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CLASS XIX. ORDER II. ] DORONICUM. 1087 
cobweb pubescence above, beneath clothed with a thick white woolly 
coat, petiole long, channeled, striated, dilated, and somewhat sheath- 
ing at the base. 
Habitat.— Moist waste places, especially in a clayey soil; very 
common. 
Perennial; flowering in March and April. 
The dried leaves cut and smoked like tobacco are considered useful 
in some kinds of coughs and asthma; and an infusion made into 
syrup, with sugar or honey, is said to be useful for the same affec- 
tions. ‘Ihe thick cottony substance of the leaves, when impregnated 
with saltpetre, forms an excellent tinder. 
GENUS XL. DORON'ICUM.—Liny. Leopard’s-bane. 
Nat. Ord. Comerosi'tm. Juss. 
Gun. Cuan. Involucrum hemispherical, or flat, its scales equal, in a 
double row. Jlorets yellow, those of the ray ligulate, five 
toothed. Receptacle naked. Pappus hairy, wanting on the 
sais marginal florets. Fruit sulcated—Name from dweon, a gift; 
and wbx, victory ; because. it is said to have been formerly used 
to destroy wild beasts. 
. D. Pardalian'ches. Linn. (Fig. 1294.) Great Leopard’s-bane. 
Leaves heart-shaped, toothed, the lower and radical ones with long 
‘naked footstalks, the upper ones with the petiole dilated into broad 
ears at the base, and embracing the stem, the uppermost ones ob- 
ong, sessile, embracing the stem; stolons elongated, sessile, thick, 
and fleshy at the end. 
English Botany, t. 2654.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 
307.—Lindley, Synopsis, Suppl. p. 3825.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 
AAT. 
ae Root with creeping stolons, forming oblong fleshy tubers at the 
end, from which the stem and other stolons arise, and spread around. 
Stem erect, about three feet high, simple, or sometimes branched 
above, round, striated, leafy, and slightly hairy. Leaves somewhat 
downy, bright green above, pale beneath, the lower and radical ones 
broadly heart-shaped, waved and toothed on the margin, on long 
slender channeled footstalks, the intermediate leaves ovate, with a 
dilated petiole, auriculated at the base, and embracing the stem, the 
upper leaves oblong lanceolate, sessile, and embracing the stem. 
Flowers terminal, solitary, bright yellow, about two inches across. 
Florets numerous, those of the ray with a rather long linear spreading 
lip, entire, or three toothed at the end, those of the disk tubular, 
fiye toothed. Involucre downy, of linear awl-shaped scales. Fruit 
oblong, furrowed, those of the ray without pappus, or only a few 
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