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Boraqci offirinalis. Natural Order: Boragiiiacea — Borage Family. 



\GLAND and the rest of Europe as well as America now 



own this plant in a naturalized state, though it is generally 



believed to have been originall}' indigenous to the region of 



Aleppo, in Turkey. It is cultivated in the kitchen garden 



lor Its young leaves, which are considered excellent for salads, 



"■'v^ pickles and pot-herbs. It is an annual, about two feet high, 



with o\al leaves growing alternately on each side of the stem, the 



whole plant being rough and covered with hairs. It is also grown as 



an ornamental plaht in the flower garden. The flowers are a pale 



blue, appearing in spring on the ends of the branches. The plants of 



this whole family abound in mucilaginous juices containing much niter, 



and are said never to possess any poisonous or harmful quality. 



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'pin.S is some fellow, 

 ^ Who, having been prais'd tor bluntness, doth affect 

 A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb; 

 Quite from his nature! he can't flatter, he, 

 An honest mind and plain — he must speak truth: 

 And they will take it so; if not, he 's plain. 

 These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness 

 Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends. 

 Than tnventy silly ducking observants. 

 That stretch their duty nicely. — 'i/ial-e.'fcare. 



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