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TUSSILAGO FARFARA. COLTSFOOT. 
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SYNONYMA. Petasites scapo unifloro, flore radiato, Hal. Stirp. 
Helo. n. 143. Bechium, Dodon. Pempt. 586. Tussilago vulgaris 
Bawh. Pin. 197. Zannich. Venez. t. 266. Tussilago. Clus. Hist. 
f ¥40. Camer. Epit. 590. Gerard, 811. Parkinson, 1220. Raii 
Hist. Plant, 259. Tussilago Farfara. Curtis Flor. Lond. Relhan. 
Flor. Cantab. Withering.719 Huds. 364. Smith. 878. En. 
Be - 429. Bax * Dioscorid. Hippoc. &c. 
“Cla s Syngenesia. Ord. Polygamia Superflua. Z. Gen? Pl. 952... 
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‘Ess. Gen. Ch. Recept. nudum. Pappus simplex. Cal. squame 
zequales, discum zquantes, submembranacee. 
Sp. Char. T. scapo unifloro imbricato, foliis subcordatis angulatis 
denticulatis. 
THE root is long, round, tapering, creepin 
small short fibres; the stalks are furrowed, 
eight inches high, beset with several scaly leav 
Tink colour, and closely embracing the stem; ‘the leaves are obtuse- 
ly heart-shaped, angular, irregularly indented, above of a bright 
-green colour, beneath white, downy, and stand upon Jong roundish 
radical footstalks; the flowers are compound, large, and yellow; 
the florets in the disc are hermaphrodite, tubular, the limb is cut 
into five acute segments, which curl outwardly ; the anthere, by 
uniting, form a tube, but their apices are separate and pointed; the 
germen is short, the style filiform, longer than the anthere, and 
the florets at the circumference are female 
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the stigma is round: 
* Supposed to be derived from nk, tussis, hence Tussilago. 
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