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91. SYMPHYTUM./,. Gen. PL 846. 

 [Greek, 8yviphysis f umon ; from its supposed virtue in uniting, or healing wounds/} 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla tubular-campanulate ; limb with 5 short 

 lobes ; throat vcntricose, closed with 5 lanceolate conniving scales ; tube 

 short. Nut* gibbous, imperforate at base. 





1. S. officinale, L. Leave* ovate-lanceolate, decurrent, someichat 

 rugose ; racemes nodding. Willd. Sp, 1. p, 770. 



Officinal Stkphttpk. Vulgo — Comfrey. Garden Comfrey. 

 Gall .-Grande Consoude. Ger.-Der BeiniveU. Hisp.-Consuelda major* 

 Boot perennial, large, mucilaginous. Stem 2 to 3 feet high, branclud, grooved 

 #r angular, and winged by the decurrence qf th* leaves , hispidly and somcichat 

 rctrorsely pilose. Leaves 8 to 12 inches long, and 3 to 5 inches wide, scabrous, more 

 er less lanceolate, acuminate; the lower ones pet iol ate, upper ones sessile, decuiTcni 

 Tlacemes very hispid, without bracts, rattier crowded, noddi?ig, and somewhat cur- 

 ved inward. Calyx-sogments lanreolate, erect, bristly-hispid. Corolla yellowish 

 irhitc, rarely purplish ; limb with 5 short revolute teeth, or lobes ; throat ventricose, 

 closed by 5 lan-eolate scales, which are glandular-'ienlate on the murgin. Style a 

 little longer than the corolla. Nuts gibbous, angular, acuminate, blackish and shi- 

 fting. 



Hab. Gardens', frequent . Fl. June. Fr. August. 



Obs. This is frequently cultivated as a medicinal plant, and the root used, in 

 popular practice, as a remedy for wowuls and internal complaints. It doubtless 

 possesses the virtues of a mucilage; and may, peradvenlure, be almost as 

 sovereign as ^Panymceti.for an inward bruise"! It U the only species of the gt- 

 tC/s, known in the U. States. 



f f Seeds fixed to the Style, or central column. 



92. ECHINOSPERMUM. Lehm. 

 [Or. Echinos, Hedgehog, & Sperma, Seed ; the fruit being covered with prickles.} 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla somewhat salverform ; throat closed by 5 

 small connivent scales. Nuts cchinate, compressed, or angular, fixed 

 to a central column. 



1. E. tirgixicux, Lehm. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; ra^ 



cemes divaricate ; fruit densely covered with uncinate prickles. Beck 



Hot. p. 254. 



Myosotis virginiana, Willd. Sp. 1. p. 748. Mx. Am. 1. p. 129. 



Vers. Syn. 1. p. 157. Ait. Ken. I. p. 286. Muhl. Catal. p. 19. 2'ursh^ 



Am. lip. 134. JSTutt. Gcju I. p. 112. Bart. Phil. I. p. 101. Ell. Sk 



1. p. 225. Bijel. BosU p. 73. Florul. Cestr. p. 24. 



'Itochelie virginiana. Torr. Fl. I. p. 209. Kjusd. Comp. p. 102. Eat. 



Man. p. 307. 



Vjiuh niAW Eci:cKosPii»*v*r. Vulgo— Beggar's Lice, 

 •itwt biennial? Stem2io4 feet high, hairy, divaricately branched at summit* 

 AeJf es 3 ^ 4 inches long, and an inch to an inch and half wide, oblong-lanceolate- 

 *t$ ovftte-lancfiolate, acul* ai each end, scabrous; lower ones petiolate, upper 

 V*ft* sabsessile. Racemes terminating the branches, mostly dichotomous, brae- 

 < T£3T<*; je#ce& about ixs lon£ as the fruit, finally reflcjceuV Calyx^egm^its lance* 



