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prefcribed a decoétion of the roots of Hounds-tongue for internal ufe, 
and at the fame time applied. the roots as a poultice to {crophulous 
tumours with fafety and advantage.’ Hence it appears that this 
part of the plant at leaft cannot be confidered as an active poifon. 
The leaves and roots of Cynogloffum have been employed with the 
fame intention, and principally with a view to their mucilaginous, 
aftringent, and fedative qualities, as in coughs, hemoptyfis, diarrhceas, 
dyfenteries, &c.° Their external ufe is alfo recommended in ill-con- 
ditioned ulcers'and tumours. | | A 
SS ieao: 1) MUSE Beh sa | 
’ © Vide Schreckius Diff. de Cynogloffa.. 
BORAGO OFFICINALIS. COMMON BORAGE. 
SYNONYMA. Borago. Pharm. Geoff. v. 3. 201. Dale. 136. 
‘Alfion. v. ii. gt. Lewis..158. Ed. New Difpenf 150. Bergius. 
86. Murray. v, ii. 95. Bugloffum latifolium, Borrago. Baxh. 
Lin, 256. Borrago hortenfis, Gerard. Emac. 797. Borago 
floribus caruleis & albis. Raii. Hif. 493. Synop. 228. B. offici- 
nalis. Hudfon. Flor. Ang. 82. With. Bot. Arr. 196. Ic. Hort. 
Roman. 7, 2 ; 20. 2t. Eng. Bot. 36. ie c 
Pentandria Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Pl. 188. 
Geh..Ch. Cor. rotata: fauce radiis claufa. 
‘Sp. Ch. B. foliis omnibus alternis, calycibus patentibus. 
ROOT divided, fibrous, and in Britain fcarcely more than biennial. 
Stalks branched, round, fucculent, hairy, erect, rifing to the height 
of two feet. Leaves ovate, alternate, undulated, hairy, ciliated, irre- 
gularly defined at the edges, and at their bafes embracing the ftem. 
; Flowers 
