Rose lances

Gharavi, Lance. "Dying to know a new translation and anagogic investigation of Aleksandr Blok s "The rose and the cross" (Russia)." PhD thesis, University of Kansas, 2000. 

Composition for lances. Yellow saltpeter 16 parts, meal powder 16, sulfur 4, amber 4, and colophony 3 parts. Rose saltpeter 16 parts, lampblack 1, meal powder 3. White saltpeter 16 parts, sulfur 8, meal powder 4. Blue saltpeter 16 parts, antimony (sulfide) 8, very fine zinc filings 4. Green saltpeter 16 parts, sulfur 6, verdigris 16, and antimony (sulfide) 6 parts. 

Startin JR, Rose M, Wright C, Parker I, Gilbert J (1990), Chemosphere 20 793-798. Surveil-lance of British food for PCDDs and PCDFs"... 

Common comfrey (5. officinale) is an erect, stout, often branched perennial, to 1 m leaves broadly lance shaped middle and upper ones sessile, but at point of insertion extend downward on stalk stalk distinctly winged flowers variable from white or cream, yellowish to rose, pink, or light to dark violet anther about as wide as filament petal lobes recurved calyx segments distinctly lanceolate nutlets smooth occurs in moist grasslands and riv-erbanks most of Europe, is rare in extreme south, naturalized alien in northern Europe eastern North America. 

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