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• Known as far back as 400 B.C.E. Greece, comfrey is an extraordinary plant whose name derives from the Latin conferva, meaning "water plant healer. Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles
• Along the path there were fascinating details, composed of the manifold greenery which revels in damp heat, ferns, mosses, confervae, fungi, trailers, shading tiny rills which dropped down into grottoes feathery with the exquisite Trichomanes radicans, or drooped over the rustic path and hung into the river, and overhead the finely incised and almost feathery foliage of several varieties of maple admitted the light only as a green mist. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
• Et fi qualiter fuperius legitur, a nos vobis non fuerit adimpletum & con - fervatum, & deb alio toco ad babitandum, promittimus nos, qui ita fi* nos non confervaverit, una eum noflris heredibus componere tibi & fuccefforibus tuis attri Soledos viginti/ Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi, sive, Dissertationes de moribus, ritibus, religione, regimine, magistratibus, legibus, studiis literarum, artibus, lingua, militia, nummis, principibus, libertate, servitute, foederibus, aliisque faciem & mores Italic
• The inveterate antagonism of these black precipices to all strugglers for life is in no way more forcibly suggested than by the paucity of tufts of grass, lichens, or confervae on their outermost ledges. A Pair of Blue Eyes
• These are minute cylindrical confervae, in bundles or rafts of from twenty to sixty in each. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
• A clammy conferva covers everything except the mosaics upon tribune, roof, and clerestory, which defy the course of age. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
• At the latter end of last season, as was formerly noticed, the beacon was painted white, and from the bleaching of the weather and the sprays of the sea the upper parts were kept clean; but within the range of the tide the principal beams were observed to be thickly coated with a green stuff, the conferva of botanists. Records of a Family of Engineers
• Besides a rack for kitchen utensils, there is only a stand on which are six large brown dishes with food for sale — salt shell-fish, in a black liquid, dried trout impaled on sticks, sea slugs in soy, a paste made of pounded roots, and green cakes made of the slimy river confervae, pressed and dried — all ill-favoured and unsavoury viands. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
• In the case of the prawn-like crabs, their movements were as coinstantaneous as in a regiment of soldiers; but this cannot happen from anything like voluntary action with the ovules, or the confervae, nor is it probable among the infusoria. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
• I confess, however, there is a very great difficulty in imagining any one spot to be the birthplace of the millions of millions of animalcula and confervae: for whence come the germs at such points? Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle