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TLmlitb Bed 
Comfrey with Purple Flowers. 
Tuberous 
Qbttrjrey 
/ third Kind, has a large Tuberous or Km 
bed Root which Branches it f elf out into other Thi 
and Tuberous parts, more Tuberous or Knobbed i 
wards their ends, with fever al Fibres adjoining, bla, 
on . ,e outjjde, and yel/owijh within, replenish, 
withfuoh Vifcous, Glutinous or Clammy Juice as t, 
others, but not altogether fo flinty : The Roots a. 
u as J en , art( d ea fi e to be broken, or more eaj 
than the others , and fpre ad themf elves under grout 
in like manner . Front this Root rifles tip a hair 
crefied, or cornered Stalk, not fo high as the forme 
with f mailer heaves, and more thinly Jet tbereo, 
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by fome Solidago, Of coco! Ion (a Bone Soderer ) and by 
Seri bon ius Largus, Inula Rujlica : and in Eng/ifh, 
Comfrey. 
II. The Kinds. Authors make feveral forts of 
Comfrey ■, but the three following are only, or chief 1 
ly to be had in England, viz. i. Symphttum majrn 
vulgar e, Our Common Great Comfrey. 2. Symphi- 
tum majtis fore pur pur eo. Our Great Comfrey with 
purple flowers. 3. Symphitum Tubcrcfum, Tuber- 
ous Comfrey, or Comfrey with knobbed Roots 
Ilf The Defcnptions. The flrji of theje has Root s 
which are large and long, great and thick , and Thread- 
ing it Jelf out into great, long,, and thick Branch, 
under ground, black on the out fide, and whitijh 
within, Jhort and eafie to break, and full of a Glu- 
tinous or Clammy Juice, having little 'or no tajfe in 
it. Front this Root fprings forth divers very large 
and hairy dark green Leaves, lying on the ground 
Jo hairy or prickly, that if they touch any tender 
part of the Hand or Face, or other part of the Skin 
it will caufe it to itch or tingle. From among, theje 
Leaves rifles up a Stalk, two or three feet high, 
hollow and cornered, which is a/fo very hairy, ha- 
ving many fluch like Leaves on it as grow below, but 
lejfer and leffer up to the top, which are long, rough 
pretty broad, and fharp pointed. At the Joints of 
the Stalks, it is divided into many Branches with 
Jome Leaves thereon * and at the ends Jiand many 
Flowers in order, one before, or above another, which 
are fome thing long and hollow, like the finger of a 
Glove, of a pale wbitijh color, after which comes fmalt 
black Seed. 
IV. The fecond Kind in its Roots, Leaves , Stalks, 
Flowers, and manner of growing, is altogether like 
the former •, and differs from it only in this, that 
as to the whole body of the Plant, it is fomewhat 
lejs : and as to the Flowers, that thefe are of a pale 
purple color. 
