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Asperugo. The fbalks are angular, and have ftiff 
rough hooks growing on their edges ; the tops 
of thefe, and the tops of the branches, are loaden 
with flowers ; they wreath and wind, like a fcor- 
pion’s tail, before the flowers blow : The flower 
is monopetalous, ihau’d like a funnel, and cut 
into five parts ^ the empalement is much enlar- 
ged when ripe, and fhuts clofe together : The 
feeds are oblong. Vv^e have but one fpecies of 
this plant, viz, 
Afperugo vulgaris,^ R. 228. Borrago minor fylve-^ 
flris,, P. 765. Aparine major Plinii,, G. 963. Small 
Wild Buglofs, by fome, Great Goofegrafs, and 
Germian Madwort. 
Lithospermum, Gromwell. The empalement is 
cut into five long narrow fegments to the bafe ; 
the flowers fhap’d like a funnel, opening at the 
top, and cut into five fegments *, the feeds are 
roundifh, hard, and look as if they were polifh- 
ed. The fpecies are : 
^ 1. Lithofpermum jeu Milium folis^ R. 228. mi-- 
nus,, G. 486. vulgare minus,, P. 432. Gromwell, 
or rather Gromill, or Grcymill. 
2. Lithofpermum majus Dodon^ei,, flore piirpureo,, 
femine Anchuf^e,, R . 2 2 9 . maj us,, G . 4 8 6 . vulgare 
majus,, P. 431. The LeflTer creeping Gromwell. 
Gromwell feed is accounted a powerful diurerick, and a clean-' 
fer of the reins and ureters, being boiled in wine or water; and 
is of great fervice againft the ftone, gravel, or ftoppage of urine j 
and alfo againft the heat of it, and a gonwrrhsea, 
Myosotis Scorpioides, Scorpion-grafs. The 
flowers grow in a long fpike on the tops of the 
ftalks and branches ; which fpikes, before the 
flowers blow, wreath and twine themfelves like a 
fcorpion’s tail : The flowers are divided, at the 
brims, into five fegments, and are fucceeded by 
four fhining feeds. The fpecies are : 
I. Myofotis fccrpicides hirfutUy R. 229, P. 691, 
L fcorpioida 
