Description. This resembles the other in most respects but size, this being smaller, and in its not being hairy like the former. The leaves are some shades darker green, and have a more crip appearance. In every other regard, it is only a smaller species, and possesses the same virtues, and where one cannot be obtained, the other may supply the place.
Government and virtues. It is under Mercury. Mouse-ear is of a bitterish styptic taste, and is accounted to be drying and binding, and a good vulnerary herb, and helpful for all sorts of fluxes: a decoction of it, used as a gargarism, is commended for ulcers in the mouth. Dr. Hulse made use of the juice of Mouse ear, as a remedy against the herpes miliares, or shingles.
In the old dispensatories, there was a syrup that took its name from this plant, which is now out of use, and therefore left out in the new.