his owne kinde in many places of Germanie and Englande, and is also planted in many gardens.

❀ The Time.

Priuet flowreth in May and Iune, and his fruit or beries are rype in September.

¶ The Names.

This plant is called in Greke (of Dios∣corides 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) who ioyneth 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 next to Cypros: in Latine of Plinie, Ligustrum: yet this is not that Ligustrum, whereof Virgil and Columella haue written, whereof we haue treated before, li. 3. Cap. 52. in English, Priuet, or Primprint: in Frenche, Troesne: in high Douch, Beinholtzlin, Mundholtz, Reinweiden: in base Almaigne, Reynwil∣ghen, Mondthout, and Keelcruyt.

¶ The Nature.

The leaues of Priuet are colde, dry, and astringent. The fruite hath a certayne warmenesse, but els in nature lyke to the leaues.

[illustration]

Phillyrea, Ligustrum.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] The leaues of Priuet do cure the swellinges, apostumations, and vlcers of the mouth, and the sores, and pustules, or blisters of the throte, if the mouth be well washed, and the throte gargled with the decoction or iuyce thereof.

[ B] The same leaues made into powder, are good to be strowed vppon hoate vlcers, and noughtie festering or consuming sores. And the fruite vsed in lyke maner, serueth to the same purposes.

Whatsoeuer is burned or scalded with fire, may be healed with the brothe of Priuet leaues. The flowers layd to the forehead, swage the payne thereof. The oyle heateth and softeneth the sinewes, if it be mingled with things that are of a hoate nature, as Turner writeth, lib 2. fol. 32.