Containing the description, place, time, names, nature, and virtues of all sorts of Herbs for meat, medicine, or sweet smelling use, &c.

            We have in our first book sufficiently described the grasses, rushes, flags, corn, and bulbous rooted plants, which for the most part are such as with their brave and gallant flowers deck and beautify gardens, and feed rather the eyes than the belly. Now there remains certain other bulbs, whereof the most (though not all) serve for food: of which we will also discourse in the first place in this book, dividing them in such sort, that those of one kind shall be separated from another. In handling these and such as next succeed them we shall treat of divers, yea the most part of those herbs that the Latins call Olera: and we in English, salad herbs. When we have passed over these, we shall speak of other plants, as they shall have resemblance each to other in their external form.

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