250 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



4. Anchufa. Sea Buglofle or Alkanet. 



The Sea Buglofle or Alkanet hath many long, rough, narrow, and darke greene 

 leaues, fpread vpon the ground (yet fome that growe by the Sea fide are rather hoarie 

 and whitifh) among thefe leaues rifeth vp a ftalke, fpread at the toppe into many bran- 

 ches, whereon (land the flowers in tufts, like vnto the Garden Buglofle, or rather 

 Comfrey, but lefler ; in fome plants of a reddifh blew colour, and in others more red 

 or purplifh, and in others of a yellowifh colour : after which come the feedes, very 

 like vnto Buglofle, but fomewhat longer and paler : the roote of moft of them be- 

 ing tranfplanted, are fomewhat blackifh on the outfide, vntill the later end of Sum- 

 mer, and then become more red : for those that grow wilde, will be then fo red, that 

 they will giue a very deepe red colour to thofe that hahdle them, which being dryed 

 keepe that red colour, which is vfed to many purpofes ; the roote within being white, 

 and hauing no red colour at all. 



5. Limonium Rauwolfij. Marfh Buglofle. 



This Limonium (which I referre here to the kindes of Buglofle, as prefuming it is 

 the fitteft place where to infert it) hath many long narrow, and fomewhat rough leaues 

 lying vpon the ground, waued or cut in on both fides, like an Indenture, fomewhat like 

 the leaues of Ceterach or Miltwaft, among which rife vp two or three (lalkes, fome- 

 what rough alfo, and with thin skinnes like wings, indented on both fides thereof alfo, 

 like the leaues, hauing three fmall, long, rough, and three fquare leaues at euery ioynt, 

 where it brancheth forth ; at the toppe whereof (land many flowers vpon their foote 

 (lalkes, in fuch a manner, as is not feene in any other plant, that I know : for although 

 that fome of the fmall winged foot ftalkes are fhorter, and fome longer, (landing as it 

 were flatwife, or all on one fide, and not round like an vmbell, yet are they euen at the 

 toppe, and not one higher than another ; each of which fmall foote ftalkes doe beare 

 foure or fiue greenifti heads or huskes, ioyned together, out of each of which doe a- 

 rife other pale or bleake blew ftifFe huskes, as if they "were flowers, made as it were of 

 parchment, which hold their colour after they are dry a long time ; and out of thefe 

 huskes likewife, doe come (at feuerall times one after another, and not all at one time 

 or together) white flowers, confiding of fiue fmall round leaues, with fome white 

 threds in the middle : after thefe flowers are pad, there come in their places fmall long 

 feede, inclofed in many huskes, many of thofe heads being idle, not yeelding any 

 goode feede, but chafFe, efpecially in our Countrey, for the want of fufficient heate of 

 the Sunne, as I take it : the roote is fmall, long, and blackifh on the outfide, and perifh- 

 eth at the firft approach of Winter. 



The Place. 



Borage and Buglofle grow onely in Gardens with vs, and fo doth the 

 Semper virens, his originall being vnknowne vnto vs. Alkanet or Sea Bug- 

 lofle groweth neare the Sea, in many places of France, and Spaine, and 

 fome of the kindes alfo in England. But the Limonium or Marfhe Buglofle 

 groweth in Cales, and Malacca in Spaine, and is found alfo in Syria, as 

 Rauwolfius relateth : and in other places alfo no doubt ; for it hath beene 

 fent vs out of Italic, many yeares before eyther Guillaume Boel found it in 

 Cales, or Clufius in Malacca. 



The Time. 



Borage and Buglofle doe flower in lune, and luly, and fometimes fooner, 

 and fo doth the euer-liuing or neuer-dying Borage, but not as Gerrard faith, 

 flowring Winter and Summer, whereupon it mould take his name, but lea- 

 ueth flowring in Autumne, and abideth greene with his leaues all the Win- 

 ter, 



