Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

FAMILY HERBAL. 43
distillation, which is good for the tooth-ach. It
is to be dropped on cotton, and to be put into the
tooth,
Borage. Borago.
A ROUGH plant common in our gardens, with
great leaves, and beautiful blue flowers. It grows
two feet high ; the stalks are thick, round, fleshy,
and juicy; and covered with a kind of hairiness
so sturdy that it almost amounts to the nature of
prickles. The leaves are oblong, broad, very rough,
and wrinkled ; and they have the same sort of
hairiness, but less stiff than that of the stalk ; the
largest grow from the root, but those on the stalks
.ire nearly of the same shape. The flowers arc
placed toward the tops of the branches ; they are
divided into five parts, of a most beautiful blue, and
have a black eye as it were in the middle.
Borage has the credit of being a great cordial;
are to be ob-
but if it possess any such virtues, they
tained only by a light cold infusion ; so that the
way of all the
throwing
medicinal preparations, for in them it is
nauseous.
it into cold wine is better than
White Bryony. Bryonia alba.
A TALL, climbing, wild plant,
which covers
our hedges in many places. The leaves are somewhat
like those of the vine; the flowers are inconsiderable
; but the berries are red, and make a
threat shew. The root is vastly large, rough, and
whitish the stalks are ; tough, ten or twelve ftet
but weak and unable to support themselves ;
hmg ;
they have tendrils at the joints, and by these they
affix themselves to bushes. The leaves are broad,