Bugloss, a name popularly applied to many plants of the natural order Boragineæ (q.v.), more strictly to Anchusa (Lycopsis) arvensis, a common weed in cornfields in Britain. The beautiful Echium vulgare bears the English name of Viper's Bugloss. Both these plants are naturalised in the United States.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 528
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