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Bu G L O S S. 



BUGLOSSUM HORTENSE. 



Roudi and unfightly Plant kept in oui 



Gardens for the Sake of its Virtues, but very 

 rarely ufed. It grows to a Foot and a half high \ 

 the Leaves are rough like thofe of Borage, but 

 they are long and narrow, of a deep green Colour, 

 and rough Surface. The Stalks are alfo covered 

 with a rough and almoft prickly Hairinefs. The 

 fame Sort of Leaves ftand on thefe as rife imme- 

 diately from the Root, only fmaller. The Flow- 

 ers ftand at the Tops of the Branches, and are very 

 pretty, though not very large -, they are red when 

 they firft open, but they afterwards become blue. 

 The Root is long and brown. It flowers in June 



and July. 



Buglofs fliares with Borage the Credit of being 



a Cordial ; but perhaps neither of them have any 



great Title to the Charadleri it is ufed like 



Tank 



f making 



any regular Preparation of it, that is polTefled 



of any Virtues. — . 



There is a wild kind of Buglofs upon Ditch- 

 Banks, very like the Garden kind, and of the 

 fame Virtues. 



Burdock. 



BARDANA. 



F the lail mentioned Plant has more Credit for 

 medicinal Virtues than it deferves, this is not 

 fo much regarded as it ought. Providence has 

 made fome of the moft \ifefui Plants the moft 

 common, but, becaufe they are fo, we fooliihly 



neglecfl them. 



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