Table of Contents
Introduction
8 pages
Of Medow-Grasse
THere be sundry and infinite kindes of Grasses not mentioned by the Antients, either as unnecessarie to be set downe, or unknowne to them…
Of Couch-Grasse or Dogs-Grasse
The Description. (dagger)1 THe common or best known dogs grasse or Couch-grasse hath long leaves of a whitish greene colour: the stalke is…
Of Cotton-Grasse
The Description. 1 THis strange Cotton-Grasse doth rather resemble grasse than rushes, and may indifferently be taken for either, for that…
Of Reeds
The Kindes.
Of Sugar-Cane
The Description. 1 SUgar Cane is a pleasant and profitable Reed, having long stalkes seven or eight foot high, joynted or kneed like unto…
Of Paper Reed
PAper Reed hath many large flaggie leaves somewhat triangular and smooth, not much unlike those of Cats-taile, rising immediately from a…
Of Burre-Reed
The Description. 1 THe first of these plants hath long leaves, which are double edged, or sharpe on both sides, with a sharpe crest in the…
Of Cats-Taile
The Description.
Of Stitch-Wort
The Description.
Of the Floure De-Luce
The Kindes.
Of Ginger
The Description.
Of Corne
THus far have I discoursed upon Grasses, Rushes, Spartum, Flags, and Floure de-luces: my next labor is to set downe for your better…
Of Otes
The Description. 1 AVena Vesca, common Otes, is called Vesca, a Vescendo, because it is used in many countries to make sundry sorts of…
Of Turkie Corne
The Place.
Of the English Jacinth, or Hare - Bells
The Description. 1 THe blew Hare-bells or English Jacinth is very common throughout all England. It hath long narrow leaves leaning towards…
Of Two Feigned Plants
The Description. 1 Have thought it convenient to conclude the historie of the Hyacinths with these two bulbous Plants, received by…
Of Daffodils
The Description. 1 THe first of the Daffodils is that with the purple crowne or circle, having small narrow leaves, thicke, fat, and full…
Of Tulipa, or the Dalmatian Cap
The Kindes.
Of Turkie or Ginny - Hen Floure
The Description. 1 THe Checquered Daffodill, or Ginny-hen Floure, hath small narrow grassie leaves; among which there riseth up a stalke…
Of True Saffron, and the Wilde or Spring Saffron
The Description.
Of Medow Saffron
The Kindes.
Of Star of Bethlem
The Kindes.
Of Onions
The Kindes.
Of White Lillies
The Kindes.
Of Red Lillies
The Kindes.
Of Mountaine Lillies
The Description. 1 THe great mountain Lilly hath a cloved bulb or scaly root like those of the red Lilly, yellow of colour, very small in…
Of the Persian Lilly
The Description.
Of the Crowne Imperiall
The Description.
Of Fox Stones
The Kindes.
Of Birdsnest
The Description. 1 BIrds nest hath many tangling roots platted or crossed one over another very intricately, which resembleth a Crows nest…
Of Turneps
The Kindes.
Of Tarragon
The Description.
Of Indian Cresses
The Description.
Of Wilde Water-Cresses or Cuckow-Floures
The Description. 1 THe first of the Cuckow flours hath leaves at his springing up somwhat round, & those that spring afterward grow jagged…
Of Shepheards Purse
The Description. 1 The leaves of Shepheards purse grow up at the first long, gashed in the edges like those of Rocket, spred upon the…
Of Groundsell
The Description 1 THe stalke of Groundsell is round, chamfered and divided into many branches. The leaves be green, long, and cut in the…
Of Saint James His Wort
The Kindes.
Of Dandelion
The Description. 1 THe hearbe which is commonly called Dandelion doth send forth from the root long leaves deeply cut and gashed in the…
Of Lettuce
The Kindes.
Of Coleworts
The Description. 1 THe Garden Colewort hath many great broad leaves of a deepe blacke greene colour, mixed with ribs and lines of reddish…
Of Beets
The Description. 1 THe common white Beet hath great broad leaves, smooth, and plain: from which rise thicke crested or chamfered stalks…
Of Floure-Gentle
The Kindes.
Of Stinking Orach
The Description.
Of Scorpion Grasse
The Description. 1 SCorpion grasse hath many smooth, plaine, even leaves, of a darke greene colour; stalkes small, feeble and weake…
Of Sleepy Nightshade
The Description.
Of the Marvell of the World
The Description.
Of Madde Apples
The Description.
Of Apples of Love
The Description.
Of Thornie Apples
The Description. 1 THe stalkes of Thorny-apples are oftentimes above a cubit and a halfe high, seldome higher, an inch thicke, upright and…
Of Bitter-Sweet, or Wooddy Nightshade
The Description.
