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nclies higli 
bef< 
with feveral fcaly leaves, of a browmfli pink 
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and clofely embracing the ftem ; the leaves are obtufely heart 
fhaped, angular, irregularly indented, above of a bright green coloui 
beneath white, downy, and ftand upon long roundifh radical foot 
ftalks 
the flowers 
compound 
g 
and yellow ; the jfli 
the difc are hermaphrodite, tubul 
the limb is cut into five acute 
fc> 
which curl outwardly ; the antherse, by uniting, form a 
fe 
tube, but their apices are fep 
and pointed 
germen is fhort 
the ftyle filiform, longer than the antherae, and the fi;igma is 
round : thtjlorets at the circumference are female, tubular at the bafe 
and the limb is long and linear ; the germen is oblong ; the ftigma 
bifid ; the feed is oblong, and of a pale-brown colour, crowned with 
fimple down ; the calyx is cylindrical, and the leaflets or fquamse are 
It is common in moifl 
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oblong, pointed, and 
ely 
ayey pi 
and the flowers appear fometime before the 
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in 
March or April 
The fenfible 
jt 
of Tuflilag 
very inconfiderable 
has 
gh mucilag 
tafte. but no remarkable fmell. The 
have always been of great fame, as pofTeflTing demulcent and pedoral 
virtues ; of courfe 
efleemed ufeful in pulmonary confump 
Medicina Gymnaft 
b 
Fuller, in his 
recommends Coltsfoot as a valliable medicine 
coughs, afthmas, and in various catarrhal fymptom 
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fcrophula ; and Dr. Cullen, who does 
allow it any power 
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demulcent and expedorant, found it ferviceable in fome flrumous 
affedions.*' It may be ufed 
given in the way of infufion 
which liquorice-root or honey, may be a ufeful addition 
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* We might, without exception, cite every v/riter upon the Materia Medlca. Percival 
found it alfo ufeful in hedic diarrheas. EfTavs Med. & Exper. vol. 2. p. 224. Cartheufer 
advifes it to be 
the roots of Dandelion. Mat. Med 
The 
Nor. 1736 
given Witn 
liberally drunk, has been beneficial in calculous complaints. 
p. 194. ^ p. 84. ' 
"■ Every part of the plant has been medicinally employed for the fame purpofe, but more 
ufually the leaves, and thefe are the principal ingredient in the Britlfh herb tobacco.^ It 
IS remarkable, that the fmoking of this plant has the recommendation of Diofcorides, 
Galen, Pliny, Boyle, &c. Et adhuc hodie plebs in fuecia inftar tabaci contra tuffim 
fu2-it. Lin. Flor. Suec. 
P 
ny 
efficacious remedy— in fmgulos hauftus, paflurr guftandum eft. lib. 26. c. 6. p. 65 
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