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Show The Garden ofpleafantFlowers, The Gardenofpleafant Flowers. 4. Anchufa.Sea Bugloffe or Alkanct, , narrow s and darke greene The Sea Bugloffe or Alkanet hath many long, tough the ground(yet fome that growe by the Sea fide are ratherhoarie leaues, {pread vpon thetoppeinto manybran. and whitifh) among thefe leaues rifeth vp a ftalke,fpread at fé, or rather ches, whereon ftand the flowers in tufts , like vato the Garden Buglof morered others in and colour, h blew reddif ofa nts fomepla in ; Comfrey,but leffer s, very feede he comet which after : colour ifh yellow or purplifh , and in others ofa of them be. like vnto Bugloffe, but fomewhat longer and paler : the roote of moftend of Sum. later the vntill e, outfid n the ifhio hatblack ing tran{planted, are fomew fo red, that mer , and then become more red: for thofe that grow wilde, will be theneing dryed , whichb they will giuea very deepe red colour tothofethat handlethem within being white, roote the es; purpof keepe that red colour, which is vfed to many and hauing no red colour at all. 5. Limoniam Reawolfj. Marffh Bugloffe, This Limonium (which refetre hereto the kindes of Bugloffe, as prefumingitis thefitteft place whereto infert it)hach many long narrow,and fomewhatroughleaues lying vponthe ground, waued or cut in on both fides, like an Indenture,fomewhatlike the leaues of Ceterach or Miltwaft, among whichrife vp two or three ftalkes, fomewhat roughalfo, aad with thin skinneslike wings,indented on both fides thereof alfo, like the leaues, hauing three {mall,long, rough, and three fquare leaues at euery ioynt, where it brancheth forth; at the toppe whereof ftand many flowers vpontheir foote ftalkes, infuch a manner,as isnotfeenein any other plant, that 1know : foralthough that fome ofthefall winged foot ftalkes are fhorter, atid fome longer, ftandingasit were Aatwife, orall on oncfide, andnot routid like an vmbell, yet are they cuen atthe toppe,and notone higher than anether ; each of which {mall foote ftalkes doebeare foureorfiue greenith heads or huskes, ioynedtogether, out of ¢ach of which doce rife other pale or bleake blew ftiffe huskes, asif they were flowers, made asit were of archment, which hold their colour after they are dry a long time ; and out oftheft huskes likewife,doecome (at{euerall times one after another, and notall at onetime ortogether) white flowers, confifting of fiue {mall round lcaues, with fomewhite threds in the middle afterthefe flowersare paft, there comein their placesfmall long feede, inclofedin many huskes, many of thofeheads beingidle, not yeeldingany goed feede, but chaffe, eipecially in our Countrey, for the wantof fufficientheateot the Sunne, as I take it: the rooteis {mall, long,and blackifhonthe outfide,and perilheth atthe firft approach of Winter. The Place. Borageand Bugloffe grow oncly in Gardens with vs, and fo doth the Semper viress, his originall being vnknownevnto vs.. Alkanet or Sea Bug: loffegroweth neare the Sea, in many placesof France, and Spaine, a0¢ } fome of thekindesalfo in England. But the Limonium or Marthe Buglolle growethin Cales, and Malacca in Spaine, and is found alfo in Syria, ® : NL r V GB S ALEX \ I) e <en \ Rauwolfiusrelateth : and in other placesalfo no doubt ; for it hath beent | a f N fent vs out of Italie, many yeares before eyther Guillaume Boel found it Cales, or Clufius in Malacca. Te NI The Time. . _ Borageand Bueloffee doe flowerin Iune, and Iuly, and fometimes foonth and fodoth the eucr-lining or neuer dying Borage,but notas Gerrard faith, flowring Winter and Summer, whereuponit fhould take his name, but lea ueth flowing in Aucumne, and abideth greene withhis leauesall the W™ Ct, L Pulmenaria latifolia macule{a. CowMips of lerufalem. 2° Pulmonaria angustifolia. Narrow leafed Cowflips oflerufalem, 3 Borrago.Borage. 4 Borrago femper virens.Eucthiuiog Borage: 5 Apchufas Sea Buglofie Or Alkanct,. 6 Limoninm Ranwelfij. Markh Buglofic. |