Of Mandrake
The Description.
Of Henbane
The Description. 1 THe common'blacke Henbane hath great and soft stalkes, leaves very broad, soft, and woolly, somewhat jagged, especially…
Of Yellow Henbane, or English Tabaco
The Description.
Of Tabaco, or Henbane of Peru
3 pages
Of Corne-Rose or Wilde Poppy
The Description.
Of Winde-Floures
The Kindes.
Of Water-Docke
2 pages
Of One-Berry, or Herbe True-Love, and Moone-Wort
The Description. 1 HErbe Paris riseth up with one smal tender stalke two hands high; at the very top whereof come forth foure leaves…
Of Lilly in the Valley, or May Lilly
The Description. 1 THe Convall Lilly, or Lilly of the Vally, hath many leaves like the smallest leaves of Water Plantaine; among which…
Of Sea Lavander
The Description. 1 THere hath beene among writers from time to time great contention about this plant Limonium, no one Author agreeing with…
Of Serapia's Turbith, or Sea Star-Wort
The Description. 1 TRipolium hath long and large leaves somewhat hollow or furrowed, of a shining green colour declining to blewnesse, like…
Of Land Plantaine
The Description. 1 AS the Greeks have called some kinds of herbs Serpents tongue, Dogs tongue, and Ox tongue; so have they termed a kinde…
Of Golden Rod
The Description. 1 GOlden Rod hath long broad leaves somewhat hoary and sharpe pointed; among which rise up browne stalkes two foot high…
Of Neesing Root or Neesewort
The Description. 1 THe first kinde of white Hellebor hath leaves like unto great Gentian, but much broader, and not unlike the leaves of…
Of Our Ladies Slipper
The Description. 1 OUr Ladies Shoo or Slipper hath a thicke knobbed root, with certain markes or notes upon the same, such as the roots of…
Of Bell-Floures
The Description. 1 COventry-Bells have broad leaves rough and hairy, not unlike to those of the Golden Buglosse, of a swart greene colour…
Of White Sattin Floure
The Description. 1 BOlbonac or the Sattin floure hath hard and round stalks, dividing themselves into many other small branches, beset with…
Of Willow-Herbe, or Loose-Strife
The Description. 1 THe first kinde of Willow-herbe hath long and narrow leaves of a grayish greene colour, in shape like the Willow or…
Of Barren-Woort
The Description.
Of Starre-Wort
The Description. 1 THe first kind of Aster or Inguinalis hath large broad leaves like Verbascum Salvifolium or the great Conyza; amongst…
Of Woad
The Description. 1 GLastum or garden Woad hath long leaves of a blewish green colour. The stalk growes two cubits high, set about with a…
Of Spurge
The Description. 1 THe first kinde of Sea Spurge riseth forth of the sands, or baich of the sea, with sundry reddish stems or stalkes…
Of Navelwoort, or Penniwoort of the Wall
The Description. 1 THe great Navelwoort hath round and thicke leaves, somewhat bluntly indented about the edges, and somewhat hollow in the…
Of Sampier
The Description. 1 ROcke Sampier hath many fat and thicke leaves somwhat like those of the lesser Purslane, of a spicie taste, with a…
Of Glasse Saltwort
The Description. 1 GLasseworth hath many grosse thicke and round stalks a foot high, full of fat and thicke sprigs, set with many knots or…
Of S. Johns Wort
The Description.
Of Calves Snout, or Snapdragon
The Description. 1 THe purple Snapdragon hath great and brittle stalks, which divideth it selfe into many fragile branches, whereupon do…
Of Garden Flaxe
The Description.
Of Milkewort
The Description. 1 THere have been many plants neerely resembling Polygala, and yet not the same indeed, which doth verifie the Latine…
Of Wilde Time
The Description. 1 BOth Dioscorides and Pliny make two kindes of Serpillum, that is, of creeping or wilde Time; whereof the first is our…
Of Hyssope
The Description. 1 DIoscorides that gave so many rules for the knowledge of simples, hath left Hyssope altogether without description, as…
Of Lavander Spike
The Description. 1 LAvander Spike hath many stiffe branches of a wooddy substance, growing up in the manner of a shrub, set with many long…
Of Fleawort
The Description. 1 PSyllium, or the common Fleawort, hath many round and tender branches, set full of long and narrow leaves somewhat…
Of Clove Gillofloures
The Kindes.
