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 the White Thorne / or Hawthorne tree. Chap. xxxi.

❀ The Description.

THE white Thorne most commonly groweth low and crooked, wrap∣ped and tangled as a hedge, sometimes it groweth vpright after the manner and fashion of a tree: and then it waxeth high as a Perrie, or wilde Peare tree, with a tronke or stemme of a conuenient bignesse, wrapped or couered in a barke of gray or ashe colour. The branches doo some∣times grow very long and vpright, especially when it groweth in hedges, and are set ful of long sharpe thornie prickles. The leaues be brode and deepe, cut in about the borders. The flowers be white & sweete smelling, in proportion lyke to the flowers of Cherrie trees, and Plomtrees: after the flowers commeth the fruite whiche is rounde and red. The roote is diuided into many wayes, and groweth deepe in the grounde.

¶ The Place.

White thorne groweth in hedges and the borders of feeldes, gardens, and woodes, and is very common in this Countrie.

❀ The Time.

It flowreth in May, and the fruite is rype in September.

❧ The Names.

This thorne is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine, Spina acuta, of some

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〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Pyrina, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Pytian∣the: it is Oxyacantha of Dioscori∣des, and the first kinde of Auicens Amyrberis: in Englishe, White Thorne, & Hawthorne: in French it is called Aube espine: in high Douche, Hagdorn: in base Al∣maigne, Haghedoren, and witte Haghedoren.

It seemeth also to be 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that is to say, Rubus canis, & Cani∣na sentis, whereof Theophrastus, writeth lib. 3. Cap. 18.

¶ The Nature.

The fruite of White Thorne is drie and astringent.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] The fruit of this Thorne stop∣peth the laske, and the flowers of women.

[ B] And as some of the later wri∣ters affirme, it is good against the grauell and the stone.

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Oxyacantha Dioscoridis.