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mind between the way in which a daisy flower and a 

 pansy flower grow will, we think, suffice to explain 

 what we mean. 



It would appear that much of the value attached to the 

 borage in the Middle Ages had but little foundation in 

 fact. The only use to which it is now put is to give a 

 pleasant flavour and coolness to some few beverages ; the 

 more potent influences ascribed to it by the old herbalists 

 seem to be now lost. Gerarde recommends its use in 

 salads, " to make the mind glad." Parkinson, another 

 great writer on herbs, again commends it "to expel pen- 

 siveness and melanchollie." Bacon says that it " hath an 

 excellent spirit to repress the fuliginous vapour of dusky 

 melancholic ; " while Culpeper, in his medical treatise, 

 finds the plant ample employment, putrid and pestilential 

 fever, the venom of serpents, jaundice, consumption, sore 

 throat, and rheumatism being only a few of the ailments 

 for which it is prescribed. 



