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hue; tube longer than the calyx, sparingly and minutely 
pubescent on the outside, having a white, fleshy, narrow 
edge projecting internally from its base over the disk, teeth 
of the limb blunt and revolute in their edges, teeth of the. 
throat erect, blunt, and having short, chrystalline cilia on_ 
their edges. Stamens included, about as long as the teeth ;_ 
filaments purplish ; anthers yellow, rather shorter than the 
free portion of the filaments, bifid at both extremities. Pis-_ 
“il rather longer than the stamens; stigma bilobular, 
rounded ; style slightly tapering, glabrous, lilac; germen— 
light yellowish-green, seated on a white disk. The unripe — 
Achenia are rough, irregularly depressed over their surface ; 
and each is raised on a sandglass-shaped portion of the | 
disk, the upper lobe of which projects from its lower side 
a simple row of short, dependent, subulate hairs. 
The seeds of this plant were received at the Royal Bota- — 
nie Garden, Edinburgh, from Dr. Fiscuer, under the name — 
here adopted, in 1830, and they blossomed, for the first — 
time, in May, 1832. The profusion of lively-coloured — 
flowers in this kind of Comfrey, which is less deformed by — 
coarseness of herbage than others, makes it one of the most — 
desirable for cultivation. Graham. 3 
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et ee 
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nifed 1. Flower. 2. Two of the Scales of the Corolla and Stamens : mag- — 
