S56 117. Symphytum. SI. BORAGINE^. PL ex. cor. 



2. Symphytinn officinale. Shop cowfrey. 



Stem branched, above winged ; leaves ovate, lanceolate, 

 narrovt^er at the bottom, decurrent, above very rough, be- 

 neath hh'sutej CO /?/x pointed, hirsute. 



Symphytum magnum, Rait Si/n. 230, 1. 



Consolida major, Ger. em. S05, 2. 



Symphytum majus vulgare, Park. 523. 



Symphytum officinale, Lin.S, P. 195. 



Great cumfrty. Great consound. Knit-back. Black-tcort. 



Watery places ; perennial ; May. 



Root cylindrical, black ; stems many, 3 feet high ; leaves 

 waved; root-leaves ovate; racemes terminal, conjugate, 

 1-sided, drooping, becoming upright; corolla bellied, white 

 or yellowish. — Root astringent, glutinous, mucilaginous ; 

 the decoction extracts the colour from seed lac ; leaves fla- 

 vour cakes and panada ; shoots a good pot-herb. 



(3. purpureurn. Corolla purple or reddish; calyx expand- 

 ing, shorter than the tube of the corolla. 



Censolula major flore piirpiireo, Ger. em. 806, 1. 

 Symphytum patens, SiWiorp Ft, Ox. 70. 

 Symphytum Beheniiim, Schiuidt Ft. Bohem. 3,212. 



XIII. 118. ECHIUM. Dioscorides. Viper s-hugloss. 



I Calyx 5-parted; corolla funnelshape or bellshape; mouth 

 enlarged, naked; lobes mostly unequal; nuts 4, 1-celled, 

 topshape, rough, imperforate at bottom ; gynobasis small, 

 flat, — Stem herbaceous. 



1. Echium Itallcum. Italian vipers-hugloss. 



Stem simple, stiff'; leaves linear, lanceolate, strigose, 

 hispid; racemes very long, spike-like; spikelets 2-cut, 

 short; flowers close; lobes of the corolla nearly equal; sta- 

 mens twice as long as the corolla. 



Fxliiura q. Lyropsis, Itaii Syn. 227,2. 



l^ycopsis. Park. 5\9. 



J'ichium Italicum, I. in. S. P. 200. 



i:!cliium aspi-rriinum, litilisrsl. Fl. Taur. 1, \Hb. 



Eiliium altissimum, J acq. Fl. yliintr. 3,3j. 



ischium liuearifolium, Mu-'ic/i. Melh, Supp. 149. 



Jf^alll/tigloss. 



Sandy grounds, Jersey ; biennial? July. 



Stem simple or many, upright, 4 I'eet liigh, spotted with 

 dark purple; //o^tew sessile, imbricjite, 1 -sided, in many 

 spikelets; co/o/Za whitish. 