Of Pinks, or Wilde Gillofloures
The Description. 1 THe double purple Pinke hath manie grassie leaves set upon small joynted stalkes by couples, one opposite against…
Of Sweet Saint Johns and Sweet Williams
The Description. 1 SWeet Johns have round stalkes as have the Gillofloures, (whereof they are a kinde) a cubit high, whereupon doe grow…
Of Thrift, or Our Ladies Cushion
The Description. 1 THrift is also a kinde of Gillofloure, by Dodonaeus reckoned among grasses, which brings forth leaves in great tufts…
Of Sneesewoort
The Description. 1 THe small Sneese-woort hath many round and brittle branches, beset with long & narrow leaves, hackt about the edges like…
Of Pimpernell
The Description.
Of Herbe Two-Pence
The Description. 1 HErbe Two-pence hath a smal and tender root, spreding and dispersing it selfe far within the ground, from which rise up…
Of Bugle or Middle Comfrey
The Description. 1 BUgula spreadeth and creepeth along the ground like Monywort: the leaves be long, fat, and oleous, and of a browne…
Of Selfe-Heale
The Description. 1 PRunell or Brunell hath square hairie stalks of a foot high, beset with long hairy and sharp pointed leaves, and at the…
Of Little Daisies
The Description. 1 THe Daisie bringeth forth many leaves from a threddy root, smooth, fat, long, and somwhat round withall, very sleightly…
Of Mouse-Eare
The Description. 1 THe great Mouse-eare hath great and large leaves, thicke, and full of substance: the stalkes and leaves bee hoary and…
Of Cotton-Weed or Cud-Weed
The Description. 1 ENglish Cudweed hath sundry slender and upright stalks divided into many branches, and groweth as high as common…
Of Golden Moth-Wort, or Cudweed
The Description.
Of Fetherfew
The Description. 1 FEverfew bringeth forth many little round stalkes, divided into certaine branches. The leaves are tender, diversly torne…
Of Eye-Bright
The Description.
Of Wilde Marjerome
The Description. 1 BAstard Marjerome of Candy hath many threddy roots; from which rise up divers weake and feeble branches trailing upon…
Of Pennie Royall, or Pudding Grasse
The Description.
Of Nep or Cat-Mint
The Description. 1 CAt-Mint or Nep growes high, it brings forth stalks above a cubit long, covered, chamfered, and full of branches: the…
Of Horse-Mint or Water-Mint
The Description. 1 WAter Mint is a kinde of wilde Mint like to garden Mint: the leaves thereof are round, the stalkes cornered, both the…
Of Bawme
The Description.
Of Archangell or Dead Nettle
The Description.
Of Stinging Nettle
The Description.
Of Vervaine
The Description.
Of Scabious
The Description.
Of Divels Bit
The Description.
Of the Blew-Bottle or Corne-Floure
The Description.
Of Goats Beard, or Go to Bed at Noone
The Description.
Of Marigolds
The Description. 1 THe greatest double Marigold hath many large, fat, broad leaves, springing immediately from a fibrous or threddy root…
Of African Marigold
The Description. 1 THe common Africane, or as they vulgarly terme it French Marigold, hath small weake and tender branches trailing upon…
Of the Floure of the Sun, or the Marigold of Peru
The Description. 1 THe Indian Sun, or the golden floure of Peru, is a plant of such stature and talnesse, that in one summer, beeing sowne…
Of Jerusalem Artichoke
ONe may wel by the English name of this plant perceive, that those that vulgarly give names to plants, have little either judgement or…
Of Leopards Bane
The Description. 1 OF this plant Doronicum, there be sundry kindes. Dodonaeus unproperly calleth it Aconitum Pardalianches, which hath…
Of Mullein
The Description. 1 THe male Mullein or Higtaper hath broad leaves, very soft, whitish and downy; in the midst of which riseth up a stalk…
Of Cowslips
The Description. 1 THose herbs which at this day are called Primroses, Cowslips, and Oxlips, are reckoned among the kindes of Mulleins…
Of Beares Eares, or Mountaine Cowslips
The Kindes.
Of Fox-Gloves
The Description. 1 FOx-glove with the purple floure is most common; the leaves whereof are long, nicked in the edges, of a light greene, in…
Of Baccharis Out of Dioscorides
The Description. 1 ABout this plant Baccharis there hath beene great contention amongst the new Writers; Matthiolus and Dodonaeus have…
Of Dittany
The Description. 1 DIttanie of Crete now called Candie (as Dioscorides saith) is a hot and sharpe hearbe, much like unto Penni-Royall…
Of Borage
The Description. 1 BOrage hath broad leaves, rough, lying flat upon the ground, of a blacke or swart green colour: among which riseth up a…
Of Alkanet or Wilde Buglosse
The Description.
Of Colts-Foot, or Horse-Foot
The Description. 1 TUssilago or Fole-foot hath many white and long creeping roots, somewhat fat; from which rise up naked stalkes (in the…
Of Frogge-Bit
The Description.
