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Tribe IX.— TUSSILAGINE^J. 
Leaves chiefly radical. Anthodcs heterogamous and radiant, or 
Bub-polygamo-dicecious and radiant or discoid. Florets of the disk 
tubular, sub-male, and those of the ray female and ligulate, or in 
the sub-dioecious forms the female florets often tulmlar or with a 
very short ligule. Anthers without basal appendages. Style with 
the branches semi-cylindrical or cylindrical (short and connivent, 
or obsolete in the sub-male florets), papillose externally towards 
the summit, the stigmatic lines inconspicuous, terminating near 
the middle of the branches of the style, not confluent. Pappus 
consisting of scabrous or plumose hairs. 
GEJVUS XXV.— T USSILAGO. Linn. 
Anthodcs many-flowered, heterogamous and radiant. Fericline 
composed of unequal herbaceous phyllaries arranged in 2 rows. 
Clinanth flat, pitted. Florets of the disk few, tubular, sub-male, 
those of the ray female, in numerous rows and ligulate, or few and 
tubular. Style with short erect semi-cylindrical blunt branches, 
st igmatiferous throughout. Achenes fusiform-cylindrical. Pappus 
of long nearly simple hairs. 
Perennial herbs, with cordate radical leaves and scaly scapes, 
terminated by solitary anthodcs with yellow or purple florets. 
The derivation of the name of this genus of plants is from tussis, a cough, the plant 
being considered useful in allaying pectoral disorders. 
SPECIES I.— T U S S I L A G O FARPARA. Linn. 
Plate DCCLXXX. 
tc. Ft. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMIV. 
. Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2080. 
Leaves roundish, shallowly scolloped and very finely denti- 
culate, cordate, arachnoid- floccose when young, at length glabrous 
above, white-cottony beneath. Scapes 1-fl.owered. .Florets yellow, 
tbosc of the ray liimlate. 
Waste places, fields, river-sides, &c. Very common, and gene- 
rally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Early Spring. 
Pootstock creeping, with elongated stolons. Leaves appearing 
after the first flowers, rather shortly stalked, 1 to 10 inches across, 
the basal lobes rather short, diverging. Scapes solitary or several 
