66 CXTLPEPKB'S COMPLETB REBBAU 



Place. — They grow in gardens, and wild in manj placet 

 in this land. 



Time, — They seed in August and September. 



GovemmerU and Virtues. — They are all of them cooling, 

 drying, and binding, serviug to restrain the fluxes of blood 

 in either man or woman, especially the red ; which also 

 itayeth the overflowing of the women's reds, as the white 

 blite stayeth the whites in women. It is an excellent se- 

 cret ; you cannot well fail in the use : they are all under 

 the dominion of Venus. 



There is another sort of wild blites like the other wild 

 kinds, but have long and spiky heads of greenish seeda^ 

 seeming by the thick setting together to be all seed. 



This sort fishes are delighted with, and it is a good and 

 usual bait, for fishes will cite fast enough at them if yoa 

 have but wit enough to catch them when they bite. 



BORAGE.— (iJora^oCyWna/iA) BUGLOSS.--(i;ycop#w 

 Arventitn) 



Thbsk are so well known to the inhabitants in eyery 

 garden that I hold it needless to describe them. 



To these I may add a third sort, which is not so common 

 nor yet so well known, and therefore I shall give you its 

 name and description. 



It is called langue de hoeuf ; but why then should they 

 call one herb by the name bugloss and another by the 

 name langue de hceuff It is some question to me, seeing 

 one signines ox-tongue in Greek, and the other signifies 

 the same in French. 



Deecrip. — The leaves thereof are smaller than those of 

 bugloss, out much rougher ; the stalks arising up about a 

 foot and a half high, and is most commonly of a red co- 

 lour ; the flowers stand in scaly rough heads, being com- 

 posed of many small yellow flowers, not much unlike to 

 those of dandelioDs, and the seed flieth away in dowi^ as 

 that doth ; you may easily know the flowers by their taste, 

 for they are very bitter. 



Place, — It groweth wild in many places of this land, 

 and may be plentifully found near London, as between 

 Botherhithe and Deptford by the ditch side. Its virtues 

 are held to be the same with borage and bugloss, only this 

 is somewhat hotter. 



Time,— They flower in June and July, and the seed is 

 ripe shortly aner. 



OovmjymnU arid Virtuee, — ^Tfaej are all three herbs of 



