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Show anemic Bai a . eee tory of Plants. 796 “Of the Hif e anh dn ahs,Vir gil withel: raftu ee beareth floures nor feed ; after 7 heoph writethagainf all truth, chat it neither th of his Aneidos. twelf the in es flour feth thatit dothbeare Dittamnumcenitrix Cretea carpit ab Ida, Ofthe Hiftory of Plants: ge 1 Borago hortenfis. 2 Boragoflore albo. White floured Borage, Garden Borage. tem Pubcribus caulemfolys,cy flore coman Purpur oo In Englith thus : crops His motherfrom the Cretean Ida s, Didtamnys having foft and tender leaue And purple floures vpon the bending tops, &c. q The Time. git : Ma ripe in September. They floure and flourifh in the Sommer moneths,their feedis . @ The Names. and Dictamnum : of fome,Paleginmfiluefirtgor Itis called in Greeke zmne: in Latine, Dictamnus Diétamnum withe,in the firft pms nie for wilde Pennic-roiall : the Apothecaries of Germa might hauebeene of fmall ne read Diptamnumwithp : but (faith Dodonens) this erour rootes oe a for Dittany,which they in ftead of the leaues of Dittanie,they did not vfe the ieee : ie ot Candie. alfely call DiGamaum: in Englith,Dittanie,and Dittan e,ofthe likeneffe it hath a Dittanie, oe otheris called P(eudedit#amnum,0r baftard Dittani it skilleth not, though the fhoppes knowit not : thereafon why let the Reader guefle, | The Temperaturce Thefeplantsare hotand drie of nature. @The Vertues. fume, ae on Dittaniebeeing taken in drinke, or putvp ina peffarie, or vfed in a fecondineor the driueth foorththe dead children: it procureth the monethly termes, and birth. se dpeth The iuice takenwithwine isaremedie againft the ftingingof ferpents. very {mell alfo it ar The fameis thought tobe offo ftrong an operation, that withthe way venomous beafts,and dothaftonith them. It is reported likewife that thewilde Goats and Deere in Candiewhen they bewoun dedwith 3 Boragofemper virens, Neuer dying Borage, diet arrowes,do fhake them out by eating of this plant, and heale their wounds. 4 There is a fourth fort ofBorage that hath leaues like the precedent, but thinner andleffer, tough and hairy, diuidingit felfe into branches at the bottom of the plant, whereuponare placed faire red floures E Ny P , It preuaileth muchagainft all wounds,and efpecially thofe madewith invenomed we the an a guns,or fuchlike,and is very profitable for Chirurgians that vfe whereinis the chiefeft differencebetweenthis and the rowes fhot out of Dol", * wars,to carry with themand haue in readineffe ; itdraweth forthalfo {plinters ofwood, b not off0 fuch like. Thebaftard Dittanie,or Péudodictamuum, is fomewhatlike in vertues to the firft, Du! E laft deferibed. + The figure which belonged to this defcription was put hereafter for Lycopfis Anglica, + 2 @ The Place. Thefe grow in mygarden,andin others alfo. ~ great force,yet it ferueth exceeding well for the purpofesaforefaid. a The Time. Borage floures andflourifhes moft part ofall Som: —— ee Cuar. 282 iner,and till Autumnebe far fpent. a] The Names. Borage is called in fhops Borag : ofthe old Writers, évv’prxeer , whichis called in Latine Lingua Bubula : Of Borage. @ The Defiription: rat Pliny calleth it Euphrofinum, becaufe it maketh a man merryand ioyfull :whichthing alfo the old verfe cons cerning Borage dothteftifie : greet CO* Orage hath broad leaues,rough, lying flat vpon the ground,ofa blacke . aes branches lour: among whichrifeth vpa ftalke two cubits high, diuided into ¢ ee the _ Whereupon do grow gallant blew floures,compofed offiue leaues apiecs;} ramidestt® ; dle of which growforthblacke threds ioinedin the top,and pointed like a broch Of py root is threddie,and cannot away with the cold ofwinter. E < for thole ot ae Borage with white flouresis like vnto the precedent,but differeth in the Ais 3a ant are white,and the others ofa perfe& blewcolour,whereinis the different 3 Neuer dying Borage hath manie verie broad leaues,rough andhairic, oe greene colour: among whichrifevp ftiffe hairieftalkes, whereupon doe Stow sce ales! fomewhat rounder pointed than the former: the root is blacke and lafting, ee ; winter and Sommer,andhereuponit was called Semper virens,and that very propery? it from thereft of this kinde,whichare but annuall, $ 2G0 Borago caudiafcmper aco. It ctuagi is cal] i a in I Boragebring alwaies courage. . = ¥ . high Dutch Burretich sin Italian, Boragine »in Spanith, Borzces : in low Duteh, ith, Borage, . sin Engli I tis eul 1 = dently moifandnét in likefort The Temperature, ot, but feemes tobe ina meane betwixt hot and of Tho @ The Vertues. NOLO) i Nisin, cone time do vfe the floures may of— made of them, vfed in f lads, to exhilérate and make the mind glad.Therebe euie ty where for the comfort ofthe heart, for the driaing ">and encreafing the ioy of the minde. g Xxx ’ The A |