118 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



white. Plant deep-green ; leaves pale beneath, remaining arachnoid 

 on the petioles and veins. Plowers Avith the scent of vanilla. 



Sweet-scented Coltsfoot, or Winter Heliotrope. 



French, Tussilage Parfume. 



Section II.— EU-PETASITES. Gr. & Godr. 



Corolla of the female florets filifornij obliquely truncate but 

 not ligulate at the apex. 



SPECIES II.— PET ASITES ALB US. Giirtn. 



Plate DCCLXXXII. 



Rekh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. DCCCXCIX. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 383. 

 Tussilago alba, Linn. Sp. PL p. 214. 



Leaves roundish, deeply cordate with the lobes sub-parallel, 

 coarsely dentate and sharply denticulate, at first arachnoid- 

 floccose, at length glabrous above and white-cottony beneath. 

 Sub-male flowers in a roundish- or shortly-ovate racemose panicle, 

 scarcely elongating after flowering ; the female in a longer and 

 more lax racemose panicle, which becomes lax and rather elon- 

 gated after flowering. Phyllaries sub-acute. Corolla of the female 

 florets filiform, obliquely truncate but not ligulate at the apex. 

 Style of the sub-male florets with the branches elongated, linear- 

 subulate, acute. 



In waste places, roadsides, and woods. Introduced. " A large 

 patch of this early-flowering plant occurs in an oak wood north 

 of the Hall " (P. Inchbald, Storthes Hall, near Huddersfield, in 

 Phytol. Vol. III. 2^. 445) ; " road-side at Mains Castle, Forfarshire, 

 abundant, and perfectly naturalized" (Professor George Lawson) ; 

 Rubislaw, Aberdeen (the late J. S. Ogilvic) ; and in Corby Den, 

 Kingcausie, Kincardineshire. 



[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Spring. 



Extremely like P. vulgaris, but smaller, the leaves 6 inches to 

 1 foot across, more deeply scolloped, so that the teeth project, the 

 denticulations between them much sharper, the basal lobes with 

 the ])arcncliyma developed from the base, so that no part of the 

 lobe is bounded by the lateral veins. Anthodcs few. Pcricline 

 about \ inch long, with the i)hyllaries acute, slightly hairy on the 

 back. Florets white or cream-colour. Corolla of the sub-male 

 florets larger, style more protruded and with much longer and more 

 acute branches than in P. vulgaris. 



