SWEET-SCENTED TUSSILAOE. 299 



SWEET-SCENTED TUSSILAGE. Tassilajo 

 Fragrans, 



A SPECIES OF COLTVFOOT. 



Natural Order Composite Discoideee. Corymhifera, 

 Juss. A Genus of the Syngenesia Polygamic* su- 



ycrjlua Class. 



He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, 

 And whistled as he went, for want of thought . 



That even classical ground produces minds of this 

 description, is instanced in the long-neglected plant 

 of which we are about to speak. Although the 

 Tussilacjo fragrans is a native plant of Italy, it 

 remained in obscurity until the nineteenth century, 

 when M. Villan, of Grenoble, was attracted by its 

 agreeable fragrance at the foot of Mount Pilat, 

 from whence he brought it to perfume the winter 

 gardens of the continent, and it cast its first odour 

 on British shores in the year 1806. As its per- 

 fumed flowers expand in the months of January, 

 February, and March, it cannot fail of being wel- 

 comed amongst us by every lover of sweet smells ; 



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