THE 
BRITISH HERBAL. 
CLASS XXVJI. 
Plants whofe flower is compofed of numerous flofcuks, arranged together in 
a common cup ; and forming a rounded dijk, naked or encircled with pe- 
tals ; whofe feeds are winged with down ; and whofe flalks and haves 
have not the milky juice, diftinguifhing the preceding clafs. 
THESE, though allied to the plants of the lall clafs, are feparated perfeftly from them' by 
the form of the general flower, and difpofition of the flofcules. 
The later writers, influenced only by the form and arrangement of minuter parts, have 
been blind to this : but Ray, and others, long preceding them, obfcrved it. They call them the 
compofite, difcoide-flowered plants ; and their diftinaion is fo obvious, as well as certain, tliat none 
have erred about it. 
SERIES I. 
Natives o/" B R i t a i n. 
Thofe of wliicli one or more fpecies are naturally wild in this country. 
GENUS I. 
COLTSFOOT. 
TUSSILAGO. 
THE flower is compofed of numerous flofcules, arranged in form of a difk, and placed in a com- 
mon cup. This is of a cylindric fliape, and confifls of about twenty fcalcs. The flofcules in the 
dilli are tubular ; and they are edged with fome flat ones in manner of rays ; and one flower only 
ftands on each fl:alk. 
Linna:us places this, with all the fucceeding genera of this clafs, among the fyiigenifja, the buttons 
coalefcing into a cylinder. 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
Common Coltsfoot. 
^vjfilago vulgaris. 
This differs from the generality of plants in the 
one feafon, and the leaves at another ; we have 
therefore reprefented it in two figures. 
The root is long, white, and creeping. 
The flalks which fupport the flowers are nu- 
manner of its growth, the flowers appearing at merous, thick, juicy, purphlh, eight inches 
i high ; 
