1086 TUSSILAGO. [CLASS XIX, ORDER II. 
smooth, furrowed, scarcely branched, terminating in a corymb of not 
very numerous flowers. Leaves scattered, sessile, smooth, scarcely 
paler beneath than above, lanceolate, serrated, unequally, the teeth 
small, glandular, tipped, and more or less recurved, the upper ones 
sessile, with a broad base, the lower ones narrowed into a winged 
footstalk. Flowers bright yellow. Involucre of lanceolate black 
pointed scales, smooth, or slightly downy, the outer ones few, half as 
long as the inner. racteas linear lanceolate. Florets of the ray 
few, with a broad oblong obtuse veiny limb, toothed at the end, of 
the disk tubular, five toothed. J’ruit short, oblong, angular, smooth. 
Pappus white, long, rough. 
Habitat.—Moist meadows and pastures in several parts of England 
and Scotland, but very local, and probably often the outcast from 
gardens. : 
Perennial; flowering in July and August. 
The specific name Saracenicus is given to the plant in reference to 
its having been used by the Saracens for the cure of bie 
ulcers, ae It has not, however, obtained any celebrity i in modern 
times for vulnerary properties, and is not in anyway used. 
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GENUS XXXIX. TUSSILA'GO—Luinn. Colt's foot. 
Nat. Ord. Composi'tz. Juss. 
Gen. Cuar. Involucrum formed of a single row of iideae scales 
membranous on the margin. oe yellow, those of the ray 
coughs. 
1. ZT Far'fara, Linn. (Fig. 1293.) Colt’sfoot. Scape single 
flowered, imbricated, with scales; leaves heart-shaped, toothed, white 
and woolly beneath, 
English Botany, t. 429.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 426——Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 803.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 147. 
Root fibrous, with long fleshy creeping underground stems, 
Flowers appearing before the leaves, solitary, terminating a round 
white cottony scape, about a foot high, simple, scattered over with 
oblong lanceolate membranous scales, mostly of a purplish colour, 
the bud drooping, erect when in flower. Involucre of oblong obtuse 
membranous scales, with a few smaller ones at the base. Florets 
numerous, those of the ray crowded, with a narrow linear sprea 
limb, those of the disk few, tubular, five-cleft. Pappus long, wl 
silky, spreading. Leaves angular, heart-shaped, more or less unequally 
toothed on the margin, nearly smooth, or slightly covered over with a — 
