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 June 2, 2024.

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Of the Arbute or Strawherie tree. Chap. liij.

❀ The Description.

THE Arbute is a small tree not muche bygger then a Quince tree, the stemme or body whereof is couered with a reddish barke which is rough and scaly. The young branches are smooth and redde, set full of long broade and thicke leaues, hackt rounde about like a sawe. The flowers be white, smal, & holow, and doo growe in clusters, after whiche commeth the fruite which is rounde, and of the fashion of a Strawherie, greene at the first, but afterwarde yellowishe, and at lastred when it is ripe.

¶ The Place.

The Arbute tree groweth in many places of Italy and other Countries wild: but it is vnkno∣in this Countrie.

❀ The Tyme.

The Arbute tree flowreth in Iuly and August: the fruit is ripe in September at the comming in of winter, after that it hath remai∣ned hanging vpon the tree by the space of a whole yere.

[illustration]
Arbutus.

❧ The Names.

This tree is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine, Arbutus, of some Vnedo, howbeit that name agreeth best with the fruite: in Frenche, Arbousier: in En∣glishe, the Arbute tree, and of some Strawberie tree.

The fruiteis called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or as some write, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in La∣tine, Vnedo, and Memaecylon: in Frenche, Arboses, or Arbousies.

❀ The Nature.

The fruite of the Arbute tree is of a colde temperature.

❀ The Danger.

The fruite of the Arbute tree, hurteth the stomacke and causeth headache.

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