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and Italy ; but besides its Humidity and detersive Nature, ’tis insipidenough.

7. Borrage, Bnglo'jsum Latifolium Borrago ( Gaudia semper ago )hot and kindly moist, purifying the Blood, is an exhilarating Cordial,of a pleasant. Flavour : The tender Leaves, and Flowers eipecially, maybe eaten in Composition, but above all, the Sprigs in Wine, like thoseof Baum , are of known Virtue to revive the Hypochondriac, andchear the hard Student. See Bugloss.

8. Brooklime, Anagallis aquatica , or Becca bunga (French Mou-ron d’Eau ; moderately hot and moist, prevalent in the Scorbute andStone.

9. Bucks-horn, or Harts-horn Plantain, (Cornu Cervinum, Coro-nopus Hortenjls ) the best is the broad-leav’d curl'd Bucks-horn , whichmay be eaten in Sallets, whilst young and tender.

10. Bugloss, Bugloffum Augustifolium ; in Nature much like Bor-rage, yet something more astringent. The Flowers of both, with theentire Plant, greatly restorative, being Conlerv'd; And for the rest, somuch commended by Averroes, that for its Effects, cheristiing theSpirits, justly call’d Euphrojynum : Nay, some will have it the Nepen-thes of Homer : But indeed, what we now call Bugloss, was not thatof the Ancients, but rather Borrage, for the like Virtue namedCorrago.

i r. Burnct, is the Bimpinella Sanguisorba, or Bimprinclle ; eatenby the French and Italians j esteem'd of so chearing and exhilarating aQuality, and so generally commended, (as giving it admittance toall Sallets, ) ’tis pals’d into a Proverb.

L'lnsalata non e buon , ne bella,

Ove non e la Bimpinella,

But a frelh Sprig in Wine recommends it to us as its most genuineElement.

12. Buds, Gemma ; not only those Edule Garden Plants are prefe-rable to other lcis tender Parts, but even the Turiones , and first Rudi-ments and Tops, gather’d from wild Plants, in Woods and Fields ,make delicious Sallets: Witnels the Buds taken out of the Craws ofStock-doves in the Spring; nay, the Buds and tender Seed-Veffels ,or early Fruits of some Blunts, when muriated or pickled, are justlyesteem'd, though no other part of the Plant from which they are ga-ther’d are eatable; such as AJhen-Keys, Broom-Buds, hot and dry,retaining the virtue of Capers, esteem’d to be very opening, and pre-valent against the Spleen and Scurvy ; and being Fickled, are iprink-led among the Sallets, or eaten by themselves. But the Aspargi, ortender Sprouts of any Sallet-Herbs, when they little more than peepout of the Ground, retaining their Seed-leaves, are so highly esteem’dby many who are nicely critical in Sallets, that they will not eat themwhen they are grown larger; and therefore cause Sallet-Seeds to besown on hot Beds, not in Winter only, when other choice Sallets can-not be had, but every Month of the Year, far preferring them to anySallet-Herbs whatsoever, run up to more Maturity. But concerningthis hasty Production of the Hot-Bed, the Effect of artificial Compofls ,lee what we have said hereafter. .

The Gemma and Summities of several Plants, are exceedingly agree-able to the Balate, in the Composition of Sallets ; though their lesstender Parts are nauseous : as of Basil, Chervile , and many others.

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