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eyNocLossum orriemnaLe. ORD. XVIII. Asperifolic. Sil 
what degree of narcotic power Hounds-tongue possessés, or to what 
quantity it may be safely employed as a medicine, experience has 
not yet determined. The pil. de cynoglosso of the Wirtemburg 
and Danish Pharmacopeeias contain so small a proportion of this 
root, that their common use cannot be considered as affording suf- 
ficient proof of its innocence. Ray however informs us, that Dr. 
Hulce frequently prescribed a decoction of the roots of Hounds- 
tongue for internal use, and at the same time applied the roots as 
a poultice to scrophulous tumours with safety and advantage.’ 
Hence it appears that this part of the plant at least cannot be con- 
sidered as an active poison. 
The leaves and roots of Cynoglossum hinve been employed with 
the same intention, and principally with a view to their mucilagi- 
nous, astringent, and sedative qualities, as in coughs, hemoptysis, 
diarrhoeas, dysenteries, &c.* Their external use is also recom- 
mended in ill-conditioned ulcers and tumours. 
: * Vide J. c. 
. © Vide Schreckius Diss de Cynoglosso. 
BORAGO OFFICINALIS. COMMON BORAGE. 
EE eee Se 
SYNONYMA. Borago. Pharm. Geoff. 2. 3.201. Dale. 136. 
Alston. v. ti. 91. Lewis. 158. Ed. New Dispens. 150. Bergius. 
86. Murray. v. ii. 95. Buglossum latifolium, Borrago, Bauh. 
Pin. 256. Borrago hortensis. Gerard. Emac. 797. | Borago: 
floribus caruleis & albis. aii. Hist. 493. Synop. 228.  B. 
officinalis. Hudson. Flor. Ang. 82. With. Bot. Arr. 196. Ic. 
Hort. Roman. T. 2. t. 20.21. Eng. Bot. 36. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Pl. 188. 
Gen. Ch. Cor. rotata: fauce radiis clausa. . 
Sp. Ch. -B. foliis omnibus alternis, calycibus patentibus. : 
