SYNGENESIA POLYGAM. SUPERF. Tussilago. 239 



T)Ty, gravelly, or clialky pastures. Sm. 



Bien. Jidy, August. Sometimes in April. Ray. 



Stem one or two f., upright, straight, furrowed, purplish, hairy. Fl. 

 many in a racemose form, in long, bi'acteated, alternate footstalks. 

 Ls. scattered, the lowermost inversely egg-shaped, often coarsely 

 saw-toothed. The flowers appear delicately streaked with blue, 

 from the numerous, linear florets of the ray, encompassing the 

 disk. Seed-down copious, longj rough, by which the plant is 

 easily recognised. Taste of the plant acrid. 



TUSSILA'GO.' Colt's-foot,* and Butter-bur. 



T. Fdrfara. Colfs-foot. Stalks single-flowered, clothed 

 with scaly bracteas. Flowers radiant. Leaves roundish 

 heart-shaped, angular and toothed. E. B. 429. C. 

 2.60. Tussilago. G. E. 811. 



Moist, sliady situations, clialky or marly soil. Sm. 

 Per. March. 



Fl. terminal, sohtary, in bud drooping; in expansion erect, lemon- 

 coloured. Cal. of several simple, parallel, equal scales ; a few 

 scattered scales at the base. Ls. on long foot-stalks, from short, 

 side branches. Ls. very smooth above, cottony, and veiny 

 beneath. Younger Is. rolled back. The leaves appear after the 

 flower. 



Leaves bitterish, mucilaginous, astringent. Troublesome weed 

 from its deep, creeping root. Roots destroyed by cutting off the 

 crown of them in March. Basis of herb-tobacco. Plant recom- 

 mended by Cullen in scrophula, in decoction. Cul. Mat. M. and 

 Fuller. Med. Gym. With. &c. The roots consolidate clay on 

 the banks of rivers. Linn. Custom of smoking this plant through 

 a reed, very ancient, mentioned by Pliny, as a remedy for cough. 

 A room may be cleared of gnats, by opening the windows, 

 and smoking or burning this plant, or tobacco. Curtis. The 

 cotton impregnated with salt-petre, makes good tinder. Sherard, 

 and With. The leaves, either smoked like tobacco, or taken in 

 infusion, reputed good for coughs. 



T. PetasitesJ Butter-bu7\ Thyrsus close, egg-oblong. 

 Flowers tubular, discoid. Leaves heart-shaped, un- 

 equally toothed, approximating, three-ribbed at the 

 base. E. B. 431. C. 2. 59. Petasites. G. E. 

 814. 



Moist, hoggy meadows, rivulets, margins of rivers. Sandford Lane. 



Sb. and R. W. 

 Per. April. 



' From tussis, a cough, the plant being reputed good in coughs. 



2 From the shape of the leaf. ^ Ang.-Sax. 



' So called from its large leaves, supposed to resemble a pctasus, or cap. 



