490 MR. C. BUCKNALL : A REVISION 
Of S. sicyosmum, Candargy (Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xliv. 1897, р. 150) 
I have seen no specimens, and the description being so nearly that of 
S. anatolicum, Eam unable to distinguish it from that species. 
SYMPHYTUM. 
Tournefort, Inst. p. 138, t. 56 (1700) : Linn. Gen. ed. T. p. 39, no. 109 
(1737) : Engler & Prantl, Pflanzenfam., Borrag. Teil iv. Abteil За 
(1893). 
Herbie. perenni, hispide. Flores in racemis scorpioideis geminis nudis 
terminalibus dispositi. Cady. campanulatus vel tnbulosus, quinque-partitus 
vel quinquedentatus. Corolla infundibuliformis vel subeylindrica, limbo 
ventricoso late breviterque quinquedentato, «dentibus | semiorbicularibus 
triangularibusve apice obtusis sepissime breviter patentibus, — Fornices 
quinque, lineares vel subulati, eonniventes, margine papillosi, inclusi raro 
exserti, cum staminibus alternantes. Stamina inclusa, antheris. oblongis. 
Stylus filiformis, breviter exsertus, stigmate minute eapitato. VNuculæ 
quatuor, liberze, ovate, magis minusve curvatæ, oblique earinatze, area basi- 
lari annulari tumidá excavatå dentatá toro insidente et eum cum dentibus 
amplectente ; strophiolo oblongo pallido e cavitate pendente. 
CHARACTERS OF THE SPECIES, 
The root in the greater number of the species is fusiform, either simple or 
branched, and sometimes very thick and fleshy. In the remaining species 
it is more or less creeping, with nodular, tubercular or cylindrical thickenings, 
being simple or branched according to the species. 
The stem is correlated with the root—in the species with a fusiform root it 
is branched, constituting the Ramosa, and in those with a creeping root it is 
normally simple—the Stmplicia. In the Ramosa the branches may be simple, 
bearing only one pair of leaves and racemes, or compound and similar to the 
main stem. Again, the branches may be much smaller than the stem and 
arranged in a racemose manner, or the stem may be subdichotomous, with the 
branches approaching it in size. In the Stmplicia the stem is often bifid at 
the apex, and sometimes bears rudimentary branches in the axils of the 
leaves, or more rarely fully developed flowering branches. 
The clothing of the stem and branches generally consists of a fine, scattered 
-pubescence, together with longer hairs which may be slender and soft, setose 
and rigid, or claw-like and prickly, with or without tubercular bases. [n the 
inflorescence the clothing is denser than that of the stem, and often consists 
of curved or uncinate hairs directed upwards. 
The leaves are sometimes bullate, and are entire or very occasionally 
partially dentate, but this is probably an abnormal condition. The margin, 
