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CINERARIA TUSSILAGINIS. COLT’S-FOOT 
CINERARIA. 
SEE EEE EEE EK EEE EE EE 
Class and Order. 
SyNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Comrosirz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Receptaculum nudum. Pappus simplex. Involucrum 
polyphyllum, zquale. | 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Cineraria * Tussilaginis ; floribus laxe paniculatis, foliis 
reniformi-cordatis multangulis subtus albido-tomen- 
_ tosis, petiolis basi auritis. oa Hee i 
Crnerari Tussilaginis. L’ Hérit. Sert. Angl.n. 26. Willd. 
Sp. Pl.v. 3. p. 2078. Spreng. Syst. Veget.v. 3. p. 548. 
Descr. Our specimen of this plant is little more than a 
foot high, rising from a densely fibrous, apparently annual 
root. Stem erect, almost entirely glabrous, rounded, 
branched almost from the base. Leaves few and mostly 
radical, between cordate and reniform, membranaceous, 
angled and toothed, green above, white and very tomen- 
tose beneath, where it is likewise marked with conspicuous 
and rather prominent veins; petiole slightly downy, dis- 
tinctly auricled at the base. The stem-leaves are sessile, 
so that the auricles and leaf combine, and they become 
more ovate upwards, gradually passing into rather large, 
on both sides glabrous, bractee at the forking of the panicle. 
ers large, handsome, disposed in a lax, somewhat 
corymbose 
* From Cineres, ashes, from the pale ashen hue of the underside of the 
leaves of many species. 
