COMPOSITE 



A. Absinthium, but smaller ; leaves twice pinnatifid with many, very 

 narrow, blunt segments, with white down on both sides ; heads in 

 racemes, drooping or erect. — Salt marshes; frequent.- Fl. July 

 — September. Perennial. 



5.* A. Stelleridna, a densely whitc-felte& species, with pinnati- 

 fid leames, with broad, 

 obtuse lobes, and a 

 .nearly simple raceme 

 of large, erect flower- 

 heads, is naturalised in 

 'places on the coast. 





23. '1' U .S S I L \ G O 

 .(•Colt's-foot).— 7t'//?"co;;!e 

 'creeping ; leaves large, 

 radical; heads solitary, 

 yellow, many-flowered ; 

 AcflfV.v narrow, in i row; 

 .reeeptaele naked ; ray- 

 flurels narrow, m several 

 rows ; disk-florets few ; 

 pappus of slender, silky 

 hairs. (Name from the 

 Latin tiissis, a cough, 

 from the use to which 

 --it is applied.) 



I. T. Fdrjara (Colt's- 

 foot). — The only 

 species ; leaves, which 

 do not appear until 

 the flower-hcads are 

 withered, roundish, 

 cordate, and angular, 

 cobwebby above, with 

 dense, white down be- 

 neath ; peduneles with 

 scale-like bracts, elon- 

 gating after flowering ; heads bright yellow, about i inch across, 

 drooping before e\pansi(jn ; pappus snoW-white. — Clayey fields ; 

 abundant. A pernicious \vi,ed, the leaves of which are made 

 into cigars for asthmatic persons. The ,down on their under 

 surfaces was formerly u^ed as tinder, and the goldfinch fre- 

 quently lines its nest with the pappus. -|-F1. February, March. 

 Perennial. 



PETA&ITES HYliRlDU^ {Connumi B tl ttcr-luH')- 



