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ee Anchua.Sea Bugloffe or Alkanet. 
The Sea Bugloffe or Alkanet hath many long, rough, narrow , and darke ereene 
leaues, {pread vpon the ground (yet fome that growe by the Sea fide are rather hoarie 
and whitith) among thefe leauesrifeth vp a ftalke, fpreadat thetoppe into many bran. 
ches, whereon ftand the flowers in tufts , like vnto the Garden Bugloffe, or rather. 
Comfrey, but leffer ; in fome plants of a reddifh blew colour , andin others morered _ 
: or purplith , and in others of a yellowith colour: after which comethe feedes, very. 
like vnto Bugloffe , but fomewhat longer and paler : the roote of moft of them be. | 
ing tranfplanted, are fomewhat blackifhon the outfide, vntillthe laterend of Sim: 
_ mer, and then become morered : for thofe thatgrow wilde, will be then fo red, that 
they will giue avery deepered colour tothofethat handlethem, which being dryed _ 
keepe that red colour, which is vfed to many purpofes ; the roote within being white, — 
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of oot Lesh o 5, Limeninme Rawwelfy. MatfiBuglofle, = = TN Me 
"This Limonium | which I referre hereto the kindes of Bugloffe, as prefuming cle 4 
the firreft sperm rtit)Hath many long,narrow,and fomewhat rough leaues _ 
lying vponthe ground, waued orcut in on both fides,likean Indenture,fomewhatlike ~ 
the leaues of Ceterach or Miltwaft, among which rifevptwo orthree ftalkes,fome: 
what rough alfo,and with thin skinnes like wings,indented on both fidesthereof alfo, 
like the leaues, hauing three fmall,long, rough, and three {quareleaues at euery ioynt 
whereit brancheth:forth ; atthe toppe whereof ftand many flowers vpon shore oid 4 
ftalkes, in fuch a mannet,as isnot {eenein any other plant, that [know : foralthough 
that fomé ofthe fmall winged foot ftalkes are fhorter, andfome longer, ftandingasit — 
were flatwife; or all on one fide; and not round like an vmbell, yetarethey euemarthe _ 
toppe,and not one be = ong ; each of which {mall foote ftalkes doebeare 
foure or fue grcenith heads or huskes, ioyned rogether, out of each of which doeas 
rifeother pale or bleake blew ftiffe huskes, asif they were flowers, made as it were of 
ar¢hment, \ which hold their colour after they are dry along time’; and out of thefe _ 
kes likewife, doe come (acfeueralltimes:one afteranother, and notallat onetime _ 
ortogether) white flowers, confifting of fiue fall round leanes, with fomie white _ 
threds ia the middle : afterthefe flowersare paft, there come in their places fmall long 
feede, inclofed in many huskes, many of thofeheadsbeing idle, not yeeldingany — 
gee but chaffe, e{pecially in our Countrey, forthe want of fufficientheateof — 
| the Suane, as I take ic: the roote is fmall,long,and blackith on the outfide, and perifh- 
conf». Borageand Bugloffe grow onely in Gardens with vs, and fodoth the 
“soo Semper virens, his originall being vnknownevnto ys. Alkanet or S¢aBug- 
Say , orl: loflegroweth neare the Sea, in many places of France, and Spaine; and 
> eo} {fome of thekindes alfo in England. But the Limonium or Marthe Buglofle _ 
owcthin Cales, and Malacca in Spaine,/and is found alfo in Syria, as 
: olfius eo : andin peed wails nodoubt ; forithathbeene _ 
ent vs out of Italie, many yeares before eyther Guill icin 
| Gales, or Clafies inaleece re eet ete = Solana : 
rage and Bugloffe doc flower in lune, adTuly, ard fomctimesoonety 
doththe euer-liuing or neucr dying Borage,but not as Gerrard faith, 
ng Winter and Summer, wliereupon it thould cake his, ame, butlca: 
wring in Autumne, atid abideth grcene with his‘leaues a 
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