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divided into three or five lobes, serrate. Large and leafy stipules. 

 A shrub or small tree, freely branching. Perennial. May, June. 

 Hedges and woods. 



COMFREY, SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE. Nat. Ord., Boraginacex. 

 Calyx five-partite, valvate in bud. Corolla monopetalous, regular, 

 five-cleft, tubular, largest a little below the middle, purple or yellowish- 

 white. Stamens five, inserted in the tube of the corolla; filaments 

 very short. Style slender ; stigma capitate. Scales alternating with 

 stamens. Inflorescence a forked scorpoid cyme; flowers pendulous 

 on small pedicels. Leaves various: radicals broad and large on 

 long-winged petioles; stem-leaves shortly petioled or sessile, ovate, 

 lanceolate, and very decurrent, rough in texture, hairy, dull green. 

 Stem three feet high, freely branching, angular, rough, winged by 

 the decurrent leaves. River banks and moist ground. May, June. 

 Perennial. 



TOAD-FLAX, LIN ARIA VULGARIS. Nat. Ord., Scrophu- 

 lariaceae. Calyx five-cleft; sepals ovate or lanceolate, small. Corolla 

 monopetalous, personate, spurred ; mouth closed by projecting palate ; 

 spur in a line with the flower. Flower pale yellow, the palate bright 

 orange. Stamens four, attached to tube of corolla. Ovary and capsule 

 having two cells; capsule ovoid. Inflorescence a densely-flowered 

 raceme. Bracts linear. Leaves very numerous, linear-lanceolate, 

 glaucous. Stem erect, one to two feet high. Hedges and waste ground. 

 July, August, September. Perennial. 



WOODY NIGHTSHADE, or BITTER - SWEET, 



SOLAXUM DULCAMARA. Nat. Ord., SolanacecB. Calyx of five divisions. 

 Corolla monopetalous, regular, cleft into five revolute segments, 

 dull purple. Anthers almost sessile, bright yellow, joined into a 

 cone in the centre of the flower round the style ; stamens, inserted 

 into corolla, five, and alternating with its segments. Inflorescence 

 a loose cyme. Berries ovoid, crimson. Leaves varying in form, 

 entire : lower ones lanceolate ; upper ones hastate, petioled. Stems 

 long, flexuous, climbing or straggling. Low-lying hedges and moist 

 thickets. June, July, August. Perennial, but long trailing stems 

 dying off in winter. 



DAFFODIL, NARCISSUS PSEUDO-NARCISSUS. Nat. Ord., Ama- 

 ryllidacece. Perianth tubular, having six spreading ovate or oblong 

 segments as long as the tube, the crown broadly tubular, its edge 



