MAY. Loi 
in Norfolk and Suffolk. It has small, reddish, opposite, 
oblong, blunt leaves. Minute flowers, with no stalks; 
petals white or tipped with rose colour. It is scarcely more 
than an inch high altogether, and is very likely to escape 
observation, though perhaps a gardener may find it trouble- 
some. The use of this diminutive specimen of vegetation 
is, probably, to bind together, by degrees, loose barren sands, 
whole tracts of these seemingly profitless places being 
covered with it, so as to have quite a red tinge. 
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PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
COROLLIFLORZ. BoORAGINACE, 
SYMPHYTUM. (Comrrey.) 
Generic Character. Calyx divided into five. Corolla bell- 
shaped, the throat closed with a cone of scales. 
SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE. Common Comfrey. A very 
handsome plant, frequent by the banks of rivers and watery 
places. It grows two or three feet high, with long, oval, 
rough leaves, narrow at the base, and running down the 
stem on each side; this is called decurrent. Those of the 
root are not so narrow, and have a more decided stalk. 
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