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TUSSILAGO FARFARA. 
CoUs-foot* 
Class Syngenesia.— Orrfer Polygamia. 
Nat. Ord. Composite. Discoide^, Linn, 
CORYMBIFER^, Juss. 
Gen. Char. Receptacle naked. Pappus simple. Calyx 
scales equal, submembranaceous. 
Spec. Char. Scape 1-flowered, scaly. Leaves cordate, angu- 
lar, toothed. 
This species of Tussilago t is a perennial plant, a native of Britain 
and many parts of Europe, and grows in moist shady situations, 
flowering in March and April. 
The root is long, round, tapering, creeping, and sends oflf many 
small short fibres ; the stalks are furrowed, downy, simple, six or 
eight inches high, beset with several scaly leaves of a brownish pink 
colour, and closely embracing the stem; the leaves are obtusely 
heart-shaped, angular, irregularly indented, above of a bright green 
colour, beneath white, downy, and stand upon long roundish radical 
footstalks; the flowers, which appear some time before the leaves, 
are compound, large and yellow ; the florets in the disk are herma- 
phrodite, tubular, cut into five obtuse segments, which curl outwardly ; 
stamens five, very short, united into a tube, but separated and 
pointed at the apices; germen short; style filiform, longer than the 
stamina ; stigma round. The florets in the circumference are female ; 
tubular at the base, limb large and linear; germen oblong; stigma 
bifid : seed oblong, and of a pale brown colour, crQwned with a 
silky down. 
Sensible Qualities, Medical Properties and Uses. The 
sensible and medical properties of this plant are very inconsiderable: 
* Fig. a. represents two plants of the nataral size, with portions of the root remored, 
b. A seed. c. A floret of the disk. d. A floret of the ray. c. A floret of the disk 
magnified, and cut open to shew the pistil and anthers. 
t Fifteen species of the genus Tassilago are cultivated in our botanic gardens. — 
Hort. Cant, 
