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In woods and bushy places, and by the sides of streams. Rare m 

 England, Avhere it is said to occur near Dedliam in Essex, and in 

 various other places, but is not certainly native south of North Wales 

 and Yorkshire. In the south of Scotland it is rather common, but 

 does not extend north of Moray, Banff, Aberdeen, and Argyle. In 

 Ireland it has occurred in Ulster and Cork, but is believed not to be 

 native. 



England, Scotland, [Ireland.] Perennial. Spring, early Summer. 



Rootstock fleshy, branching, the divisions somewhat resembling 

 the tubers of the Jerusalem ai'tichoke (but smaller), pale brown, pro- 

 ducing at the apex stems, but no tufts of radical leaves, as in S. 

 officinale. The stems are 1 to 2 feet high, flexuous, much less winged 

 and less hairy than in S. officinale; the leaves taper towards the base 

 as well as the apex, and are more rugose, much less rough, and with 

 the hairs on the under side of the veins much fewer and shorter; 

 the calyx segments are longer, narrower, and less bristly. Corolla 

 about f inch long, ochreous, but rather deeper in colour than in S, 

 officinale. The plant is of a paler and yellower green, and the 

 lower leaves have turned brown or withered before the flowers ex- 

 pand. The mature fruit I have not seen, but, according to M.Godron, 

 it is tubercular and contracted above the base. 



Tuberous Comfrey. 



Freiifh, Consoudu tiibereuse. German, dickrmirzeUye Wallwurz. 



Tribe II.— CYNOGLOSSEJ]:. 



Achenes 4, all free, much depressed, inserted upon a convex or 

 conical torus. 



GENUS IX.— G YNOGLOSSUM. Tournef. 



Calyx 5 -partite. Corolla regular, salvershaped-funnelshaped ; 

 throat closed by 5 obtuse scales ; liml) concave, 5-lobcd. Stamens 

 included. Nucules triangular-roundish, depressed, generally muricated 

 with hooked spines, attached by their inner edge to the shortly- 

 conical receptacle, and forming a flattened 4-sided pyramid. 



Softly hairy herbs, rarely undershrubs. Flowers in scorpioid 

 racemes. Corolla blue, purple, red, or white. 



The origin of tlie name of this genus of plants is Kviav, a dog, and yXixran, a 

 tongue, from its fancied likeness. 



