MARCH. 65S 
drical and scaly. lorets of the centre, tubular, with five equal 
segments furnished with sfamens and pistils, florets of the ray, 
narrow, strap-shaped. Seed oblong, compressed, downy, not 
stalked. 
TussILaAGO FARFARA. Coltsfoot. Found early, but prin- 
cipally in clayey soil, by rivers and ditches; so that it may 
not be met with in all neighbourhoods. Its leaves were 
formerly used as a remedy for coughs, whence its name, 
Tussis, being the Latin for cough. The down of the leaves 
dipped in saltpetre makes good tinder. “ A remarkable fact 
about this plant is, that whenever earth has been turned up 
from canals, roads, &c., for the depth of five or six feet or 
more, below the surface, in most parts of England, Coltsfoot 
will be found growing soon after in abundance. In all pro- 
bability the seeds have remained dormant for ages, till 
brought by this process to the surface, when light, air, heat, 
and moisture promote their vegetation.” The yellow flowers 
make their appearance before the leaves, and grow singly 
upon the stalk, which is about ten inches high and scaly. 
The florets of the ray are yellow, as well as the centre, 
narrow and strap-shaped. Leaves heart-shaped, angular, 
toothed, white and cottony beneath, smooth above. 
There is another species, 7. petasites, or, as it is called by 
