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The root leaves are stalked, the stem leaves sessile, and the 

 whole plant rough with prickles. Bishop Mant describes the 

 plant as one of the greatest ornaments of June. 



##**** i with mingled hue, 



Of purple, blue, and brilliant red, 



Though spurned beneath the passing tread, 



Prickly and harsh, with tints that pass 



The garden pride The Viper Grass." 



GROMWELL. LITHOSPEEMUM. 



COMMON GROMWELL. Lithospermum officinale. 



Plate 2, fig. 10. 



Rare in Scotland, though common in England, on dry, waste 

 ground, growing more than a foot high. Directly known by its 

 small yellow flowers, and its very hard and very white, smooth, 

 and shining seeds. The stem is branched. The leaves are 

 lanceolate, rough above, and hairy on the under side. 



O. S. Corn or White Gromwell Creeping or Purple Cromwell and 

 Sea-side Gromwell, both the two last are very rare. 



COMFREY. SYMPHYTUM. 



COMMON COMFREY. Symphytum officinale. 



Plate 2, fig. II. 



Stem winged, leaves wrinkled, lanceolate, waved. Flowers 

 in two-fingered bunches, yellowish white, or else purplish in 

 color, swelled out and divided into five sharp lobes, between 

 every two of which is a stamen shorter than the lobes, and 

 between these stamens appear five sharp -pointed teeth that 

 partly close up the mouth of the flower. The root is long and 

 thick. The stem is winged. The leaves rough, wrinkled, 

 running down the stem, and waved at the edges ; those only 

 from the root have stalks. It grows two or three feet high ; 

 remains in flower all the summer ; and is common in ditches. 



O. S. Tuberous-rooted Comfrey, common in Scotland, but rare in 

 England. 



BUGLOSS. LYCOPSIS. 

 SMALL BUGLOSS. Lycopsis arvensis. 



Plate 2, fig. 12. 



Common on hedge-banks and corn fields. The whole plant 

 is upright, branched, and very rough all over, except the corolla 



