The Theater of TUnts. 
Chap. 
20 „ 
Tribe 6. __ 
-r A c email that thev fcarce (hew themfelves out of thehuskes wherein they (land or rather hang, 
der pointed,an ° , • i )ea j s anc i quickly fall away ; in the laid hushes are found foure fmall flat feedes fome- 
^h'thkeunto ^Echiuns, or the wildc Bugloffe: the roote is fmall and long, and perilheth as fooneasit hath 
borne feede which is mim her^ariorum. Small creeping Borage. 
Tk . , ,, n Ara „ e (hooteth forth many leaves from the roote very like unto the leaves of Fnlmonaria macula. 
This foall Bo g /cW) every ' one upon a i ong f 00t e (hike (but not fpotted) ot a darke greene colour, 
/W fpotted Cow^ p _ t ar( . fena ii anc ( fl en der not above halfe a foote high, w ith very few leaves thereon, 
and leiler wan tn y • theflowers ma de of live blew round pointed leaves,more like Bugloffe than Borage, 
a " d ^nr anv P threads in the middle, every one upon a long foote tlalke, the roote is compofed of many long 
blackWi firings more like unto Avens than Borage : intheleavcs is a certame acrimony or Iharpendfe, joyned 
with the muccilaginoufne He when they are tailed.^ 
The firft is onelv nurfed up in gardens, even in Italy from whence the feede was brought unto us and unto o- 
i ne nru is» wn«y r c, w dde in divers countries,and are iometimes found in our 
therefo U ndby Mr.T few . Hesket : thefixt in Germ* 
L t/faith, andin Naples as Columns, faith, and in our owne Land il l be not much deceived for I thinke I 
have feene fuch a one in diCers fields in Kent as I have palled through them i the laft Label faith he faw ,n the 
narden of the Low countries with thofc that were lovers of rare plants, and profpereth well in our owne 
® . The Time, 
8 They doe all flower in the monech of June and July, yet OM faith thatthe laft flowreth both inthe Spring 
and inL4«/> and their feede doth ripen quickly after, both ripe feede and flowers, may at one time be gather 
red from many of them. 
J The Names. 
Our Garden Borrage is called by the Sreekes.as Pliny faith, Euphrofiaeab efciendavoluptate and by 
the judgement of the beft of our moderne Writers is the true ; g«yx*.rj>- of the ancients, moll cruely 
imitating an oxe or neates tongue,which is Lsngua bubula or Bovina,^i t :> it. feemed it was called by Catomlibek 
re rufHca&c 40. when he advifeth to take a leafeor a branch of Imgua bubula to cover a ftocke when it is grafted, 
to keepe away the raine from abiding in the cleft, for which purpole thele leaves of Borrage being broader than 
thofe of Bugloffe is more fit. Apuletus faith, that Bughfum (meaning our Borrage) was called by them of Luca, 
Corral* auod cordis afcBibus medetur, which by the alteration of one letter is farrago, Sc from thence I think came 
the nine of Barrage, which is not lonnd in any of the ancient Writers. Our Buglofle is called by feme Buglofiu 
and Buglefum by moll,yet fome doe call it Bugle fum Hiffimam and Itahcum. It were an adyife not to be con- 
temnedt that our Borrage fliould be ufed lor Bugle fum ,where it is appointed in any medicine,efpec,ally m Syrup* 
By antin', for if the juyee of our Buglofle betaken to make it, the juyee isifo_ flume that it will never make a 
good fyrrupe as it ought to be.unleffe that after the brufing of the herbe itbe fet in a ce.ler or cold place before the 
iuvee be preffed, The firft here expreffed is called by Fuchfius and and from them iLugdunenfu Cirfium 
Germanic™, for they did account all the forts ofBugloffe to be Cirfia or Echta »sTragus dothalfo, and calleth 
