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and by feme called Ox-Tongue , or Garden Ox- 
Tongue. 
IV. The Defer! ption. Our Common Buglofs hau 
a Root which is black without , and whit if}) within , 
long, thick , and full of a Jlimy Juice ( as the Leaves 
alfo are ) which continues and penfhes not every 
Lear , as the Root of Borage does -, from this Root 
comes up Jeveral long , narrow , hairy, whitifh green 
Leaves, among which rife up two or three very 
high Stalks, branched at the top, whereon fand many 
blew Flowers, confifing of five fmall round pointed 
Leaves, with a fmall Point el in the middle, which 
are very fnooth , fhining, and of a reddifh purple, 
Uobilfi they are Buds, and not blown open, which be- 
ing fallen, there grows in the green Husks, in which 
the Flowers food, three or four roundifh black Seeds, 
having that Thread or Point el, funding fill in the 
middle of them. 
V. The Lcffer Buglofs, which fome will have to be 
Ox-tongue, « much lcffer than the former , the Roots 
are long and creeping m the ground : and the Leaves i 
are very rough, and rougher indeed than the former, 
like the rough Tongue of an Ox or Cow, ( whence came 
the name ) the Stalk is about two Feet high , more or 
lefs, and commonly of a reddifh color : at the top of the 
Branches grow the Flowers in rough, Jcaly heads, which 
Flowers are compofed of many fmall yellotv LetFVes, 
much like thofe of Dandelion, and fly away in Down 
like as they do, thefe Flowers are bitter of tafe, 
whence Lobel calls it, Bugloffum Echioides luteum 
Hieracio cognatum. 
VI. The Places. The firfl is only nurfed up in 
Gardens, lo alfo is the feCond : but this latter is 
found to grow wild in many places, as between 
Redriff and Deptford, by watry Ditch fides, as Ge- 
rard lays. 
VII. The Times. They flower in May, June, and 
July, to the end of Summer, and the Seed ripens 
in the mean Seafon. 
VIII. As to their Qualities, Specification, Prepa- 
rations, Virtues and Ufes, they are altogether the 
lame with thofe of Garden Borage, of which we 
have treated before in Chap. 83. to which you are 
referred. But this is to be noted in Buglofs , that its 
Roots are much more Mucilaginous, Vifcous, or 
Clammy than thofe of Borage, and therefore are 
held not to be fo convenient for opening Apozems : 
but the faid Juice being made into a Lohoch or 
Licking El e iluary, may be prevalent againlt the 
Cough, Koarfnefs, and Colds, and to condenfate 
thin Diftillations or Flegm upon the Lungs. 
CHAP. XCIV. 
Oy"BUGLOSS Wild, or Ox-Tongue. 
I . ' | v H E Names. It is called in Greek yruojov 
X : in Latin, Bugloffum Sylveftre : and 
in Englifh, Wild or Field Buglofs, or Ox-Tongue. 
II. The Kinds. There are leveral Species of the 
Wild Buglofs, as 1. Bugloffum Sylve fire majus, fiore 
nigra. The Great Wild Buglofs. 2. Bugloffum Syl- 
veftre minus. The Small Wild Buglofs. ' 3. Bug- 
Elf tm Sylveftre minus Afperum , Rough Wild Bug- 
lofs. 4. Bugloffum dulcc, ex lnfulis Lancafiria, 
Sweer, or Lancafhire Buglols. 
III. The Defcription. The firft of thefe differs 
little front the Garden Buglofs, but in its great nefs, 
this being larger in every part : and in the color of 
the Flowers, which are of fo deep a purple color, that 
they are accounted as black. 
IV. The lecond Kind, has a fmall long Root : its 
Leaves are fomewhat broad, fhort, and rough, J mailer 
than cither the former Wild Kind, or the Garden 
Kind, and fomething more unevenly dented on the 
edges : the Flowers grow at the Tops, of a blewifh 
purple color, but f mailer than the former, and the 
Seeds grow three or four together, and blackifh alfo , 
like the other kinds. 
V. The Rough Wild Buglofs, has a Root like the 
former , but its Leaves are much rougher than any 
of the other Kinds, and fharper or f mailer towards 
their ends the Flowers on the Tops of the Bran- 
ches, are more like the Flowers of Galioplis, or (bak- 
ing Dead Nettle, than of any of the other forts of 
Buglofs : in fome Plants they are of a blewifl) pur- 
ple color, and in fome they are ivhite, but both colors 
are never found in one Plant. 
VI. The Lancafhire Buglofs, has a great Root, 
blackifh on t he out fide, and divided downwards, in 
fever al large Arms or Branches. From whence fhoots 
forth many flender Stalks , a Foot and half high, more 
or lefs. The lower Leaves whereof next the ground, 
are much lcffer than thofe of Borage, and of a whiter 
green, and fomewhat rough but thofe which grow 
on the Stalks are leffer , having the Flowers fet at the 
Joints with them, whofe Buds before they are blown 
are of a reddifh color, but when they are open, of a 
blewujh purple, fomewhat like thofe of Vipers’ Bug- 
lofs, or between them and Borage Flowers, of a 
very fweet, or Honey like Tafe. 
V II* The Places. The firft, fecond and third grow 
Wild in leveral Countries, and are fonietimes 
found growing Wild in England. Th q fourth was 
found by Mr. Hesket growing in one of the Iflands 
about Lancafhire. 
VIII. The Times. They all flower in June and 
July, and their Seed comes to ripenefs in a fhort 
time after, the Seed growing ripe, even in the time 
of Flowering. 
IX. The Qualities, Specification, Preparations ^ 
Virtues and Ufes , are moftly the fame with thofe' 
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