252 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



ter, flowring the next Spring following. The other flower not vntill July, 

 and fo continue, efpecially the Marfhe Buglofle vntill September bee well 

 fpent, and then giueth feede, if early frofts ouertake it not ; for it feldome 

 commeth to be ripe. 



The Names. 



Our ordinary Borage by the confent of all the beft moderne Writers, is 

 the true Buglojfum of Diofcorides, and that our Buglofle was vnknowne to 

 the ancients. The Borago femper virens, Lobel calleth Bugloffum femper vi- 

 rens, that is, Euer-liuing, or Greene Buglofle : but it more refembleth Bo- 

 rage then Buglofle ; yet becaufe Buglofle abideth greene, to auoyde that 

 there mould not be two BugloJ/a femper virentta, I had rather call it Borage 

 then Buglofle. Anchufa hath diuers names, as Diofcorides fetteth downe. 

 And fome doe call it Fucus herba, from the Greeke word, becaufe the roote 

 giuing fo deepe a colour, was vfed to dye or paint the skinne. Others call it 

 Bugloffum Hifpanicum, in Englifh Alkanet, and of fome Orchanet, after the 

 French. Limonium was found by Leonhartus Rauwolfius, neere vnto lop- 

 pa, which he fetteth downe in the fecond Chapter of the third booke of 

 his trauayles, and from him firft knowne to thefe parts : I haue, as you fee, 

 referred it to the kindes of Buglofle, for that the flowers haue fome refem- 

 blance vnto them, although I know that Limonium genuinum is referred to 

 the Beetes. Let it therefore here finde a place of refidence, vntill you or I 

 can finde a fitter ; and call it as you thinke beft, eyther Limonium as Rau- 

 wolfius doth, or Marfhe Buglofle as I doe, or if you can adde a more pro- 

 per name, I mail not be offended. 



The Vertues. 



Borage and Buglofle are held to bee both temperate herbes, beeing vfed 

 both in the pot and in drinkes that are cordiall, efpecially the flowers, which 

 of Gentlewomen are candid for comfitts. The Alkanet is drying, and held 

 to be good for wounds, and if a peece of the roote be put into a little oyle 

 of Peter or Petroleum, it giueth as deepe a colour to the oyle, as the Hype- 

 ricon doth or can to his oyle, and accounted to be fingular good for a cut or 

 greene wound. 



The Limonium hath no vfe that wee know, more then for a Garden ; yet 

 as Rauwolfius faith, the Syrians vfe the leaues as fallats at the Table. 



CHAP. XXXVIII. 

 Lychnis. Campions. 



THere bee diuers forts of Campions, as well tame as wilde, and although fome 

 of them that I fhall here entreate of, may peraduenture be found wilde in our 

 owne Countrey, yet in regard of their beautifull flowers, they are to bee re- 

 fpected, and nourfed vp with the reft, to furnifh a garden of pleafure ; as for the wilde 

 kindes, I will leaue them for another difcourfe. 



i. Lychnis Coronaria rubra Jimplex. The fingle red Rofe Campion. 



The fingle red Rofe Campion hath diuers thicke, hoary, or woolly long greene 

 leaues, abiding greene all the winter, and in the end of the fpring or beginning of fum- 

 mer, fhooteth forth two or three hard round woolly ftalkes, with fome ioynts thereon, 

 and at euery ioynt two fuch like hoary greene leaues as thofe below, but fmaller, 

 diuerfly branched at the toppe, hauing one flower vpon each feuerall long foot ftalke, 



confifting 