Of Water Saligot, Water Caltrops, or Water Nuts
The Description. 1 WAter Caltrops have long slender stalks growing up and rising from the bottom of the water, and mounting above the same…
Of Ducks Meat
The Description.
Of Water Crow-Foot
The Description.
Of Cuckow Pint, or Wake-Robin
The Description.
Of Sow-Bread
The Description.
Of Birthwoorts
The Description.
Of Violets
The Kindes.
Of Ground-Ivy, or Ale-Hoofe
The Description.
Of Ivy
The Description.
Of Rough Binde-Weed
2 pages
Of Scammonie, or Purging Bindweed
The Description.
Of the Manured Vine
3 pages
Of Hops
The Description.
Of Travellers- Joy
The Description.
Of Wood-Binde, or Hony-Suckle
The Description.
Of Indian Swallow-Woort
The Description.
Of Solomons Seale
The Description.
Of Cucumbers
The Description. 1 THe Cucumber creepes alongst upon the ground all about, with long rough branches; whereupon doe grow broad rough leaves…
Of Potato's
The Description.
Of Potato's of Virginia
The Description.
Of the Garden Mallow Called Hollyhocke
The Description. 1 THe tame or garden Mallow bringeth forth broad round leaves of a whitish greene colour, rough, and greater than those of…
Of Cranes-Bill
The Description.
Of Crow-Feet
The Kindes.
Of Wolfes-Bane
The Kindes.
Of Yellow Wolfes-Bane
The Description.
Of Other Wolfes-Banes and Monkes Hoods
The Description. 1 HElmet-floure, or the great Monkes-hood, beareth very faire and goodly blew floures in shape like an Helmet; which are…
Of Blacke Hellebore
The Description. 1 THis plant hath thicke and fat leaves of a deep green colour, the upper part whereof is somewhat bluntly nicked or…
Of Peionie
The Description. 1 PEionie (being the male, called Poeonia mas: in English, Male Peiony) hath thicke red stalkes a cubit long: the leaves…
Of Straw-Berries
The Kindes.
Of Herbe Gerard
The Description.
Of Clownes Wound-Wort, or All-Heale
The Description.
Of Skirrets
The Description.
Of Fennell
The Description. 1 THe Fennell, called in Latine, Faeniculum, is so well knowne amongst us, that it were but lost labour to describe the…
Of Chervill
The Description.
Of Mede-Sweet, or Queene of the Medowes
The Description.
Of Earth-Nut, Earth Chestnut, or Kippernut
The Description.
Of the Great Celandine or Swallow-Wort
The Description.
Of Valerian, or Setwall
The Description.
Of Larks Heele or Larks Claw
The Description.
Of Gith, or Nigella
The Description.
Of Cockle
The Description.
Of Columbine
The Description.
Of Mugwort
The Description.
Of Sperage or Asparagus
The Description.
Of Madder
The Kindes.
Of Thistles
The Kindes.
Of Golden Thistle
The Description. 1 THe stalkes of Golden Thistle rise up forthwith from the root, being many, round, and branched. The leaves are long, of…
Of Sea Holly
The Description. 1 SEa Holly hath broad leaves almost like to Mallow leaves, but cornered in the edges, and set round about with hard…
Of Teasels
The Description. 1 GArden Teasell is also of the number of the Thistles; it bringeth forth a stalke that is straight, very long, jointed…
Of Three Leafed Grasse or Medow Trefoile
The Description. 1 MEdow Trefoile bringeth forth stalkes a cubit long, round and something hairy, the greater part of which creepeth upon…
Of Wood Sorrell, or Stubwort
The Description. 1 OXys Pliniana, or Trifolium acetosum, being a kinde of three leafed grasse, is a low and base herbe without stalke; the…
Of Some Pulses
The Description.
Of Rue, or Herbe Grace
The Description.
Of Roses
2 pages
Of the Wilde Roses
The Description. 1 THe sweet Brier doth oftentimes grow higher than all the kindes of Roses; the shoots of it are hard, thicke, and wooddy…
Of the Bramble or Blacke-Berry Bush
The Description. 1 THe common Bramble bringeth forth slender branches, long, tough, easily bowed, ramping among hedges and whatsoever…
Of Dwarfe Kindes of Cistus
The Description. 1 THe English dwarfe Cistus, called of Lobel, Panax Chironium (but there is another Panax of Chirons description which I…
Of Rosemary
The Description.
Of Worts or Wortle Berries
The Kindes.
Of the Mosse of Trees
The Description.
Of the Goose Tree, Barnacle Tree, or the Tree Bearing Geese
4 pages