TUSSILAGO. 



purplilli, creeping to the extent of many feut, with many- 

 long, thick, fimple llbri-s. Leaves about two inches broad 

 at the flowering period, but when full grown, 



cighreen 



inches in diameter ; bright green and fmooth on botli fid 

 purphfh at the edges, flediy ; copioufly veined Ijeaealh ; 

 their margin irregularly and fharply toothed, fometimes 

 angular. Footjlalks fmooth, a foot or more in length. 

 Flo-wer-fietlk taller than the leaves, thick, fucculent, reddifli, 

 llriated, fliglitly cottony, bearing many large, inflated, 

 llieathing braBeas. and terminaMrg in a more or lefs com- 

 pound, Lvel-topped, or corymbofe, par.'icie, whofe downy 

 Italks are fiirniftied with many fmooth, linear -lanceolate, 

 flat, much fmalbr bralieas. Flcwers from eight to twenty, 

 fcarcely half an inch broad, ftravv-coloured, with fiiortifli 

 rays. Willdenow's opinion of this being a verv dillinCl 

 fpecies, is confirmed by Gmeiui's own fpecimeus in the 

 Linnxan herbarium ; which alfo, ur.lefs we are greatly mif- 

 takcn, (hew n. 127. t. 69, D, E, of the fame author, to be 

 the very fame plant, totally different from the common 

 7". Petajites, with which he compares it, in many other points 

 befides the colour of \heJIoivm. 



14. T. alba. White Coll'sfoot, 

 Pi. 1214. 

 { Petafites 

 Hall. Hift. 



16. T. Petafites. 

 Willd. n. i.9. 

 Lond. falc. 2. 

 de la 

 Came 

 Hill. 



1215 



Curt. 



Herb. 



199. 



Fuchf 



Butter-bur. Linn. Sp. 

 n. 7. Fl. Dan. t. 524, 

 Epit. 593. P. n. 139; 

 denfe, level-topped. 



or Double-toothed 

 Willd. n. 17. Ait. 

 flore albo ; Camer. 



V. I. 61.1 — Panicle 



flowers without 



rays. 



Leaves 



are unconnedcd. In a remark on the fcxes of this tribe of 

 plants, at p. 43, of Engl. Bot. T. alba v. madvertently 

 mentioned for nmea. 



Common Butter-bur. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 FI. Brit. n. 3. Engl. Bot. t. 431. 

 t. 59. Fl, Dan. t. 842. BuUiard 

 Fr. t. 391. (T. major; Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 

 Lamer. Epit. 592. Petafites; Ger. Em. 814. 

 , ,, , 644. P. n. 138; HalL Hift. V. I. 61.) 

 (3. 1. hybnda; Linn. Sp. PI. 1214. Fl. Brit. n. 2. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 430. (Petafites major, floribus pedicuUs 

 longis mfidentibus ; Dill. Elth. 309. t. 230. P. n. 140 ; 

 Hall. Hift. V. I. 61.) —Panicle denfe, ovate-oblong. 

 Flowers without rays. Leaves rouiidifli-heartfiiaped, UR- 

 equally toothed, flightly angular, with rounded converging 



lobes ; paler and fomewhat Ihaggy beneath Native of 



moift, boggy, fhady meadows, the borders of rivers, pools, 

 &c. throughout Europe. Dr. Sibthorp found it in Greece, 

 but not common, except in rather mountainous, as well as 

 watery fituations. Tliere can, however, be little doubt of 

 this plant being, as all botanifts have thought, the 7r;T«3->1ru 

 8f Diofcorides. Our /5 grows with tlie comm.on kind, 

 though far lefs frequently. Both flower in April, before 

 the leaves expand, and are, of courfe, perennial. The root 

 is thick and flefliy, creeping very far, and hard to be ex- 

 tirpated. Stalh a fpan high, thick, downy, clothed with 



roundifli-heartlhapcd, doubly and fharply toothed ; white oblong reddifh braBeas, partly leafy at their extremity, and 



and Ihaggy beneath. — In mountainous woods, and about terminating in a denfe ovate panicle, of pale dull<y fielh- 



the banks of rivers, in t!ie alpine parts of Europe, not rare coloured j7oTOcrj. Thejlorets are all tubular, furniflied with 



in Switzerland, but unknown as a native of Britain. It united red a«//^«-j- and a thick cloven AVwia. The younger 



appears to have been cultivated at Edinburgh in the time of 

 Sutherland, 1683, and we obtained a fpecimen from the 

 botanic garden there 100 years after, under the erroneous 

 name of T. hybrida. This is a large fpecies, diftinguifhed 

 from all the reft, of thofe which bear many flowers on a 

 ftalk, by its ftrongly, doubly, and acutely-toothed leaiies ; 

