476 SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 



of the anther^^ but are afterwards ere6t : from 

 the tine of flowering to the ripening of the feeds 

 is about 18 days. 



The leaves fmoak'd in the manner of tobacco, or 

 a fyrup or deco6tion of them and the flowers, 

 iland recommended in coughs and other difor- 

 ders of the breaft and kings. Pradlice, however, 

 feems almolt to have rejeded it. 



A kind of tinder or touchwood is in fome countries 

 made of the roots, or the dov/ny fubftance which 

 adheres to them. 



hyhrida 2. TUSSILAGO thyrfo oblongo, fiofculis femineis 

 nudis plurimis. Sp.fL 1214. (Billen. Hort, El- 

 tham. 309. /. 230./. 297 J 



Long-ilalk'd Butter- bur. Jttglis, 



By river fides, but not very common. We obferv'd 

 plenty of it on the banks of the river Efk^ on the 

 borders of Annandale, near Netherhy. %. IV. V. 



The floral flalk is a cubit high, unbranched, fcaly, 

 and purplifh : the flowers are num.erous, fmall, 

 pale purple, or whitifli, without rays, and grow 

 jn a long conic fpike : the peduncles are two 

 inches long, branch'd, and bear each feveral 

 flowers which are often pendulous by reafon of 

 the length of the peduncles : the calyx conflfts 

 of one feries of oval-lanceolate fcales : the flo- 

 rets are all female except one or two which are 

 hermaphrodite : the down is longer than the calyx 

 even in the young flowers : the leaves come up 



;^fter 



