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is Latin for hemp — Pliny. The leaves of this plant somewhat 

 resemble the hemp. Engl. Bot. t. 428. 



Locality. On the banks of the Avon, wet ditches, and in watery 

 places. P. Fl. August, September. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Frequent 

 in all the Districts. Flowers in crowded, pale purplish, convex, 

 corymbose tufts, terminating the stem and upper branches. 



Petasites, (Gaert.) Butter-bur. 

 Linn. CI. xix. Ord. ii. 



Name. From petasos, a broad covering for the head ; in allusion 

 to the size of the leaf ; the plant having leaves somewhat resem- 

 bling those of the Burdock, but far exceeding them as well as the 

 leaves of every other British plant. 



1. P. vulgaris, (Desf.) common Butter-bur. Tussilago Petasites 

 Sm. Engl. Bot. t. 431 and 430. Reich. Icones, xvi. 901. 



Locality. In swampy meadows and copses, and on the banks of 

 the Avon and wet ditches. P. Fl. March, April. Area, 1.2.3.4.5. 

 Distributed throughout Wilts. Rhizome creeping extensively and 

 thus multiplying the plant. Leaves very large, being when full 

 grown nearly a yard in diameter. Flowers (appearing before the 

 leaves) of a pale flesh colour, in a dense egg-shaped or oblong 

 panicle constituting a true thyrsus. The early blossoming of this 

 rank weed induces the Swedish farmers to plant it near their bee- 

 hives. Thus we see in our gardens the bees assembled on its 

 affinities, P, alba and fragrans, at a season when scarcely any other 

 flowers are expanded. 



Tussilago, (Linn.) Colt's-foot. 

 Linn. CI. xix. Ord. ii. 

 Name, From tussis, a cough ; the properties of the Colt's-foot 

 are well known as tussilaginous, or cough dispelling. 



1. T. Farfara, (Linn.) common Colt's-foot. Farfarum or farfar us 

 is a word used by Latin authors to signify a kind of herb like 

 Colt's-foot. Engl. Bot. t. 429. Reich. Icones, xvi. 904. 



Locality. Fields and banks, on clay and moist chalk. P. Fl. 

 March, April. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. In all the Districts much too 

 frequent. Root extensively creeping, very difficult of extirpation* 



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