 quite fmooth above ; very veiny and cottony beneath, 

 when young, but afterwards the pubefcence of tliat fide 

 becomes more grey, ihaggy, and loofe. The tall downy 

 Hoivci-Jlalk bears a great number of broad, concave, rather 

 cottony braSeas, and terminates in a branched many- 

 flowered corymbofe />^n/Wf. T\\s Jlowers are rather J"mall, 

 fnow-white, without rays. Down feffile. Willdenow and 



Linnasus, and Haller, have detefted a few female ones, &id 

 to afford good feed ; but many botanifts have remarked that 

 the Common Butter-bur never perfefts feed, nor does even 

 Its feed-down make a very confpicuous appearance. T. 

 hybrida, which we have marked as a variety, becaufe its 

 leaves are rather fmaller, and the panicle rather longer, with 

 imi^lerjloivers, is allowed to be the female plant, or at leait 

 an individuiil in which that fex prevails. In this moil of 

 the florets are female, with a flender corolla, and a taper, 

 acute, e^cicnt Jligma. One or two of the central ones only 

 are male, having ieparate anthers, and a thick wkXsh Jligma. 

 The pa7uclevi\ie'n in leed is much elongated, and becomes cy- 

 lindrical, confpicuous for its copious, brilliant, though rtiort, 



other botanifts have obferved, that fome individual plants feed-down, forming an elegant filveiy plume, a foot or more 



have but very few, and others many, iemiXeJlorets, in com- 

 parifon to thofe furniflied with hoX.\\ Jlamehs and pi/lils ; but 

 the author juft named has been mifled by Villars to cite, as 

 the female plant of this fpecies^ Gmelin's t. 69. f. D, E, 

 ■which has yeWow Jlowers ; fee our n. 13. 



15. T. nivra. Snowy Colt's-foot, or White-leaved 

 Butter-bur. Villars Aftes de la Soc. d'Hift., Nat. de 

 Paris, v. i. 73. t. 12. f. 2. Willd. n. 18. Ait. n. 8. 

 (T. frigida; Villars Dauph. v. 3. 175. T. paradoxa ; 

 Retz. Obf. fafc. 2. 24. t. 3. Petafites n. 141 ; Hall. Hift. 

 v. I. 62. P. minor, tuflilaginis folio; Morif. fed. 7. t. 10. 

 f. 4. ) — Panicle denfe, rather oblong. Flowers without rays. 

 Leaves triangular-heartfliaped, finiply toothed, with fpread- 

 ing angular lobes ; denfely downy and white beneath. — 

 Native of the mountains of Switzerland, Germany, Dau- 

 phiny, &c. flowermg in April. Diff'ers from the laft in the 



in length. The leaves of the common T. Petajites are the 

 largeft of any Britifli plant, being often three feet broad. 

 They are grey or hoary beneath, far lefs white than thofe 

 of T. nivea, as well as more rounded, and with their lobes 

 approaching each other. 



17. T.fpuria. Cloven-lobed Butter-bur, or Colt's-foot. 

 Retz. Obf. fafc. i. 29. t. 2. Willd. n. 20. (T. tomen- 

 tofa; Ehrh. Beitr. v. 3. 65.] — Panicle corymbofe. Flowers 

 without rays. Leaves triangular-heartfliaped, finiply and 

 finely toothed, with fpreading, angular, cloven lobes ; 

 denfely downy beneath. — Native of Lapland, Scania, and 

 Germany, about the banks of rivers. The general outhne 

 of the leaves, with their fpreading acute lateral lobes, is moft 

 like nivea, n. 15, but thofe lobes are remarkable for being 

 always divided, or double. The marginal teeth of the 

 whole leaf are alfo more numerous, crowded, regular, and 



fnowy whitenefs, and denfe pubefcence, of the under fide of fmaller, as well as more obtuie, than m mvea; the lolt. 



the leaves, as well as in their triangular form, and their 

 fimple feries of marginal teeth. Flowers pale flefli-coloured. 

 Common Jlalk clothed with finiilar large braSeas. Seed-down 

 near an inch long. The female plant, termed /arai/o-w, as 

 a diftinft fpecies, by Retzius, has but about three appa- 

 rently pericRforets in each caly>:, and of tliefe the anthers 



cottony, very white downinefs of the under fide nearly ac- 

 cords with that fpecies ; the upper is green, and quite 

 fmooth, except when young. Flowers corymbofe, rather 

 than panicled, cream-coloured, with linear braBeas. Au- 

 thors have diftinguiflied two varieties; one with a more 

 fliort denfe infiore/cence, and only three iemik Jlorets, all 

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