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ternate peduncles, bearing each a fingle flower : 

 the leaves are a little hairy, often undulated on 

 the edges, of a narrow lanceolate form, and 

 grow alternate on the ftalk : the fcales of the 

 calyx are linear and downy : the dilc of the 

 flower is yellow •, but the florets which compofe 

 the rays are bluifn or flelli-color'd, very narrow 

 or filiform, ereft, bind, and about forty in num- 

 ber. 



TUSSILAGO. Gen. pi. <^f,2. 

 Recept. nudum. Pappus fimplex. Cal. fquam^ 

 asquales, difcum :Equantes, lubmembranace^. 

 farfara i. TUSSILLAGO fcapo unifloro imbricato, foliis 

 fubcordatis angulatis denticulatis. 6^;. /;/. 1214. 

 (Ger. em, 8u./. 1. Fet. herb. t. i-],/. 7. 8. Moris. 

 htfi.f. 7. /. 12./. I. crdinis fuperioris. Blackivell 

 t. 204 ) 

 Common Colt's-Foot. Anilis. 

 An gaHan gainbhich, Chluasliath. Gaulis. 

 In moifi: and clayey foils frequent, as on the banlis 

 of the water of Leitk., dzc. V-. III. IV. 



The floral fl:alk comes up before the leaves, is 

 about fix inches high, befet with many fcales, 

 and bears a fingle yellow radiated flower at the 

 top: the leaves are white and hoary underneath : 

 th^ calyx confifts of one feries of narrow lanceo- 

 late fcales, all equal : the female florets which 

 compofe the rays are numerous, ver) narrow, 

 and intire : the flowers nod before tlie burfl:ino- 



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