476 SYNGENESIA : POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 



of the antbet'ce, but are afterwards ered : from 

 the tine of flowering to the ripening of the feeds 

 is about 1 8 days. 



The leaves fmoak'd in the nianncr of tobacco, or 

 a fyrup or decodion of them and the flowers. 

 Hand recommended in coughs and other difor- 

 ders of the breaft and lungs. Pradice, however, 

 feems almoft to have rejeded it. 



A kind of tinder or touchwood is in fome countries 

 made of the roots, or the downy fubftance which 

 adheres to them. 



TUSSILAGO thyrfo oblongo, flofculis femineis 

 nudis plurimis. Sp.pl. 1214. (Dillen. Hort. El- 

 tham. 309. t. 230./. 297J 



Long-fl;alk'd Butter- bur. Jnglis. 



By river fides, but not very common. We obferv'd 

 plenty of it on the banks of the river EJk^ on the 

 borders of Annandale, near Netherhy. 'U. IV. V. 



The floral fl:alk is a cubit high, unbranched, fcaly, 

 and purplifh : the flowers are numerous, fmall, 

 pale purple, or whitifli, without rays, and grow 

 in a long conic fpike ; tlie peduncles are two 

 inches long, branch'd, and bear each feveral 

 flov/ers wliicli are often pendulous by reafon of 

 the (lengrh of r!ic peduncles : the calyx confifls 

 of one feries of oval-lanceolate fcales : the flo- 

 rets are all female except one or two which are 

 hermaphrodite : the down is longer than the caly:< 

 pven in the young flowers : the leaves come up 



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