The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London

¶ The Description.

1 BOrage hath broad leaues, rough, lying flat vpon the ground, of a blacke or swart green co∣lour: among which riseth vp a stalke two cubits high, diuided into diuers branches, whereupon do grow gallant blew floures, composed of fiue leaues apiece; out of the mid∣dle of which grow forth blacke threds ioined in the top, and pointed like a broch or pyramide: the root is threddie, and cannot away with the cold of winter.

2 Borage with white floures is like vnto the precedent, but differeth in the floures, for those of this plant are white, and the others of a perfect blew colour, wherein is the difference.

† 3 Neuer dying Borage hath manie verie broad leaues, rough and hairie, of a blacke darke greene colour: among which rise vp stiffe hairie stalkes, whereupon doe grow faire 〈◊〉〈◊〉 floures, somewhat rounder pointed than the former: the root is blacke and lasting, hauing leaues both winter and Sommer, and hereupon it was called Semper virens, and that very properly, to distinguish it from the rest of this kinde, which are but annuall. ‡

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1 Borago hortensis. Garden Borage.

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2 Borago flore albo. White floured Borage.

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3 Borago semper virens. Neuer dying Borage.

4 There is a fourth sort of Borage that hath leaues like the precedent, but thinner and lesser, rough and hairy, diuiding it selfe into branches at the bottom of the plant, whereupon are placed faire red floures, wherein is the chiefest difference between this and the last described. ‡ The figure which belonged to this description was put hereafter for Lycopsis Anglica. ‡