botanically arranged. 481 



TUSSILAGO. Linn. Gen. Plant. 856. 



Tussilago scapo imbricato unifloro,foliis subcordatis angulatis 

 denticulatis. Syst. Nat. 



COLTSFOOT. Blossoms yellow. About barns. April. 



Dr. Withering says, the leaves are the basis of the British 

 herb tobacco. — They are somewhat austre, bitterish, and mu- 

 cilaginous to the taste. They have been much used in coughs 

 and consumptive complaints. Dr. Cullen has found them to 

 do considerable service in scrophulous cases. — He gives a decoc- 

 tion of the dried leaves, and finds it succeed where sea-water 

 has failed. 



SENECIO. Linn. Gen. Plant. 857. 



Senecio corollis radiantibus, foliis ensi/ormibus acute serratis 

 subtus subvillosis, caule stricto f Syst. Nat. 



GROUNDSEL. Stanchbood. Blossoms in branched particles ; 

 white. Borders of corn fields. August — October. 



This plant has been found very efficacious in stopping her- 

 morrhages in certain persons, subject to a very singular kind of 

 constitutional bleeding, when other means have failed. If the 

 bleeding be occasioned by the rupture of internal blood-vessels, 

 they drink a strong decoction of the plant ; if it be external, 

 they both drink the decoction, and apply to the wound the fresh 

 leaves bruised, or the dried plant in form of a poultice. 



ASTER. Linn. Gen. Plant. 858. 

 Aster foliis linearibus integerrimis, caule paniculato. Syst. Nat. 

 BUSHY ASTER. Florets in the circumference white, tinged 

 with red ; in the center yellow. By fences. September. 



Aster foliis linearibus acutis integerrimis, caule corymboso ra- 

 mosissimo. Syst. Nat. 



Nnn DWARF ASTER. 



