South Australia.—

Dr. Schomburgk reports from Adelaide:—"Prickly Comfrey has again been a thorough failure, and it is now a fact that this plant is of little use, at least on the South Australian plains."

"Prickly Comfrey" has been identified by Mr. Baker with a plant long known as naturalised in the neighbourhood of Bath, from which locality specimens are to be found in herbaria in this country under the name of Symphytum asperrimum.

The accompanying plate is borrowed from the Botanical Magazine, where, under Tab. 6466, an account of its botanical characers will be found. The knowledge of this plant and of its capabilities being now widely diffused, it will rot be necessary to refer to it again.