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not only in reference to this, but to all pernicious weeds. It would save 
a vast deal of vexatious labor at a future day. 
2. SYM’PHYTUM, Tournef. Comrrey. 
[Greek, Symphyo, to join ; from its supposed healing virtues.] 
sen tubular = 5 short spreading teeth ; the throat inflated and 
osed by 5 linear-awl-shaped scales. Stamens included ; anthers elongated. 
Nutlets smooth, ovate, fixed by a large fctlowed base. Coarse peren- 
wake Mpheatie niucilaginous roots and yellowish white flowers in nodding 
na racem 
S. officina “le, L. winged above by the decurrence of the sessile 
Til, oo leaves preciosa nery tapediine to a petiole, the upper 
narrow 
joe SYMPHYTUM. oe 
-3 feet high, branched, grooved or angular, and hispidly pilose. Leaves 
inches long, rugose ; ‘petioles of the coe force 3-5 inches in length. Recona aitah 
bracts, th the flowers rather crowded. Corolla rarely purplish ; scales of the throat pero 
Ghedene. and naturalized in some places. Native of Europe. June. 
Obs. Formerly used as a rome for “internal wounds,” and still has 
some reputation in diseases of the Iungs and bowels. The root is the 
mparts .a strong eaprony to _ and has a slight 
astringency, pe is at least harmless if not efficac 
3. LITHOSPER’MUM, Tournef. amid 
[Greek, Lithos, a stone, and Sperma, seed ; from the stony hardness of its seeds.] _ 
Corolla funnel-form or salver-form ; limb 5-lobed ; throat seme or with 
5 small gibbous projections. Anthers along subsessile, in uded. Akenes 
bony, smooth or rugose, fixed by the 
ls L arven’se, L. Hispidly pilose ; ee lance-linear, rather acute, 
oe een akenes rugose-pitt ted. 
PERMUM. Stone-weed. Gromwell. 
i ay des champs. Germ. Acker Steinsame. 
12-18 inches high, generally much branched from the root } 
odten branched near the summit. Leaves 1-2 inches eee lower ones often eblame : 
ceolate and obtuse. Flowers axillary, solitary, su 
destitute of folds or appendages. Akenes Kod acuminate, rugose, brown ras mature. 
Grain-fields and pastures : introduced. Native of Europe. Fl. May. Fr. Jane. Pir ss 
Obs. A worthless little foreigner, more noticeable for its frequen WC 
rtance, 
the doctrine fanciful th of the early days 
the part of the body which they wane to affect—this, and other 
see: pnp Sel, rh cu n 
stony-like appearance 
re for the stone in the bladder, from the 
of its 5 Whenee one ee 
