Just; amlbelw(en Crafthole and Loop: Rev. J. F. Jokes, in Bot. Tour. — 
Devon ; About Chudleigh and Teignmouth : Rev. J. P. Jones, ibid. Banksof 
the river near Tavistock : Mr. Knapp. — Durham ; On the Ballast hills of Tyne 
and Wear: Mr. Winch. — Hampshire; Godshill, Isle of Wight : Mr. W. G. 
Snookf, in W ith. Bot. Arr.- — Kent ; At the entrance into Sandwich from Deal ; 
and about Lyme Castle: Air, Dillwyn; By the road-side Ilythe East; and 
at Winchelsea, near the east gate: Rev. G. E. Smith. — In Surrey ; Air. W. 
Pampi.in. Jun. — Warwickshire ; In a field by Arrow turnpike : Air. Purton, 
in Midi. FI. — WALES. Carnarvonshire ; On the summit of a high rock at 
I.landrydno, near Conway: Rev. S. Dickenson. — SCOTLAND; At Burnt- 
island : Air. AIai'chan. About Glasgow, but generally near gardens : Air. Hop- 
kirk. On the Debiis of Salisbury Craigs : Air. Bainbridoe, in Grev. FI.F.din. 
— IRELAND. County of Cork ; Old Abbey of Timolegne : Mr. Drummond, 
in Mack. Catal. 
Annual. — Flowers from June to November. 
Root tapering, and mucilaginous. Whole plant clothed all over 
with white awl-shaped bristles, seated on a vesicular tubercle, which is 
often of a reddish colour ; these tubercles, Mr. Thomson observes in 
his Lectures on Botany, p. 642, “ contain a fluid, which is ejected 
through the bristle when it is compressed so as to wound the finger; 
and which being left in the wound excites a slight degree of in- 
flammation in the part.” Stem branched, from 1 to 2 feet high, 
round, hollow, spreading, leafy. Leaves alternate, egg-shaped, 
wavy, and more or less toothed ; the lower ones broadest, and 
stalked ; the upper ones sessile, somewhat stem-clasping, and slightly 
decurrent. Flowers numerous, and very beautiful, in terminal 
drooping bunches. Calyx divided to the very base. Corolla nearly 
an inch broad, of a brilliant blue colour ; pink in the bud ; segments 
of the limb spear-shaped ; tube very short and white. Outer valves 
short, obtuse, and slightly notched ; inner ones (fig. 3.) awl-shaped, 
dark purple, or blackish. Filaments very short, attached to the 
dilated base of the awl-shaped valves. Anthers strap-shaped, pro- 
minent, blackish. Style thread-shaped, usually shorter than the 
stamens. Seeds wrinkled or warty, of a light shining brown. The 
whole plant has somewhat the smell of cucumber. The flowers 
sometimes vary to flesh-coloured or white ; the latter variety has 
been found in Kent, by Mr. Dillavyn, and by ihe Rev. G. E. Smith; 
about Allesley in Warwickshire, by the Rev. W. T. Buee; and it 
comes up annually from self-sown seeds in the Oxford Botanic 
Garden. 
Borage was formerly reckoned one of the four cordial flowers, 
along with Alkanet, Roses, and Violets, and was held in great repute 
as a cordial herb, for exhilarating the spirits; and hence the old 
adage, 
“ I Borage, bring always courage.” 
The plant is now seldom used, except as an ingredient in cool 
tankards, for summer drinking. The young and tender tops are 
good in salads, or as a pot herb. The juice affords a true nitre. 
