118 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
white. Plant deep-green ; leaves pale beneath, remaining arachnoid 
on the petioles and veins. Mowers with the scent of vanilla. 
Siceet-scentecl Coltsfoot, or Winter Heliotrope. 
French, Tussilage Parfume. 
Section II.— EU-PETASITES. Gr. & Godr. 
Corolla of the female florets filiform, obliquely truncate but. 
not ligulate at the apex. 
SPECIES II.— P ETASITES ALBUS. Gdrtn. 
Plate DCCLXXXII. 
Iteieh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. DCCCXCIX. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 383. 
Tussilago alba, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 214. 
Leaves roundish, deeply cordate with the lobes sub-parallel, 
coarsely dentate and sharply denticulate, at first arachnoid- 
fioccose, at length glabrous above and white-cottony beneath. 
Sub-male flowers in a roundish- or shortly-ovate racemose panicle, 
scarcely elongating after flowering ; the female in a longer and 
more lax racemose panicle, which becomes lax and rather elon- 
gated after flowering. Phyllaries sub-acute. Corolla of the female 
florets filiform, obliquely truncate but not ligulate at the apex. 
Style of the sub-male florets with the branches elongated, linear- 
subulate, acute. 
In waste places, roadsides, and woods. Introduced. " A large 
patch of this early-flowering plant occurs in an oak wood north 
of the Hall " (P. Inchbald, Storthes Hall, near Huddersfield, in 
Phytol. Vol. III. p. 445) ; " road-side at Mains Castle, Forfarshire, 
abundant, and perfectly naturalized" (Professor George Lawson) ; 
Rubislaw, Aberdeen (the late J. S. Ogilvie) ; and in Corby Den, 
Kingcausie, Kincardineshire. 
[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Spring. 
Extremely like P. vulgaris, but smaller, the leaves 6 inches to 
1 foot across, more deeply scolloped, so that the teeth project, the 
denticulations between them much sharper, the basal lobes with 
the parenchyma developed from the base, so that no part of the 
lobe is bounded by the lateral veins. Anthodes few. Pcricline 
about I inch long, with the phyllaries acute, slightly hairy on the 
back. Florets white or cream-colour. Corolla of the sub-male 
florets larger, style more protruded and with much longer and more 
acute branches than in P. vulgaris. 
