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distillation, which is good for the tooth-ach^ It 



is to be dropped on cotton^ and to be put into the 

 tooth. 



V 



Borage. Borago. 



A ROUGH plant common in our gardens, with 

 great leaves, and beautiful blue flowers. It grows 

 two feet high ; the stalks are thick, round, fleshy, 

 and juicy; and covered with a kind of hairiness 

 so sturdy that it almost amounts io the nature of 



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broad 



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and wrinkled ; and they have the same sort of 

 hairiness, but less stifl' than that of the stalk ; the 

 largest grow from the root, but those od the stalks 

 are nearly of the same shape. The flowers arc 

 placed toward the tops of the branches ; thej arc 

 divided into five parts, of a most beautiful blue, aad 

 have a black eye as it were in the middle. 



Borage has the credit of being a great cordial; 

 but if it possess any such virtues, they are to be ob-* 

 tained only bv a light cold infusion ; so that the 



of 



Id wine is better than 



all the medicinal preparations, for in them it if 



nauseous. 



White Bryonit. Bryonia alia 



A TALL, climbing, wild plant, which covers 

 our hedges in many places. The leayes are some* 

 what like those of the vine; the flowers are in- 

 considerable ; but the berries are red, and make a 

 great shew. The root is rastly large, rough, and 

 whitish ; the stalks are tough, ten ar twelve ^eei 

 long ; but weak and unable to support themselves : 

 ihcy have tendrils at the joints, and by these they 



affix themselves to bushes. The leaves are broadj 



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