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4. Eshium pulloJlore, 
Vipers SM&lofte wish darkc reddith flower to 
11 . 12 . Echium Creticum album & nigrum. 
Hoary white and blacke Vipers Buglofle of Candf* 
not full halfe an inch broad,thicke,rough,and a little hard,but thofc that grow upward upon the ftalke which is 
a foote high, are fomewhat broader, rough and whitifh, the leaves that grow towards the toppes being marked 
with yellowifh purple fpots : the toppe of the ftalke is branched, and beareth fmall yellow long hollow flowers, 
like the other j the feede contained in the huskes are fmall, foure for the mod part fet together in a head or huske, 
and fomewhat like the reft .* the roote is fmall and fomewhat long,browne on the outfide, and white within. 
9. Echioides parva alba, The lmall white Vipet* Buglofle, 
This fmall white wilde Buglofle, is in moft things like unto the laft, but that the leaves have no fpots upon 
them, and the flowers are pale almoft white ; the feede differeth not, bu.t the roote is very lmall and threddy, yet 
browne as the other. 
1 o. Echium Hifyamcum flore calcari donato , Small Spanifh Vipers Buglofle with fpurres. 
This fmall plant which Eauhinw referrethunto the kindes of wilde Buglofle, becaule I am not well acquainted 
with it, muft pafle as he hath called it, and that you may know it, he thus deferibeth it; from a wooddie fibrous, 
browne coated roote, rife divers round and fomewhat hairie ftalkes, fome of an hand breadth long, and othersj 
fhorter bending downe wards,compa fled with a few thicke leaves,likc unto the mountaine Specdewell but thic¬ 
ker and rougher: the flowers that grow at the tops, are holloWjlong,and ending in foure brimmes like unto the 
other forts, but of a blew colour, having a fpurre or taile behind, like thofe of Todeflaxe ; the feede is long, 
rough, and blacke like the other. 
11. Echium Creticum album. Hoarie white Vipers Buglofle of Candy . 
This Candy plant hath many thicke long and narrowifh hoary leaves, fomewhat like thofe of Alkonet, fet full 
of fliarpe haires, from whence rifefundry fmall hand-high ftalkes, round and rough likewile with a few fmal- 
ler leaves fparfedly fet thereon, at whole toppes ftand tufts of yellow flowers in lmall long rough huskes uftto 
whom fmall white feede doe fucceede of the likenefle of Vipers heads, and of the bignefie of wheate cornes: 
the roote i^long blacke fmall and woddie, divided into other fmaller partes. 
1 2. Echium Creticum nigrum. Blacke Vipers Buglofle of Candy. 
Thisdaintie Ccind.c Buglofle groweth high with many fliarpe prickly thicke ftalkes bending downewards 
fet full of thicke long leaves as fharpely fet with prickly haires as the ftalkes, and ending in a fharpe point; at the 
toppes of the ftalkes,and likewife at the joy nts with the leaves, come forth faire large bell flowers with open 
brimmes, fome of them being blew, either pale or deepe. others more purple with foure or five fmalLthreds in 
their middles, after whofe fading rife blacke Viperhead-like feede in long cods, or feede veffells; from whence 
the name of that, was impofed to diftinguiflb it from the other with white feede; it hath a Angle long white 
roote of a thombes bignefle, and fmall at the end: the whole plant is of little fent, but of a fweetifh fharpe 
