BRITISH HERBAL 
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Plants whofe Slower is compofed of numerous fofeules, arranged togerber in 
@ common cup; and forming a rounded difk, naked or encircled with pe- 
tals; whofe feeds are winged with down; and whofe fralks and leaves 
have not the milky juice, diftinguifbing the preceding clafs. 
a Bese though allied to the plants of the Iaft clafs, are feparated perfectly from them by 
; the form of the general flower, and difpofition of the flofcules. 
The later writers, influenced only by the form and arrangement of minuter parts, have 
been blind to this: but Ray, and others, long preceding them, obferved it. They call them the 
compofite, difcoide-flowered plants ; and their diftinétion is fo obvious, as well as certain, that none 
have erred about it. 
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. Natives off BRITAIN. 
Thofe of which one or more fpecies are naturally wild in this country. 
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pe flower is compofed of numerous flofcules, arranged in form of a difk, and placed in a com- 
moncup. This is ofa cylindric fhape, and confitts of about twenty fcales, The flofcules in the 
difk are tubular ; and they are edged with fome flat ones in manner of rays; and one flower only 
ftands on each ftalk. 
Linnzus places this, with all the fucceedin 
& genera of this clafs, among the Jyngenefia, the buttons 
coalefcing into a cylinder. ; 
DIVISION: 1 BRITISH SPECTES 
Common Coltsfoot. one feafon, and the leaves at another: we have 
Tufilago vulgaris. therefore reprefented it in two figures. } 
The root is long, white, and creeping. 
The ftalks which fupport the flowers are nu- 
merous, thick, juicy, purplith, eight inches 
; high ; 
This differs from the generality of plants in the 
manner of its growth, the flowers appearing at 
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