_Descript._] OF these there are two sorts commonly known, viz. white and red. The white has leaves somewhat like to Beets, but smaller, rounder and of a whitish green colour, every one standing upon a small long footstalk: the stalk rises up two or three feet high, with such like leaves thereon; the flowers grow at the top in long round tufts, or clusters, wherein are contained small and round seeds; the root is very full of threads or strings. The red Blite is in all things like the white but that its leaves and tufted heads are exceeding red at first, and after turn more purple. There are other kinds of Blites which grow different from the two former sorts but little, but only the wild are smaller in every part. _Place._] They grow in gardens, and wild in many places in this land. _Time._] They seed in August and September. _Government and virtues._] They are all of them cooling, drying, and binding, serving to restrain the fluxes of blood in either man or woman, especially the red; which also stays the overflowing of the women’s reds, as the white Blites stays the whites in women. It is an excellent secret; you cannot well fail in the use. They are all under the dominion of Venus. There is another sort of wild Blites like the other wild kinds, but have long and spiky heads of greenish seeds, seeming by the thick setting together to be all seed. This sort the fishers are delighted with, and it is good and usual bait; for fishes will bite fast enough at them, if you have wit enough to catch them when they bite. BORAGE AND BUGLOSS. THESE are so well known to the inhabitants in every garden that I hold it needless to describe them. To these I may add a third sort, which is not so common, nor yet so well known, and therefore I shall give you its name and description. It is called _Langue de Bœuf_; but why then should they call one herb by the name of Bugloss, and another by the name _Langue de Bœuf_? it is some question to me, seeing one signifies Ox-tongue in Greek, and the other signifies the same in French. _Descript._] The leaves whereof are smaller than those of Bugloss but much rougher; the stalks rising up about a foot and a half high, and is most commonly of a red colour; the flowers stand in scaly round heads, being composed of many small yellow flowers not much unlike to those of Dandelion, and the seed flieth away in down as that doth; you may easily know the flowers by their taste, for they are very bitter. _Place._] It grows wild in many places of this land, and may be plentifully found near London, as between Rotherhithe and Deptford, by the ditch side. Its virtues are held to be the same with Borage and Bugloss, only this is somewhat hotter. _Time._] They flower in June and July, and the seed is ripe shortly after.