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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, 



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 to the nature of 

 prickles. The leaves are oblong, broad, very rough, 

 and wrinkled ; and they have the same sort of 

 hairiness, but less stiff than that of the stalk ; the 

 largest grow from the root, but those on the stalks 

 .ire nearly of the same shape. The flowers arc 

 placed toward the tops of the branches ; they are 

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

 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 by a light cold infusion ; so that the 

 way of throwing it into cold wine is better than 

 all the medicinal preparations, for in them it is 

 nauseous. 



White Bryony. Bryonia alba. 



A TALL, climbing, wild plant, which covers 

 our hedges in many places. The leaves are some- 

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

 considerable ; but the berries are red, and make a 

 threat shew. The root is vastly large, rough, and 

 whitish ; the stalks are tough, ten or twelve ftet 

 hmg ; but weak and unable to support themselves ; 

 they have tendrils at the joints, and by these they 

 affix themselves to bushes. The leaves are broad, 



