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A DICTIONARY OF 
Columbine, Feathered. A frequent book-name for Tludidrum aqui- 
legifolium, L., an old-fashioned garden plant, which Parkinson 
(Parad. 274) calls Tufted Colombine, and explains the name by- 
saying that ‘ the leaues are both for colour and forme so like unto 
colombines leaues .... that they may easily deceive one that doth 
not marke them advisedly .... the flowers .... are nothing but a 
number of threads, made like unto a small round tuft.’ dies., N. Yks. 
Comfrey (in Bullein Cumphory, and in his Index Campherie). 
Symphytum officinale, L. — Lyte ; dies, (gardens) ; E. Bord. Bot. E. 
Borcl. ; Sal. ; Prior, jo. 51. The name comfrey, though now generally 
understood as referring only to SymjBiyfum, had formerly a more 
general signiflcation, and, like consound, included Beilis perennis, L. 
Thus in Prompt. Parv. we have ‘ Cowmfory, herbe. Consolida major, 
et minor dicitur daysy.’ 
Comfrey, Middle. Ajnga reptans, L. — Lyte. 
Comfrey, Saracen’s. Senecio saracenicus, L. — Lyte. 
Comfrey, Spotted. Pidmonaria officincdls, L. — Ger. Prior, p. 51. 
Comfrey-Consound. Symphytum offffcmale, L. — Ger. 
Con. See Cean. 
Cone. The usual name for the fruit of the species of Finns. ‘ In 
Latine conus, in Englishe a cone.’ — Lyte. 
Coney Parsley. Anthrisciis sylvestris, Hoffm. — Suss. 
Confery (A.-IST.). Beilis qjerennis, L. — Prompt. Parv. Hal. IVr. 
Conies. ‘ Fir cones.’ — Kent. 
Conquerors. The fruit of JEscidus Hippocastannm, L. — Ches., 
where children thread them on strings, and strike them against each 
other. The one remaining unbroken is the ‘ conqueror.’ 
Consound, or Consoud. L. consolida, ‘ quia tanta prmstantia est, ut 
carnes, dum coquuntur, conglutinet addita, unde nomen.’ — Pliny, 
xxvii. 6. A name given in the middle ages to several different plants. 
Prior, p. 51. Cockayne (iii. 319) has ‘ Consolde, consolida, a medimval 
term for (1) major, Symplujtuin officinale; (2) media, Spiroea Ulmaria; 
(3) minor, Beilis perennisd — The middle consolde is rather Ajuya 
reptans, L. The principal of the Consounds were the Comfrey 
Consound, Symphytum officinale, L. (Ger.) ; the Middle C., Ajuya 
\ reptans, L. (Lyte); and the Less C., Beilis perennis, L. (Grete 
Herball). There were also the King’s Consound, Delphinium Con- 
solida, L. (Lyte), and the Saracen’s C., Senecio saracenicus, L. (Lyte). 
For a recent instance of the ‘consolidating virtue’ of Symphytum 
officinale, Cockayne, i. (preface, liii.), maybe consulted; that oi JMlis 
has been referred to under Ban-wort, which see. 
Conval-Lily. Convallaria majalis, L. — Ger. A translation of its 
old name, Lilium convallium. Prior, p. 52. 
Convolvulus. Gonvolvidus sepium, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. 
This Latin name is one of those which has been completely adopted 
into popular use. 
