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after the floral ftalks in the month of May^ of a 

 rounded cordate form, very large, often two feet 

 \^ide, dented on the margin, woolly underneath, 

 and fupported on footftalks. 



fetafitcs 3. TUSSILAGO thyrfo ovato, flofculis femineis nu- 

 dis paucis. Syft. nat, p. 550. Sp, 'pL 1215. {Ger, 

 em. 814./^. I, 2. Mens, hiji.f, 7. /. J2./. i. or- 

 dinis fuperioris ad dextram. Pet. herb, t. 15./. 11, 

 12. H, Akhft<ttt hybern. tab. 5./. i. Blackwell /. 

 222J 



Common Butter-bur. Anglis, 



An gall an mor. Gaulis. 



In wet meadows and by river fides frequent, as by 

 the new well at Leith^ &c. '^. IV. V. 



The floral fl:alk is 10 or 12 inches high, terminat- 

 ed with a thick oval fpike of purplifli flowers, 

 much larger than thofe of the preceding fpecies, 

 but much fewer in number : the peduncles are 

 fhort and Ample, and generally bear only a Angle 

 flower : the calyx is beil-fliap'd or inverfely co- 

 nical, and confifls of four feries of reddifli lan- 

 ceolate fcales : the florets are almofl: all of them 

 hermaphrodite, but fometimes a few female ones 

 are found in the rim In other refpeds it agrees 

 with the preceding. 



The leaves of thefe" are the largeil: of any native 

 plant in Great- Britain, and in heavy rains are 

 frequently obferv'd to afl^oid a feafonable faelter 

 to poultry and other fmall animals. 



