Crossword-Solution: BORAGO 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The superiority in weight of the self-fertilised seeds in at least six out of the ten cases, namely, with Brassica, Hibiscus, Tropaeolum, Nemophila, Borago, and Canna, may be accounted for in part by the self-fertilised capsules containing fewer seeds; for when a capsule contains only a few seeds, these will be apt to be better nourished, so as to be heavier, than when many are contained in the same capsule.

Borago officinalis (Boraginaceae).--Protected plants produced about half as many seeds as the unprotected.

Not much change beyond 12,000 feet, at that height Glaucium in abundance, with a few Hyoscyamus parvus, Borago.

This Alkanet has various other names, as _Borago sempervirens_, _Buglossum s._, and with old writers it, together with allied species, was much esteemed, not only for the flowers, but for its reputed medicinal properties.

Botanically, it is the _Borago officinalis_, this title being a corruption of _cor-ago_, i.e., _cor_, the heart, _ago_, I stimulate--_quia cordis affectibus medetur_, because it cures weak conditions of the heart.