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and 



FLOWERS OF LAKES, RIVERS, ETC. 



The scapes are downy, one or more, the flowerheads bright yellow, 

 erect in bloom and in fruit, drooping in bud and after flowering. 

 The scapes are covered by numerous oblong, closely pressed, smooth 

 scales or bracts. The involucral bracts are in one row, with few outer 

 shorter ones. The ray florets are in many rows, narrow, ligulate, the 

 disk florets being bell-shaped, with 5 teeth. The stigma is club-shaped, 

 the arms united below, papillose, with 2 small cones. The anthers 



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Photo. B. Haiiley 



COLTSFOOT (Tussilaga Farfara, L.) 



have no tails. In the ray florets the fruit is nearly cylindrical, that of 

 the disk florets imperfect, with pappus in one row. The pappus is 

 snowy-white, soft, forming a globular clock when fully expanded, and 

 readily dispersed when ripe. The hairs are slender, rough. 



Coltsfoot is scarcely more than 6 in. in height in flower. The 

 flowers bloom in March and April. The Coltsfoot is a herbaceous 

 perennial plant, propagated by division. 



The solitary yellow flowerheads or capitula are very conspicuous in 

 the spring, being 20-25 mm. across when outspread, and have a distinct 

 and strong smell, which with the honey they contain renders them 

 especially attractive to early flying insects at a time when few flowers, 



