50 THE ENGLI«5n PIIV.^ICIAN ENLARGED. 



flicm, if you liavc hut wit enough to catch them -vvhcn 

 thcj bite. 



Borage and Bugloss. "V and ^ (fern. m. 2.) 



These are so well known to the inhabitants in every 

 garden, that I hold it needless to describe them. 



To these 1 may add a third sort, which is not so com- 

 mon, iior yet so well knoMii, and therefore 1 shall give 

 you its name and description. 



It is called Langue dc Bauf; but why then should they 

 call one herb by the name Bugloss, and another by the 

 name Langue de licuj? It is some question to me, seeing 

 one signifies Ox-tongue in Greek, and the other signifies 

 the same in French. 



Descript.'} The leaves are smaller than those of Bug- 

 loss, but much rougher ; the stalk ariseth up about a foot 

 and a half high, and is most commonly of a red colour; 

 the flowers stand in scaly rough heads, being composed 

 of many small yellow flowers, not much unlike to those 

 of Dandelions, and the seed llieth away in down, as that 

 doth; you may easily know the llowers by their taste, 

 for they are A'ery bitter. 



Place.'] It groweth wild in many places of this land, 

 and may be plentifully found near London, as between 

 Rotherhithe and Deptlord, by the ditch side. Its virtues 

 are held to be the same with liorage and Bugloss, only 

 this is somewhat hotter. 



TimeA They flower in June and July, and the seed is 

 ripe shortly after. 



Government and Virtues.'] They arc all three herbs of 

 Jupiter and under Leo, all great cordials, and great 

 strengthcners of nature The leaves and roots are to very 

 good purpose used in putrid and pestilential fevers, to 

 defend the heart, and help to resist and expel the poison, 

 or the venom of other creatures ; the seed is of the like 

 eft'e6ts; and the seed and leaves are good to increase milk 

 in women's breasts; the leaves, llowers, and seed, all or 

 any of them, are good to expel pensiveness and melau 

 choly; it helpeth to clarify the blood, and mitigate 

 heat in fevers. The juice made into a syrup, prevaileth 

 niuch to all the purposes aforesaid, and is put with 



