COMPOSITE FAMILY. 171 
a Sate Faw Scales of the involucre lance-linear, rather acute. Florets white. Akenes 
_ swampy grounds : throughout the United States. FI. July-August. Fr. Sept. 
This species is so common in wet meadows, and low grounds, as 
to be regarded rather as an objectionable w ti chiefly en- 
titled to notice its Seg properties,—being either emetic, ca- 
thartic, or _aeonneny rdi dose, 0: f exhibiti 
f this genus, which meet the eye of 
the farmer in his meadows and soig the borders of woods and thickets— 
particularly a tall, stout one, with verticillate leaves and purple flowers, 
(E. purpureum, L); but they are scarcely of sufficient importance to 
claim a place in this work. 
3. TUSSILA’GO, Tournef. Courts-Froor. 
one from the Latin, Tussis, a 5 ae for the cure of which the aa is pases 
ca 
flow ‘A perennial herb with thick sceeaiitig Honk nea leaves aieak 
appearing ter than the s caly sc eae petaye ellow 
a i Fa r’ fara sd Fe fl ted wl th scales, woolly 
when n young ; acer long ceria cordate, pray tal 
Colts-foot. 
Fags rcp “stock widely spreading. Scapes about a foot high. Leaves which acquire their fall 
ize after the lowering season, 3-5 inches in Taiseber, cee capl gB irregularly lobed and 
angular, smc oestrone above and white tomentose below. Heads of flowers about % of an 
inch in d 
Along anal New England and New York. Introduced from Europe. March - April. 
Obs. The Colts-foot which is 
Cc 
1 as a weed, but for its popular, i 
tation. It is one of those harmless plants which have 
cacious domestic remed it is even cultivated in old 
ns. An infusion of the w used for co’ mo- 
e tonic qualities. The leaves have sometimes — 
bode rer for iam. ts 
4, a cee Tournef. 
[Greek, Aster, a star ; the radiated heads of flowers resembling stars.] 
Heads many-flowered—the capone in a single series, pistillate—those 
phat ged tate dt Scales of the involucre more or less 
