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DESCRIPTION OP MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
and dull. Waysides and old fields; common. Near reser- 
voir, Nashville. FI. April. The whole plant. Since a 
long time obsolete, but very recently again becoming a pop- 
ular remedy in chronic catarrh of the bladder. 
BORRAGINACEiE. (Borage Family.) 
Cynoglossum officinale, L. Hound’s-Tongue. Coarse herb 
with a strong scent, clothed with short, soft hairs, leafy, 
panicled above, lower leaves petioled, upper lanceolate, 
closely sessile, by a rounded or slightly heart-shaped base; 
racemes nearly bractless; corolla reddish-purple, rarely 
white, funnel-form, the tube about equaling the 5-parted 
calyx, and throat closed with 5 obtuse scales ; lobes rounded. 
Stamens included. Nutlets flat on the broad upper face, ob- 
lique fixed near the apex to the base of the style, roughened 
all over with short, barbed and hooked prickles. Natural- 
ized from Europe, but frequent on waste grounds. The 
leaves are officinal. 
Onosmodium Carolinianum, DC. False Gromwell. Coarse and 
hispid perennial herb with oblong and sessile, ribbed-veined 
leaves and white flowers in at length elongated and erect 
leafy, raceme-like clusters. Before and at the time of flower- 
ing it has an appressed shaggy pubescence or softly-strigose 
canescence. Stem upright 2-3° high ; leaves ovate-lanceo- 
late, or oblong-lanceolate, acute. Calyx 5-parted, the di- 
visions linear and erect. Corolla tubular, not crested (the 
sinuses minutely hooded-inflexed) ; lobes of the rather broad 
corolla ovate-3-angular or 3-angular lanceolate, thickish hir- 
sute outside. Possesses the same qualities as O. Virgini- 
anurn, DC., which is very much like it. The root is collected. 
Symphytum officinale, Tourn. Comfkey. A coarse branched plant 
with a thick rootstock, a stem strongly winged by the decur- 
rent bases of the leaves, and yellowish white corolla. The 
lower leaves ovate-lanceolate, tapering into a petiole, the 
upper narrower. Corolla oblong-tubular; inflated above, 5- 
toothed, the short teeth spreading; the throat closed with 5 
