S62 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Symphytum. 



Root fibrous. Stems 9 to 12 inches high^ simple, erect, leafy, hairy 

 Leaves ovate, hairy, scarcely warty; paler beneath; mostly 

 speckled with white on the upper side, whence they have been 

 thought to resemble the human lungs, and were therefore sup- 

 posed good for coughs : the lower ones stand on long, bordered 

 footstalks. Clusters terminal, corymbose, erect, with a bractea 

 or two at the lower part. Fl. of a violet blue ; reddish in the 

 bud. Seeds brown, or blackish, downy. 



2. P. angustifolia. Narrow-leaved Lungwort. 

 Leaves lanceolate. 



P. angustifolia. Lhm. Sp. PL 194, Willd. v. 1. 768. Comp. 34. 



Engl. Bot. V. 23. t. 1628. With. 228. Fl. Dan. t. 483. Park. 



Parad. 248. t.25\.f.2. 

 P. n. 598. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 265. 



P. angustifolia, rubente cseruleo flore. Bauh. Pin. 260. 

 P, angustifolia cseruleo flore. Clus. Pannon. 673. /. 674. Bauh. 



Hist. V. 3. 596./. Ger. Em. 808./. 3. 

 P. foliis Echii. Ger. Em. SOS. f. 2. Raii Sijn.226. 

 P. alpina, angusto folio. Bocc. Mus. 110. t.86. 



In woods and thickets, rare. 



In a wood by Holbury house, in the New Forest, Hampshire. 

 Mr. Goodyer ; Ger. Em. Among the ruins of the monastery of 

 Maes-glas, or Green-field, Flintshire, from whence it was sent 

 by Mr. R. H. Waring of Leeswood. Mr. E. Robson. In a wood be- 

 tween Newport and Ride, in the Isle of Wight, Mr. Turner and 

 Mr. Borrer. 



Perennial. May, June, 



About twice as tall as the former, from which it difi"ers in the lan-f 

 ceolate shape of its leaves, especially the radical ones, which are 

 a span in length, tapering at each end, seldom spotted. The 

 limb of the corolla is shorter, with rounder segments. Calyx, 

 when in fruit, bell-shaped, and much dilated in width, without 

 prominent angles, its stalk bent downwards, which seems not to 

 be the case with P. officinalis. Seeds large, black, downy. 



These are the only species of real Pidmonaria hitherto discovered, 

 whatever may become of the rest, some of whicli, as our mari- 

 tima, and the suffruticosa of Italy, have the calyj;: of a Lithosper- 

 mum. 



92. SYMPHYTUM. Comfrey. 



Linn. Gen. 7&. Juss. 131. H.Br. 218. Tourn. t. 5 6. Lam. t. 93. 

 Gtertn. t. 67. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 87. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, in 5 deep, acute, straight segments, 

 permanent. Cor. of 1 petal, bell-shaped ; tube about as 



