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SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. Tussilago. 
Petasi‘tes. T. Panicle eag-shaped: female cloves few. Linn.—entire- 
ae ae a Bree h acrid taste. 
wanting in our plants OODWARD. 
Curt. 134-E. bot. 431—Blackw. 222—Fl. dan, $49-Clus. ik. 
116. 1, and 2—Dod. 597—Lob. obs. 3214.2, and 3, and it. 
i. 591-Ger. em. 814—Pete 15. 12, and 11-Ger. 008—H: 
ow. vii. 12. 1. f. 3—Park. 419. f. 3—Fuchs. 64/-F. Be 
iii. 566. 2-Trag. 415—Lonic. i. 226. 1-Matth, 845. 
Leaves the largest of any of our payee plants. The flowers 
appear before the leaves, as they do also . Farfara and most 
other spring plants. Linn. Fem. florets carat the hermaphro- 
ite, 2 or 3, scarcely to be said to have petals, strap-shaped, 
white, Linn. THE Son. Seeds altogether barren. Szy/e thread. 
shaped. Summit knobbed, spear-oblong, the point cloven. Seeds 
barren. The thick-headed club-like summit I believe may be 
peonriety of remov ing this stot er olygamia mecessarias 
ow they are propagated, “unless by lateral shoots, 
know, but this will not account for its general diffusion over the 
island, unless we sod that, in this country, as well as in 
Switzerlan d and Sweden, they sometimes produce a few female 
orets intarspare among the rest. St. Stalk 8 to 12 inches 
i ith igen seg scales embracing the stalks 
ite, tubular; at the base narrow 
for ek hy ne discharged their ipa longer atcersegia, yoies 
sitt OODWARD. 
religion Shropskate and in Mottesshall Brook near Stones 
Staffordshire. On the sides of the Water °F Leith Ve Ste 
Bernard’s Well, Edinburgh. ] » April’ 
found it succeed where. sea- water failed. Cullen's Mi ‘at..Mel. p. 4 458— 
And Futter relates a case of a girl, with twelve scrophulous sore who 
was cured by drinking daily as much as she could, for above four onths, 
dglutinos 
Wed . Gymn. ¥ gt Goats and ialoen it. Cows are fond o Horses 
and swine refuse it. ane ane meus be destroyed by Settling ote snd crown . 
of ee root in March. 
oots ig ont resinous matter. They have a stfong 
ws, goats, and sheep eat ite 
Its t large leaves aflord shelter from showers to. gets and ot the small 
imals, Liyy. 
