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ochroleuca, purpurea vel rosea, calyce duplo longior. Fornices triangulari- 
subulati, stamina vix superantes. — .[nfhere filamentis duplo longiores. 
Nucule leves vel leviter areolate, nitidee, nigre, supra basin non constrict. 
Caulis 3-12 dem. altus ; folia radicalia 15-25 em. longa, 6-8 em. lata ; 
caulina 15-20 em. longa, 4—5 em. lata, summa 4-6 em. longa, 1-1:5 em. 
lata; flores 14-18 mm. longi; calyx 7-8 mm. longus ; corolla 15-17 mm. 
longa ; nucule 4:4 mm. longa, 2:5 mm. 1ай. 
Symphytum herbarii vocant Consolidam majorem vulgus Comfrey, W. Turner, 
Libellus (1538). 
Consolida major, Lobel, Stirp. Hist. p. 315 (with figure) (1576) : C. Bauhin, 
Phytopinax, p. 500 (1576). 
Symphytum magnum, Lyte, A niewe Herball, p. 145 (1578). 
Symphytum Alum seu Alus, Lobel, Stirp. Advers. pars ii. p. 251 (1605). 
Symphytum magnum, J. Bauhin, Hist. iii, p. 533 (1650); Ray, Synopsis, 
ed. 1, p. 77 (1690). | 
S. officinale, Linn., Hudson, Fl. Angl. ed. i, p. 68 (1762) ; Withering, Bot. 
Arr. ed. 1, p. 105 (1776). 
S. bohemicum, Schmidt, Boh, cent. ii. p. 13 (1704). 
^. officinale, B. purpureum, Guss, Fl. Sie. Prod. i. p. 219 (1827) ; DC. 
Prod. x. p. 37 (1846): Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ni. p. 114 (1846-51); 
Gren. & Godr. Fl. Fr. ii. p. 551 (1850); Willk. & Lange, Prod. FI. 
Hisp. ii. p. 491 (1870). 
^. molle, Janka in Termés. Füzetek, i. p. 29 (1877). 
S. officinale, Linn., Rouy & Foue. Fl. Fr. x. p. 289 (1908); Coste, Fl. Fr. 
i.p. 581 (1903); Kusnez. Сапе. Sp. Symph. pp. 22 & 65, t. i. 
figs. 1 & 5 (1910). 
Geogr. Disrr.—From BRITAIN and Spars to Russia and SIBERIA; and 
from SCANDINAVIA to S. ITALY, Greece and Turkey. 
Subvar. а. ocHRoLEUCUM, DC. Flores albidi vel ochroleuci. 
Consolida major flore albo, Gerard, Herb. p. 660 (1597). 
S. officinale, Linn., Oeder, Fl. Dan. t. 664 (1777) : Curt. Fl. Lond. ed. 1, 
vol. 11. t. 220 (1777) ; Smith, Eng. Dot. xii. t. 817 (1801) ; DC. Prod. 
x. p. 37 (1846) ; Syme, Eng. Bot. t. 1515 (1867). 
Subvar. 9. PURPUREUM, Pers. Flores purpurei. 
Consolida major flore purpureo, Gerard, l. c. 
S, patens, Sibth. Fl. Oxon. p. 70 (1794). | 
. officinale B. purpureum, Persoon, Synopsis, i. p. 161 (1805). 
officinale var. bohemicum, D. Don, Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. ii. vol. iv. t. 304 
(1838). 
officinale B. purpureum, Pers., DC. Prod. x. p. 37 (1846). 
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