132 POPULAR FIELD BOTANY. 
The flowers grow in a drooping spike, and the corolla is 
whitish, and often purple. There is another species, but 
it is rare in England, Symphytum tuberosum. It differs 
from the last principally in the leaves; the upper ones are 
only a little decurrent, larger and broader, and the stem 
simple, the former being branched. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
CoROLLIFLOR&. APOCYNE. 
VINCA. (PERIWINKLE.) 
Generic Character. Calyx divided into five. Corolla salver- 
shaped (that is, flat), the segments cut obliquely. The petals, 
in the bud, twisted spirally. 
Vinca masor and minor. Greater and lesser Periwinkle. 
This well-known garden plant is scarcely reckoned wild. 
The major is found in woods and thickets, but has been 
originally thrown from gardens. The mznor with blue and 
white flowers, is said to be decidedly wild in hedges and 
banks in Devonshire. 
