332 COMPOSITiE. TussitAco. 



6. TUSSILAGO. Toum. ; Endl. gen. 2288. coltsfoot. 



[ From the Latin, tussis, a cough ; for the cure of which the plant is uscO.] 



Heads many-flowered, heterogamous. Flowers of the ray very narrowly ligulate, in several 

 series, pistillate ; those of llie disk few, tubular, slaminale. Scales of the involucre oblong, 

 obtuse, somewhat in a single scries. Receptacle naked. Anthers scarcely caudate. Style 

 abortive in the flowers of the disk ; in those of the ray 2-cleft ; the branches somewhat 

 terete. Achenia of the ray cylindrical-oblong, smooth ; in the disk abortive. Pappus of 

 the ray-flowers in many series ; of the disk in a single series, capillary. — A perennial herb. 

 Rhizoma rather thick. Leaves radical, appearing later than the flowers, cordate, angular- 

 toothed, petioled. Scape clothed with scaly bracts, woolly, bearing a single head. Flower* 

 yellow. 



1. TussiLAGO Farfara, Linn. Common Coltsfoot. 



Engl. hot. t. 429 ; Willd. sp. 3. p. 1967 ; Torr. compend. p. 307; Beck, Lot. p. 200; 

 DC. prodr. 5. p. 208 ; Torr. <^ Gr. fl. N. Am. 2. p. 94. 



Caudex short. Leaves (when fully grown) 3-5 inches in diameter, smoothish above ; the 

 under surface and the long petiole whitish and tomentose ; the margin irregularly toothed and 

 angular, with the points of the teeth discolored. Scape 4-8 inches high, clothed with oblong 

 brownish scales. Head of flowers about three-fourths of an inch in diameter. 



Moist clayey banks ; perfectly naturalized in the northern and western part of the State. 

 Fl. March - April. A native of Europe. The dried leaves are sometimes smoked for the 

 relief of asthma. 



Tribe III. ASTEROIDEJE. Less. 



Heads heterogamous or sometimes homogamous, rarely dicecious. Style {in the perject 

 flowers) cylindraceous above ; the branches flat or flattish, mostly linear or lanceolate, 

 the upper part equally and minutely pubescent externally ; the conspicuous sligmatic 

 lines, terminating xuhere the exterior pubescence commences, not confluent. — Leave* 

 alternate, or rarely opposite. 



CONSPECTUS OF THE SUBTRIBES. 



Subtribe 1. Asterine^. Heads heterogamous and radiate, or homogamous. Receptacle seldom chaffy. Anthers not 

 caudate. Leaves alternate. 

 Div. 1. ASTERE.E. Heads radiate, heterochromous (rays never yellow). 

 Div. 2. CflRTSocoMEiE. Heads radiate or homogamous, homochromous (both the ray and the disk yellow). 



Subtribe IL Bacchabideje. Heads dioecious or heterogamous, but never radiate ; the pistillate flowers tubular, slender 

 or filiform, in several series. Receptacle not chaiTy. Anthers not caudate. 



Subtribe III. TARcnoNANTHEi;. Heads dioscious or heterogamous, but never radiate ; the pistillate flowers tabulai and 

 very slender, mostly in several series. Anthers caudate. 



Subtribe IV. Inule*;. Heads heterogamous and radiate, or homogamous and discoid, never dioecious. Receptacle not 

 chafly. Anthers caudate. Leaves alternate. 



