34^ BORAGINACEAE 



The white-flowered plant, mentioned by Bobart, I have never seen. 

 Cynoglossum officinale occurs in all the bordering counties. 



[C. MONTANUM, Hojer in Linn. Amoen. Acad. iii. 402 (1764) et Lam. Fl. Fr. ii. 277. 

 C. germanicum, Jacq. Obs. PI. Crit. ii. 31 (1767). C. sylvaticum, Haenke, in 

 Jacq. Coll. ii. 77 (1788). 



Top. Bot. 329. Syme, E. B. vii. 119, t. 11 19 (but not a good, figure). Nyman, 

 521. Fl. Oxf. 206. 



Is recorded for Oxfordshire, Surrey, and Gloucestershire, and is not 

 unlikely to be found on the Greensand in Berkshire, as it occurs on that 

 formation in Oxfordshire.] 



ASPERUGO, Linn. Gen. n. 173 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 54). 



**A. PRocuMBENs, Linn. Sp. PI, 138 (1753). German Madwort. 



A. vulgaris^ J. R. H. 135, Eay, Syn. 228. 

 Top. Bot. 328. Syme, E. B. vii. 120, t. 1120. Nyman, 523. 

 Alien. Waste ground. Rare. A. June-October. 

 First found in Berkshire by the author in 1890. 



2. Oek. On waste ground at Grandpont. See Rep. of Bot. Excli. Cluh 

 (1892), 379. By the railway at Didcot. 



4. Kennet. By the railway at Newbury, Weaver. 



Aspervgo has been found in Oxfordshire and Surrey, but it does not appear 

 to be permanentlj^ established. 



SYMPHYTUM, Linn. Gen. n. 170 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 56. 

 S. officinale, Linn. Sp. PI. 136 (1753V Comfrey. 



Top. Bot. 327. S3^me, E. B. vii. 114, tt. 1115-6. Nyman, 509. Fl. Oxf. 200. 

 Native. Paludal. Sides of rivers and brooks, marshes, ditches, &c. 



Common in the low-lying districts. P. May- August. 

 First record. Consolida major /lore riibro, by Redding, and SympMjtum 

 fl. Ceneritio, everywhere about Reading, Merretfs Pinax, 1666. About 

 Oxford, abundantly, MS. in Lyte's Herball, 1660. With Uredo 

 symphyti, DC, on it about Oxford, Baxt. Phaen. Bot. n. loi (1835). 

 * The Comfrey appears in great abundance on the river-bank, 

 rearing its bold form above the lowlier herbage. When in blossom, 

 decorated with the cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers, varying in 

 every shade of colour from white to deep purple, the Comfrey is one 

 of the most ornamental among the many floral beauties that grace the 

 waterside,' Hall's Book of the Thames, 24. 



The Comfrey is too frequent by all the larger streams in the county 

 to need a recital of localities. It is particularly abundant in the small 

 eyots in the Thames and in the marshy meadows of the Kennet and 

 Loddon districts. The flowex's, as Mrs. Hall remarks, are of varying 

 tints of colour — pure white, greenish or yellowish white, ashy grey, 

 lilac, purple, and dull and bright red ; these forms may be gi-ouped 

 under the name/, colorata. 



The purple or reddish-flowered plant is often called var. patens 

 (Sibth. Fl. Ox. 70, 1794). Sibthorp described S. patens as a species with 



