Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909 · Philadelphia, G. W. Jacobs · leaf 283
cinale—is abundant in most countrydistricts, growing luxuriantly by the sides of streams,and attaining to a height of some three or four feet. A striking similarity is seen in the,names by which it isnow known throughout Europe, it being in France chicoree,in Italy the cicorea, in Portugal… … ROSE-ROOT and FOXGLOVE. To face page 212. OUR OOMFREYS 213 The leaves are very large and, when young, form agood culinary vegetable, while the flowers are of apale dull yellow ordinarily, but with a strong in-clination to vary to purple. The tuberous comfrey—S. tuberosum—has its flowers somewhat…
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