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COMMON WEEDS 



many scaly bracts, appear during the months of 

 February or March and April, and at the summit of 

 each is a yellow head of flowers, over i inch in 

 diameter (Fig. 22). In the bud stage the heads are 

 drooping. In the seeding stage the heads are covered 



Photo, 1909. 



H. C. Long. 



FIG. 22. Coltsfoot (Tussilago Farfara L.), as seen in March, and showing the 

 extensively creeping rootstock. 



with a soft snowy pappus. The flowers are followed 

 by large stalked leaves (Figs. 2 and 23), often nearly a 

 foot broad, tf cobwebby " above, and covered with dense 

 white down beneath ; the leaves continue during 

 summer to manufacture food material for storage in 

 the creeping rootstock for the production of flowers in 



