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opposite petioled leaves, and violet-purple ot bluish flowers in 
crowded terminal corymbs. (Name from kvvos, a cone , and kXiVtj, 
a bed , referring to the conical receptacle.) 
1 . C. CCBlestinum, DC. Somewhat hairy ; leaves triangular- 
ovate and slightly heart-shaped, coarsely and bluntly toothed, tapering 
to the apex. — Copses, Penn, and Ohio. Sept.— Plant l°-2° high, 
in tufts, with handsome bluish-purple blossoms. 
Subtribe 2. TUSSILAGfNEJE. — Flowers of the head dis¬ 
similar, or dioecious; the pistillate often ligulate. 
9. NARDOSUIIA, Cass. Sweet Coltsfoot. 
Heads many-flowered, somewhat dioecious: in the sterile plant 
with a single row of ligulate pistillate ray-flowers, and many tu¬ 
bular ones in the disk ; in the fertile plant with many rows of mi¬ 
nutely ligulate ray-flowers, and a few tubular perfect ones in the 
centre. Scales of the involucre in one row. Receptacle flat. 
Achenia terete. Pappus of soft capillary bristles, longer and co¬ 
pious in the fertile flowers. — Perennial woolly herbs, with the 
leaves all from the rootstock, the scape with sheathing scaly 
bracts, and the heads of purplish or whitish fragrant flowers in a 
corymb. (Name from vapbos, spikenard , and 007 x 77 , odor,) 
1. N. palinata, Hook. Leaves rounded, somewhat kidney- 
form, white-woolly beneath, palmately and deeply 5-7-lobed, the 
lobes toothed and cut. (Tussilago palmata, Ait. T. frigida, Bigel.) 
— Swamps, Maine to Michigan northward; rare. May.— Full- 
grown leaves 6 ' - 10 ' broad. 
IO. TUSSIL.AOO, Tourn. Coltsfoot. 
Head many-flowered; the ray-flowers narrowly ligulate, pis¬ 
tillate, fertile, in many rows ; the tubular disk-flowers few, stam- 
inate. Scales of the involucre nearly in a single row. Recepta¬ 
cle flat. Fertile achenia cylindrical-oblong. Pappus capillary, 
copious in the fertile flowers. — A low perennial, with horizontal 
creeping rootstocks, sending up scaly simple scapes in early 
spring, bearing a single head, and producing rounded heart-shaped 
leaves later in the season. Flowers yellow. (Name from tussis , 
a cough, for which the plant is a reputed remedy.) 
1. T. Farfara, L. —Wet places, naturalized in cultivated 
