BORAGINACE^:. 



Fruit smooth externally, rough on the side next the receptacle. The 

 species of Trichodesraa are considered diuretic, and one of the cures for 

 snake bites in India. Royle. 



SYMPHYTUM. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla campanulate, with a truncated, 

 cylindrical shallow-toothed limb as long as the tube ; its throat 

 closed by 5, lanceolate, fringed, converging valves or append- 

 ages (sterile stamens). Anthers sagittate, acute, concealed by 

 the valves. 



986. S. officinale Linn. sp. pi 195. Eng. Bot. t. 817. Woodv. 

 t. 215. Smith Eng.Fl. i. 263. In watery meadows through- 

 out Europe. (Comfrey.) 



Root externally black, oblong, fleshy, yielding much pure insipid 

 mucilage, which renders it useful in coughs, and all internal irritation. 

 Stems 3 feet high, hairy, winged with the decurrent bases of the taper- 

 pointed, wavy, rough-edged leaves. Clusters hairy, stalked, in pairs, 

 revolute. Calyx more or less spreading. Smith. Formerly in much 

 repute as a vulnerary, but not now employed. 



987. Cynoglossum officinale L. was once officinal, being used 

 as an antispasmodic ; but it is so fetid that it has long since 

 ceased to be exhibited. Smith says it is narcotic. 



*#* No plants of this order are of any real importance in medicine. 



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