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after the floral ftalks in the month of May\ of a 

 rounded cordate form, very large, often two feet 

 \inde, dented on the margin, woolly underneath, 

 and fupported on footftalks. 



'/Itcs 3. TUSSILAGO thyrfo ovato, flofculis femineis nu- 

 dis paucis. Syjl. nat. p. 550. Sp. pi. 1215. {Ger. 

 em. 814./^. I, 2. Meris. hiji.f. y.t. \i. f. i. or- 

 djnis fuperioris ad dexiram. Pet. herb. t. i^.f. fi, 

 12. H. Aichjiatt hyhern. tab. 5./. i, Blackwell /. 

 222.J 



Common Butter-bur. Anglis. 



An gall an mor. GauUs. 



In wet meadows and by river fides frequent, as by 

 the new well at Leith, &c. "ii. IV. V. 



The floral fl:alk is 10 or 12 inches high, terminat- 

 ed with a thick oval fpike of purplifli flowers, 

 much larger than thofe of the preceding fpecies, 

 but much fewer in number : the peduncles are 

 Ihort and Ample, and generally bear only a fingle 

 flower : the calyx is bell-fliap'd or inverfely co- 

 nical, and confifl:s of four feries of reddiih lan- 

 ceolate fcales : the florets are almoft all of them 

 hermaphrodite, but fometimes a few female ones 

 are found in the rim In other refpefts it ao-rees 

 with the preceding. 



The leaves of thefe are the largefl: of any native 

 plant in Great- Britain, and in heavy rains are 

 frequently obferv'd to afibrd a feafonable flielter 

 to poultry and other fmall animals. 



The 



