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  • Symphytum Officinale (Comfrey)
  • Comfrey (Symphytum sp.): entire flowering plant with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Comfrey (Symphytum asperrimum): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Comfrey (Symphytum officinale L.): flowering stem with separate leaf and rootstock. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Comfrey (Symphytum tuberosum L.): entire flowering plant with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Four flowering plants, including a cowslip (Primula veris), comfrey (Symphytum officinale) and a bulrush (Scirpus species). Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.
  • Prunella vulgaris L. Lamiaceae Self Heal, Carpenter’s Herb, Sicklewort, Consolida minor. Distribution: Europe. Culpeper (1650): ‘See Bugle. So shall I not need to write the same thing twice, the vertues being the same.’ Under Bugle he writes: ‘Bugula. Bugle or middle Comfrey ... excellent for falls or inward bruises, for it dissolves congealed blood, profitable for inward wounds, helps the rickets and other stoppings of the Liver, outwardly it is of wonderful force in curing wounds and ulcers, though festered, as also gangrenes and fistulas, it helps broken bones and dislocations. To conclude, let my countrymen esteem it as a Jewel...’ Bugle is Ajuga reptans which has the same creeping habit, but is in another genus. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.