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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 



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Co; fill da rnaior flpy tpttrptrreo. 



Comfrey with pin pie floures. 









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* 3 Symphytum tuberosum. 



Comfrey with the knobbed root. 



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?jf 0gf parvum Boraginis facie. 



Borage-floured Comfrey. 



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grow vpon the ftalkes are Iong,broad,rough, and 

 pricking withall, fomething hairy, and becing 

 handled make the hands itcb,very like in colour 

 and roughneffe to thofe of Borage v but longer, 









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and fharp pointed as bee the leauesof Eleeam 

 pane : from out the wings of the ftalkes appear* 

 the floures orderly placed, long, hollow within, 

 of a light red colounafter them growes the feed 

 which is black : the root is long and thick,black 

 without, white within, hauing in itaclapmy 

 /uice,in which root confifteth the vertue. 



2 The great Comfrey hath rough hairy 

 ftalks and long rough leaues much like the gar- 

 den Buglofle, but greater and blackenthe flours 

 be round and hollow like little bells, of a white 

 colour : the root is black without,white within, 

 and very flimy. * This differs no way from the 

 former but only in the colour of the flouywica 

 isyellowifhorwhlte, when as the other is red- 



difh or purple, t . . 



3 There is another kind of Comfrey whi<* 

 hath leaues like the former,fauing that they bee 

 ktibr : the ftalks are rough and tendentbe Hours 

 be like rhe former, but that they be of an oue - 

 worn yellow colour : the roots are chick* inor , 

 blacke wi thousand tuberous, * which intne u 



re not expreffed fo large a nd knobby 



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