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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
L 1 B. 2. 
B The leaues boyled among other pot-herbes do much preuaile in making the belly foluble they 
being boyled in honied wafer be alfo good againil the roughnefle of the throat, and hoarfenefl'e as 
Giilcn tcacheth. 1 
C The leaues and floures ofBorage put into Wine make men and women glad and merry and 
driue away all fadnefle, dulnefie, and melancholy, as Viofcorides and Pliny affirme. 
D Syrrup madeof the floures ofBorage comforteth the heart, purgeth melancholy, and quieteth 
the phrenticke or lunaticke perfon. 
E The floures of Borage made vp with fugar do all the aforefaid with greater force and effeft. 
F Syrrupmadeof theiuyce ofBorage with fugar, adding thereto pouder of thebone of a Stags! 
heart, is good againft fwouning, the cardiacke paffion of the heart, againft melancholy and the fal- 
ling ficknefle. 
G The root is not vfed in medicine : the leaues eaten raw ingender good bloud,efpecially in thole 
that haue been lately ficke. 
Chap. z8}. Of TSugloJJe. 
f The Kindes. 
L ike as there be diuers fotts of Borage, fo are there fundry of the Buglofles ; notwithftanding 
after Diofcorides , Borage is the true BuglofTe : many are of opinion, and that rightly, that they 
may be both referred to one kinde ; yet will we diuide them according to the cuftome of our 
time, and their vfuall denominations. 
•J The Defcripthn. 
i r T' 1 Hat which the Apothecaries call Buglofle bringeth forth leaues longer than thofeof 
Borage, (harpe pointed, longer than the leaues of Beets, rough and hairy. The ftalke 
groweth vp to the height of two cubits, parted aboue into fundry branches, whereon 
are orderly placed blewifh floures, tending to a purple colour before they be opened, and afterward 
more blew. The root is long, thicke,and grolfe,and of long continuance. 
a Lang 
