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ternate peduncles, bearing each a fingle flower : 

 the leaves are a little hairv, often und elated on 

 the edges, of a narrow lanceolate fortu, and 

 grow alternate on the (talk : the fcai::^ of the 

 calyx are linear and downy : the difc of the 

 flower is yellow; but the florets which compofe 

 the rays are bluifli or flefh-color'd, very narrow 

 or filiform, ered, bifid, and about forty in num- 

 ber. 



TUSSILAGO. G^;;.;^/. 952. 

 Recept, nudum. Pappus fimplex. CaL fquamae 

 asquales, difcum xquantes, fubmembranace^e. 

 far far a i. TUSSILLAGO fcapo unifloro imbricato, foliis 

 fuDcordatis angulatis denticulatis. 6)^. jD/. 1214. 

 (Ger. em. 811./. 1. Vet. herb. t. i"]. f. 7. 8. Moris. 

 hift,f 7. /. 12./. J. crdinis fiiperioris. Blackwell 

 t. 204.) 

 Common Colt's- Foot. Anglis. 

 Ah gaHan gainbhich, Chluas-Iiath. GatiUs. 

 In moifl: and clayey foils frequent, as on the banks 

 of the water of Leith, Sec, U. III. IV. 



The floral fl:alk comes up before the leaves, is 

 about fix inches high, befet with many fcales, 

 and bears a fingle yellow radiated flower at the 

 top: the leaves are white and hoary underneath : 

 the calyx confifls of one ferles of narrow lanceo- 

 late fcales, all equal : the female florets which 

 compofe the rays are numerous, ver) narrow, 

 and intire : the fiov;ers nod before the burfliing 



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