856 117- Symphytum. 31. BORAGINEiE. PL ex. cor. 
2. Symphytum officinale. Shop comfrey. 
Stem branched, above winged ; leaves ovate, lanceolate, 
narrower at the bottom, decurrent, above very rough, be-* 
neath hirsute ; calyx pointed, hirsute. 
Symphytum magnum, Raii Syn. 230, 1. 
Consolida major, Ger. era. 805, 2. 
Symphytum majus vulgare, Park . 523. 
Symphytum officinale, Lin.S. P. 195. 
Great comfrey. Great consound. Knit-back. Black-wort. 
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. 
0. purpureum . Corolla purple or reddish ; calyx expand- 
ing, shorter than the tube of the corolla. 
Censollda major flore purpureo, Ger. em. 806, 1. 
Symphytum patens, Sibthorp Ft. Ox. 70. 
Symphytum Behenium, Schmidt Ft. Bohem. 3,212. 
XIII. 118. EC I HUM. Dioscorides. Viper s-bugloss. 
Calyx 5-parted; corolla funnelshape or bellshape; mouth 
enlarged, naked; lobes mostly unequal; huts 4, 1-celled, 
topshape, rough, imperforate at bottom ; gynobasis small, 
fiot.—Stem herbaceous. 
1. Echium Italicum. Italian viper s-bugloss. 
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. 
Echium q. Lycopsis, Raii Syn . 227,2. 
Lycopsis, Park. 519. 
Echium Italicum, Lin. S. P. 2.0 0. 
Echium aspcrrimum, Buberst. FI. Tour. 1, 135. 
Echium altissimum, Jacq. FI. Austr. 5, 35. 
Echium lineari folium, Mcench. Meth. Supp. 149. 
Wall bugloss. 
Sandy grounds, Jersey ; biennial? July. 
Stem simple or many, upright, 4 feet high, spotted with 
dark purple; flowers sessile, imbricate, 1 -sided, in many 
spikelets ; corolla whitish. 
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