FAMILY HERBAL. *9 



of lfose spikes. The cups remain when the flowers 

 are gone., and hold the seeds. 



The juice of this plant is esteemed good for in- 

 ward bruises ; it is a very good diuretic. 



Bugloss. Buglossum hortense. 



A ROUGII and unsightly plant kept in our 

 gardens for the sake of its virtues, but very rare- 

 ly used. It grows to a foot and a half high ; 

 the leaves are rough like those of borage, but 

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

 and rough surface. The stalks are also covered 

 with a rough and almost prickly hairiness. The 

 same sort of leaves stand on these as rise imme- 

 diately from the root, only smaller. The flow- 

 ers stand at the tops of the branches, and are very 

 prettji, though not very large ; they are red when 

 they first open, but they afterwards become blue, 

 the root is long and brown. It flowers in June 

 and July. 



Bugloss shares with borage the credit of being 

 a cordial ; but perhaps neither of them have any 

 great title to the character ; it is used like borage, 

 in cool tankards ; for there is no way of making 

 any regular preparation of it, that is possessed of 

 any virtues. 



There is a wild kind of bugloss upon ditch- 

 banks, very like the garden kind, and of the same 

 virtues. 



Burdock. Bardana. 



IF the last-mentioned plant has more credit for 

 medicinal virtues than it deserves, this is not so 

 much regarded as it ought. Providence has made 

 some of the most useful plants the most common ; 



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