476 THE VEGETABLE WORLD. 
By the side of Symphitum are grouped other genera very like 
them, such as the Borage (Borago officinalis), the rose-like corolla 
of which, purple in the bud, becomes of a very pretty blue when 
fully expanded; the Bugloss (Anchusa officinalis), sometimes 
Fig. 432.—The Comfrey (Symphitum officinale). 
called Ox-tongue, a common plant in waste places, the juice 
of which was formerly in request as a cordial; Pulmonaria off 
cinalis, employed in olden times in medicine, now abandoned | 
to the kitchen in the north of Europe, where it is used as a culi-- 
nary vegetable; the Myosotis, which from its pretty blue colour 
and from its beauty and freshness has obtained the name of 
Forget-me-Not; the Viper’s Bugloss (Echium culgare); chiefly 
