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A very slender plant, with an erect, cottony stem, irregularly 

 branched at the top. Leaves also cottony, linear-lanceolate, 

 and pressed up toward the stem. Flower-heads small and nu- 

 merous, in little axillary bunches ; florets of a pale-yellow. Ex- 

 mouth Warren. Middledon Down, near Chagford. (Gnapha- 

 Uwn, E. B. t. 1157.) A. vi.-ix. 



2. F. Germanica (common F.) In dry fields and stony or 

 sandy waste places. Stem from 6 to 8 inches high, with nu- 

 merous upright, cottony, lanceolate or linear leaves ; a roundish 

 cluster of flower-heads crowns the main stems, from beneath 

 which 2 or 3 branches radiate, each bearing a similar cluster of 

 flowers ; florets pale-yellow. Yery common. Park Hill. War- 

 berry Hill, etc. (G-naphalium, E. B. t. 946.) A. YII.-IX. 



PETASITES. BUTTEE-BUE. 



P. vulgar is (common IB.) In wet meadows and by roadsides. 

 This plant has an extensively creeping root, sometimes extending 

 for many yards. Leaves very large, spreading on the ground, 

 roundish heart-shaped, unequally toothed, and downy beneath. 

 Flowers, which appear before the leaves, on stems from 4 to 8 

 inches high, in numerous flower-heads of a dull flesh- colour. 

 The sweet Coltsfoot (Tussilago fragrans) grows also very plen- 

 tifully about Torquay. Tussilago Petasites, Linn. (E. B. t. 431.) 

 P. in.-v. 



SUBTBIBE 2. 



TUSSILAGO. COLTSFOOT. 



T. Parfara (Coltsfoot.) In moist clayey waste and cultivated 

 ground. Eoots creeping. Leaves roundish heart-shaped, an- 

 gular, toothed, downy on the under surface and slightly so on 

 the upper ; flowers appear before the leaves in solitary heads 

 with florets of a bright yellow colour. Fields and roadsides, too 

 common. (E. B. t. 429.) P. in. IT. 



ASTER. STAEWOET, MICHAELMAS-DAISY. 



A. Tripolium (sea S., or M.) In salt-marshes and muddy 

 banks of tidal rivers. Stem about 1 foot high, slightly branched. 

 Leaves succulent, sessile, linear-lanceolate, not hairy. Flower- 



