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This is a highly ornamental plant, having the brilliant
blossoms of Symphytum asperrimum united to the more delicate
habit of S. orientate, between which one might imagine it to
be a spontaneous hybrid, so completely does it combine the
characters of these two species.
It is found abundantly in moist shady places on the banks
of the River Terek between Mosdok and Kisljar, and on the
borders of woods throughout the greater part of the northern
promontory of Caucasus, flowering in May and June.
From its dwarf habit and the beauty of its flowers it is
admirably adapted to ornament front borders, for which
purpose the large and coarse habit of S. asperrimum renders
it unsuited.
Drawn in the beginning of May last at the Chelsea Botanic
Carden, where the plant had been introduced from the
Imperial Botanic Carden at St. Petersburg.
The generic name alludes to the marvellous consolidating
virtues which the plant was formerly supposed to possess,
and is derived from the Creek word avycpvais, signifying
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1. Corolla laid open to shew the stamens and appendages. 2. Pistil.
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