R IBE.^, 
4. Bugula A/pina cmrulea, Blew mountaine Bugle. 
- rhe mountaine Bugleis not unlike the other, having lonS« and thicker leaves, efpecially at the bottomes of 
! cm, feeming for the fmallnefle to be footeftalkes, dented 
do about the edges,and (omewbat hard or hairy, thinnely 
) t by couples upon the (quare hairy (hikes,a foote high or 
lore, at the toppes whereof the flowers (band in fpikes, 
rererfet together then the former, and of a blew colour, 
trihioned like unto the reftjthe roote is long, with divers fi. 
les thereat. 
5. Bugula flare hitca. Bugle with yellow flowers. 
This yellow Bugle is fmaller then any of the former by 
|uch, having rounder leaves upon the (hikes, and dented 
out the edges like unto them : the flower is yellowifti, 
nding in the fame manner that the reft doe. 
6 . Bugula odorata Lufltanica, 
Swecte Portingall Bugle. 
This kinde of Bugle rifeth up with three or foure round 
id hairy (hikes about a foote high, at the joynrs whereof 
grow leaves by couples, which are long hairy, and divided 
r tome on both Tides into two or three gafibes, each bow- 
| ig backe a little, the largeft leaves are lowed, and fmaller 
r ill up to the toppes, where among the great fpikie heads 
nfflowersthey areveryfmall •, the flowers are of a violet 
'Urple colour, formed hollow with lips as it werehang- 
ng downe, fomewhat like the former Bugles, ftandingin 
uppes, wherein afterwards grow white (cede, which by 
owing it felfe doth often rife againe, for it is but annuall, 
he roote is compofed of many blacke fibres: all the whole 
plant hath a very pleafant frnt. 
The Place . 
The firfl and fecond grow in woods and wet copfes, and 
fields generally throughout England in many places, but the 
fecond is harder to be met withall. The third groweth in 
Auftria and fome other places of Germany as Cluflus faith. 
The fourth upon Mount Baldus. The fifth isfaid to grow 
with us, and the lad in Portugal! 
The Time. 
They all flower from May untill Inly, and in the meane 
rime they perfeft their feedc, the roote and leaves next thereunto upon the ground, abiding all the Winter, 
untill the next Spring. 
The Hamer. 
It hath no Greeke name or author, that wearecertaineof, but is called in Latine in thefe times C onfolida 
media, and Solidago media ( but there are many herbes that arc called Qonfolida and Solidago, from their vertues 
as you draft findethem remembred in their (overall Chapters ) and Bttglum or Bagla, as Rue/liu< faith the French 
were wont to call it, and more ufnally now adaies Bugula-, but fome as I faid before confounded this with Pru¬ 
nella, making them all one : fome alfo tooke this to beSympbitnmpetraum of Diofcoridet, to which it anfwereth 
in nothing to his defeription, as you (hall hcare hereafter in the next Chapter, cMatth'ioliu calleth it Laurcnuna 
or Hcrba Laurentina. Some would have it to be Qhammifflm flic at a P Unq. lib. 74. c. 15. and others to be his 
Anonymos.lib. ly.c. 4. The firfl: is called by Tragus Prunella carulcaprima, ve/mojor, and as he faith is the Pru¬ 
nella Argentincnjis , by Thalius Confolida media major, by ‘Dodonaw and Cluflus Bugula, by Label and Pena Bur. il¬ 
ia and Prunella qtiibufdam, by Anguillara Arthretica PandePlarijfljy mod writers Confolida media pratnfls cerul.-i, 
ft he third is mentioned by Cluflus with the name Bugula camel calorie fl'ore, by Thalius Confolida media minor, by 
Tragus Prunella purpurea v el quart a as Ban finite thinketh, who calleth it him felfe Confolida media pratetfl pur¬ 
purea, The fourth Bauhimu deferibeth in his Matthiolm and Prodromus. The fifth is remembred onely by Bern- 
bimts in his Prodromus, that he had it out of England. The la(t is mentioned by lacobus Cornutus, among hi: Ca¬ 
nada Plants. By the Italians it is called Confolida meroana, and of them of Siena as Oifatthio/us faith, CM or undo la, 
by the French Bugle, by the Germanes Gunnel, and (gulden Cfunzel, by the Dutch Sevegroen, in Snglifh Bugle or 
Browne Bugle, and Middle Cumfrey or Confound. 
TheVtrtues. 
Bugle is temperate in heate, but drying moderately, and is fomewhat aftringent. It is of excellent ufe for 
thole that have caught any fall, or are inwardly bruiled, for it diffolveth the congealed blood, and difperfeth ic 
by taking the dccoiftionot the leaves and flowers made in wine; the fame is no lelfe effefluall for any inward, 
wounds, thrufts or ftabbes into the body or bowels,and is an efpecallhelpe in all wound drinkes, as alfo for thole 
that are Liver growne as they call it, whofe inward griefes and paines arife from the obftruftions of the Liver, 
and gall, and (trengtheningrhe parts afterwards ; it is wonderfull in curing aft manner of ulcers and fores, whe¬ 
ther they be new and frelh, or old and inveterate, yea gangrenes and fiftulaes alfo, either the leaves'bruiled and 
applycd, or their /nice ufed to wadi and bathe the places; andthe fame made into a lotion with fome Irony of 
roles andallomecureth all fores of the mouth or gums, be they never fo foule or ot’long continuance.ic worketh 
no Idle powerfully and effectually, for fuch ulcers and fores as happen in the Secret parts of men or women: it 
helpeth thofe alfo tuat have broken any bone of their body, or have any diflocation ofa Joynt, both ufed inward-* 
ly, and applyed outwardly; an ointment made with the leaves of Bugle, Scabious,and Sanide, bruiled and boy- 
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