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Tribe IX.— TUSSILAGINEiE. 



Leaves chiefly radical. Anthodes lieterogamous and radiant, or 

 sub-polygamo-dicecious and radiant or discoid. Florets of the disk 

 tubular, sub-male, and those of the ray female and ligulate, or in 

 the sub-dioecious forms the female florets often tubular or with a 

 very short ligule. Anthers without basal appendages. Style with 

 the branches semi-cylindrical or cylindrical (short and connivent, 

 or obsolete in the sub-male florets), papillose externally towards 

 the summit, the stigmatic lines inconspicuous, terminating near 

 the middle of the branches of the style, not confluent. Pappus 

 consisting of scabrous or plumose hairs. 



GENUS XXV.— H USSILAGO. Linn. 



Anthodes many-flowered, heterogamous and radiant. Pericline 

 composed of unequal herbaceous phyllaries arranged in 2 rows. 

 Clinanth flat, pitted. Florets of the disk few, tubular, sub-male, 

 those of the ray female, in numerous rows and ligulate, or few and 

 tubular. Style with short erect semi-cylindrical blunt branches, 

 stigmatiferous throughout. Achenes fusiform-cylindrical. Pappus 

 of long nearly simple hairs. 



Perennial herbs, with cordate radical leaves and scaly scapes, 

 terminated by solitary anthodes with yellow or purple florets. 



The derivation of the name of this genus of plants is from ticssis, a cough, the plant 

 being considered useful in allaying pectoral disorders. 



SPECIES I.— T USSILAGO FARPARA. Linn. 



Plate DCCLXXX. 



Eeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMIV. 

 milot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2080. 



Leaves roundish, shallowly scolloped and very finely denti- 

 culate, cordate, arachnoid-floccose when young, at length glabrous 

 above, white-cottony beneath. Scapes 1-flowered. Florets yellow, 

 those of the ray ligulate. 



"Waste places, fields, river-sides, &c. Very common, and gene- 

 rally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Early Spring. 



Rootstock creeping, with elongated stolons. Leaves appearing 

 after the first flowers, rather shortly stalked, i to 10 inches across, 

 the basal lobes rather short, diverging. Scapes solitary or several 