this BmU fa minor, Fmhfm likewife calleth it Echium lanugimfum prmum.Gefiur whom calleth it Bug/.fus 
minor and Lugdunenfi, Buglofumminusfativum. Label, as I f.id in the defet,priori, calleth that fort with red 
flowers, which is a Ipecies hereof Echij facie Buglofum minimum, and thereupon Buubmm calleth it Bugolfum 
uneufiifilium minus .-the fecond Matthialus calleth Bughfum fylvefire pndalterum flare nigro-Thaltus Bugle ft 
fylveSiisniara, and Bauhinus thereupon Bughfum fylvefire majus nigrunr .the third ,s called by ’Dodonsus Bug cfa 
/ylveSris and frutkofa, and Lycoffi, fylvefiri ,; by L'bel Bughfum err ana,m afbernmEchioides, by Fuchfius Echsum 
Germanicum fpinofum, it is the Bor r ago fylvefiri, of Tragus,md called by Baukuus Bughfumfylveftremmu : the 
fourth is called by Tragus Bughfafylvefiri,, by honkers « Lycopfis, by Cords,, in kflona Auchuaminar by Lugdu- 
nenfis Bughfum fyvefre minis, and by Bauhinm Bugleffumfyvcltre minus alterum and is likely to be the Cyno- 
olofum of Tragus and Euchfim, for that it was formerly ufed among the Germane, for Cynoglofum ,and is called 
Anchufa alteraoiCordu, upon Viofcorides, the fife hath notbeene related by any before : the (ixt is called by Label 
AMum Germanicum Schioides, by Thalius Buglofa fylvefiri, fpecies, and taken by Tabermentmnu and others to be 
the A par ine mayor Vlini ]: but Csfalpinus calleth it Crucial* quedam, and in his ‘Dutch Booke Afperug* 
(huria- Columna Barrage minorfilvefiris, and Bauhinus Bughgumfylvefire cautibm procumbembm-. the laft is 
called L LobelSjmphylumpumilumrepen, Borraginkfacie, feu Barrage mimmaherbartorum.sAihKh Bauknus put- 
teth among the Sjmphna, and calleth it Symphitum minus Borrapnu face. The Arabians call die Borrage and 
Bugloffe Lefen artbaer, the Italians Boragine and Bugle fa, the French Borache and Buglofe, the German's Buerres 
and Ochfenrjtnrrhe, the Dutch Bernesge and Ofentonghen, 
The Vert net. 
Becaufe I was fobriefe in my former booke in fetting downe die properties of the Garden Borrage and Bu- 
gloffe, I thinke it convenient to expatiate their vertaes under thefewilde forts. T he G arden kindesare tem pe¬ 
rate and accounted rather hot and moyft in the firft degree then cold,and yet for their cordiall porpert.es are of ten 
ufed amon° other cold herbes as conducing to the like effeft. Viofcorides appropriated, them with oyle agamft 
Erifypilas or Saint Anthonies fire, and to cure greene wounds; The leaves or rootes are to very good purpofe 
ufed in all putrid or peftilentiaU Feavers, to defend the heart, and to helpe to refill and expell the poifon or the ye- 
nome of other creatures: the feede is of the like effea and alfo helpeth Nurfes to have more (lore of mdke, for 
which purpole the leaves are much conducing : the leaves,flowers and feede, all of them or any of them are very 
cordiall and helpe to expell penfiveneffe and melancholic, that arifeth without mamfeft caufe, whereof carry the 
laving eaoBorraaogaudiafemper ago, and as I fayd before called Corrago : it helpeth alfo toclarifie the blood and 
mitigatethe heate in feavers t the juice made into a Syrupe prevailed, much to all the parpofes a fore la,d, and is 
alfo put with other cooling opening and clenfing herbes to open obftruiftions.and to helpe the yellow laundies.t o 
coole and clenfe the blood and temper the heate and ftiarpencfic thereof, efpecially with Fumitory and thereby 
to helpe the Itch, Ringwormes 01: Tetters or other fpreading fcabbes or fores thatanfe from aduft and^fliarpe 
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