Lib. 2. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants; 
797 
I Borage hortcnfis. 
Garden Borage. 
7. Borago (lore albo. 
White floured Borage. 
3 Bor ago femper virens . 
'MmJxo- Neuer dying Borage. 
~ OtTLfcA^J 
4 There is a fourth fort of Borage that hath leaues 
like the precedent , but thinner and Idler, rough and 
hairy, diuiding it felfe into branches at the bottom o.f 
the plant, whereupon are placed faire red floures, 
hiefeft 
wherein is the chiefeft difference between this and the 
lalt defcribed. I The figure which belonged to this 
defcription was put hereafter for Lycopfis Angina, t 
The Place. 
Thefe grow in my garden, and in others alfo. 
The Time. 
Borage floures and flourifhes moft part of all Som- 
mer, and till Autumne be farfpent. 
The Names. 
Borage is called in fhops Baraga ; of the old Wri- 
ters, , which is called in Latine Lingua Btibula 
Pliny calleth it Euphrofinum^ becaufe it maketh a man 
jjerry and ioyfull : which thing alfo the old verfe con- 
cerning Borage dothteftifie : 
Eg a Bor ago gaudia femper ago . 
I Borage bring alwaies courage. 
It is called in high Dutch 23uctCtfcIj : in Italian, Boragine ; in Spanifn, Biraces in low Dutch, 
23truagt£ : in Englifh, Borage. 
The Temperature. 
It is euidently moift,and not in like fort hot, but feemes to be in a meane betwixt hot and cold. 
The Vert ties. 
Thofe of our time do vfe the floures in fallads, to exhilerate and make the mind glad .There be A 
alfo many things made of them, vfed cilery where for the comfort of the heart, for the drilling 
away of forrow, and encreafing the ioy of the minde. 
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