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Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 
Lib. i, 
X 4 Simphytumfxyjum Sor/.ginis fiicic. 
Borage- floured Comfrey. 
grow vpon the (hikes are long, broad, rough, and 
pricking vvirhall, fomething hairie, and being 
handled make the hands itch ■ very like in co- 
lour and roughnes tothofeof Borage, but longer, 
and fliarpe pointed, as be the leaues of Elecam- 
pane : from out the wings of the ftalkes appeare 
the floures orderly placed, long, hollow within, of 
alight red colour: after them groweth the feed, 
which is blacke.The root is long and thick,blacke 
without, white within, hailing in it a clammy 
juice, in which root confl fteth the vertue. 
2 The great Comfrey hath rough hairy flalks, 
and long rough leaues much like the garden Bu- 
glofle , but greater and blacker : the floures be 
round and hollow like little bells, of a white co- 
lour:theroot is blacke without, and white with- 
in, and very flimy. f: This diifereth no way from 
the former but onely in the colour of the floure, 
which is yellowifli or white, when as the other is 
reddilh or purple. £ 
3 There is another kinde of Comfrey which 
hath leaues like the former , failing that they be 
lefTer : the (talks are rough and tender : the floures 
be like the former, but that they be of an ouerworn 
yellow colour : the roots are thicke, fhort, blacke 
without, and tuberous , X which in the figure are 
not exprefled fo, large and knobby as they ought 
tohauebeen. t 
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