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and fpotted Comfrey, and it might bee as fitly called ("potted Buglofle, 

 \\ hereunto it K as like as vnto Comfrey, as I f;iid before. 



The Vcrtues. 



It is much commended of Come, to bee fingular good for vlcered lungs, 

 that arc full of rotten matter. As alfo for them that fpit bloud, being boy- 

 led and drunkc. It is of greateft vfe for the pot, being generally held to be 

 good, both for the lungs and the heart. 



CHAP. XXXVII. 



i . BugloJ/um & Borrago. Buglofle and Borage. 



ALthough Borage and Buglofle might as fitly haue been placed, I confefle, in 

 the Kitchen Garden, in regard they are wholly in a manner fpent for Phyfi- 

 call properties, or for the Pot, yet becaufe anciently they haue been entertai- 

 ned into Gardens of pleafure, their flowers hauing been in fome refpeft ; in that they 

 haue alwaies been enterpofed among the flowers of womens needle-worke, I am more 

 willing to giue them place here, then thruft them into obfcurity, and take fuch of their 

 tribe with them alfo as may fit for this place, either for beauty or rarity. 



The Garden Buglofle and Borage are fo well knowne vnto all, that I (hall (I doubt) 

 but fpend time in wafte to defcribe them ; yet not vfing to pafle ouer any thing I name 

 and appropriate to this Garden fo fleightly, they are thus to bee knowne : Buglofle 

 hath many long, narrow, hairy, or rough fad greene leaues, among which rife vp two 

 or three very high ftalks, branched at the top, whereon ftand many blew flowers, confi- 

 fting of fiue fmall round pointed leaues, with a fmall pointell in the middle, which are 

 very fmooth, Oiining, and of a reddifh purple while they are buds, and not blowne o- 

 pen, which being fallen, there groweth in the greene huske, wherein the flower ftood, 

 three or foure roftndim blacke feedes, hauing that thread or pointell ftanding ftill in 

 the middle of them : the roote is blacke without, and whitifli within, long, thicke, and 

 full of flimie iuice (as the leaues are alfo) and perimeth not euery yeare, as the roote of 

 Borage doth. 



2. Borrago. Borage. 



Borage hath broader, fhorter, greener, and rougher leaues then Buglofle, the ftalkes 

 hereof are not so high, but branched into many parts, whereon ftand larger flowers, 

 and more pointed at the end then Buglofle, and of a paler blew colour for the moft 

 part (yet fometimes the flowers are reddiOi, and fometimes pure white) each of the 

 flowers confiding of fiue leaues, Handing in a round hairy whitifh huske, diuided 

 into fiue parts, and haue a fmall vmbone of fiue blackifh threads in the middle, ftanding 

 out pointed at the end, and broad at the bottome : the feed is like the other : the root is 

 thicker and ihorter then the roote of BuglolTe, fomewhat blackilh without alfo, and 

 whitilh within, and perifheth after feede time, but rifeth of it owne feede fallen, and 

 fpringeth in the beginning of the yeare. 



3. Borrago femper virens. Euerliuing Borage. 



Euerliuing Borage hath many broad greene leaues, and fomewhat rough, more re- 

 fembling Comfrey then Borage, yet not fo large as either ; the ftalkes are not fo high 

 as Borage, and haue many fmall blew flowers on them, very like to the flowers of 

 Buglofle for the forme, and Borage for the colour : the rootes are blacke, thicker then 

 either ot them, fomewhat more fpreading, and not perifhing, hauing greene leaues 

 all the Winter long, and thereupon tooke his name. 



I 2 4. Anchufa. 



