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] LYcoryse hath straight twigges and branches, of three or foure foote high, set with brownishe leaues, made of many smal leaues standing neare togither alongst the stemmes, one directly against another, lyke the leaues of y^e Masticke tree, & Tragium or bastarde Dyctam, the flowers growe vpon short stemmes, betwixt the leaues and the branches, clustering togither lyke to small pellettes or balles, the which being past, there foloweth rounde rough prickley heades, made of diuers rough huskes cluste∣red, or set thicke togither, in whiche is conteyned a flat seede. The roote is long and straight, yellow within and browne without, not much vnlyke the fashion of the roote of Gentian, but sweete in taste.

There is another kinde of Licoryse, whose stalkes and leaues be like to the aforesayde: but the flowers and coddes thereof growe not so thicke clustering

togither in round heades or knoppes, but they grow togither lyke the flowers of Spike vpon small footestemmes, or lyke the flowers of Galega, or that kind of wilde Fetche, whiche some iudge to be Onobrychis, or Medica Ruellij, in Frenche, Sainct Foin. The rootes of this Lycorise grow not straight, but trauer∣sing ouerthwart with many branches, of a brownishe colour without, and yel∣lowe within, in taste sweete, yea sweeter then the aforesayde.