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] THE tame Cornell tree, sometimes groweth vp handsomly, and waxeth meetely great lyke other meane trees: sometimes also it is but low, and groweth lyke to a shrub or hedge bush: as diuers other small trees doo. The wood or timber of this tree is very harde.

The flower is of a faynte yellowish colour. The fruite is very redde, and some∣what long almost lyke an Olyue, but smaller, with a long litle stone or kernell, therein closed like to the stone of an Olyue berie.

[ 2] The wilde Cornell tree groweth not vp lyke a tree, but remayneth lowe as a hedge plant, the timber of this tree both of the young twigges and old bran∣ches is likewise very harde and plyant: the shutes and scorges, are full of knottes or ioyutes and within they be full of pith, lyke the shutes of Elder. The leaues are very lyke to them of the tame or male Cornell tree. The flowers be white and doo growe in tuftes, after them ryse small rounde beries, whiche are greene at the first, but afterwarde blacke when they be ripe.