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‘The leaves of Borage manifeft nothing remarkable either to tha 
fmell or to the tafte; but they abound with a juice, which, in its 
expreffed: fate, is faid to be faltifh, and which, on being boiled a 
fufficient time, forms cryftals of nitre :* fimilar ‘cryftals: have alfo 
been obtained from a decodtion of the leaves ;* and hence it may be 
inferred, that this plant has a peculiar claim to the poffeffion of re« 
frigerating and aperient virtues. Dr. Withering obferves, that the 
_ young and tender leaves are good in fallads, or as a pot-herb. 
_ Cordia Myxa, whofe fruit is of the drupaceous or plumb kind, and 
“was formerly known in the fhops by the name (defen, is the only 
remaining medicinal plant placed by botanifts in this natural order - 
which we have not figured. The leaves of the Myxa, however, 
unlike thofe of the other fpecies of Cordia, are {mooth and naked; 
it therefore cannot properly belong to the afperifoliz; and as febeftens 
feem to have no medical advantages over many other dried fruits, we 
hall, without further apology, proceed to the order Perfonata. 
© Marcgraf in Mem. de L* Acad. des Sc. de Berlin. 1747. p. 79. 
* Boulduc Mem. de L’ dead, des Sc. de Paris, 1734..p. 101. 
PERSONATE. 
