XXV. 



BORAGO OFFICINALIS. 



Common Borage. 



Class V. Fe^tandri A.— Order I. Monogynia. 



Nat. Ord. Boragine^. 



Gen. Char. Calyx five-cleft. Corolla rotate, with five 

 acute segments ; orifice closed with five obtuse, emar- 

 ginate teeth. Nicts wrinkled. 



Spec. Char. Limb of the corolla flat, much longer than 

 the tube ; orifice with a double row of valves, the inner- 

 most awl-shaped, bearing the stamens. Lower leaves 

 obovate. 



SYNONYMES. 



Latin 



Buglossum latifolium, Borrago. Smth. Pin. 256. 



Borago hortensis. Ger. Em. ^9^. 



Borago floribus coeruleis et albis. Rati Syn. 228. 



Borago officinalis. Lin. Sp. PI. 197. 

 French .... Bourrache commune. 

 Italian .... Borragine ; Borrana. 

 Spanish .... Borraja ; Borraxa. 

 German. . . . Borretseh ; Burretsch. 



Dutch Bernagie ; Bemasie. 



Polish Borak. 



Description. — The root is long, whitish, divided, fibrous, 

 mostly biennial. The stem is much branched, erect, cylindrical, 

 thick, succulent, clothed with stiff hairs, and about two feet in 

 height. The leaves are alternate, undulated, hispid, and of a 

 deep green colour ; the lower ones obovate, petiolate, and 

 eared at the base ; the upper ones ovate, and nearly sessile. 



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