Tas. 6466. 
SYMPHYTUM PEREGRINUM. 
Native of the Caucasus. 
Nat. Ord. Boraginem.—Tribe Boracen. 
Genus Sympuyrum, Zinn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 854.) 
SYMPHYTUM peregrinum ; caule elato ramoso setis subreversis hispido, foliis inferi- 
oribus longe petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis superioribus sessilibus, 
omnibus molliter hispidis ciliatisque, petiolis decurrentibus, calyce fere ad basin 
5-partito segmentis triangulari-lanceolatis sensim acuminatis hispidulis, 
corolla calyce triplo v. quadruplo longiore, tubo angulato medio constricto 
supra medium subcampanulato, ore breviter 5-fido, dentibus latis apicibus 
recurvis, appendicibus antheras subzquantibus. 
8. peregrinum, Ledebour Ind. Sem. Hort. Dorpat. 1820, p. 4; Fl. Ross. vol. iii. 
p- 114; DC, Prodr. vol. x. p.37; Briggs in Report of Bot. Exchange Club 
Jor 1877-8, p. 17. 
8. asperrimum, Bab. Fl. Bathon. 32. 
The history of this plant, which is now well known under 
the erroneous name of Symphytwm asperrimum (or Prickly 
Comfrey) is still obscure. That it is not the true S. 
asperrimum of Donn, figured by Sims in this work (t. 929), 
is obvious from a comparison of that plate, in which the 
calyx is correctly represented as short, and shortly 5-cleft 
to the middle only, with obtuse lobes, and which has 
curved prickles on the stem, arising from conspicuous white 
tubercles. It agrees well with the character of S. peregrinum 
given in Ledebour, except that the appendages between the 
stamens are rather shorter (than longer) than the anthers, 
and the style is not always bent below the top (stylo infra 
apicem infracto), though it is sometimes so above the middle. 
From S. caucasicum it differs in the stem not being hirsute, 
nor the leaves softly hoary, and in the calyx being deeply 
divided. In the Report of the Botanical Exchange Club, 
cited above (in which work I find the plant for the first 
time referred, though doubtfully, to S. peregrinum), it is 
suspected to be a garden hybrid between S. asperrimum and 
DECEMBER Ist, 1879, , 
