The vegetable SYSTEM. 
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GENUS II. 
TUSSILAGO. 
Character of the Genus. 
The Cup is oblong; its Scales are narrow, flat, and equal: 
the Rays of the Flower are narrow. 
Plate 19. Fig. I. a, a. b. 
I. COY TUSSILAGO. 
Plate 19. Fig. i. 
CharatSer of the Species. Tuffilago anandria. 
The Leaves are egg-fhaped, but have alfo fome finall divi- 
lions toward the bafe. 
Fig. I. a. b, 
r HIS is a perennial ; native of Siberia, a low and humble 
I Plant, fo coy and delicate in the opening of its Flower, that 
it requires warm courtfliip from the Sun ; and in the northern 
climates was fuppofed for a long time incapable of blowing at all. 
The Leaves are of a delicate green, and their underfide is downy. 
The Stalk is weak, tender, redilli, and but four inches high : naked, 
except for a few flight films; and at its top fupports only a fingle 
Flower. This is large, and of a delicate fnowy white. 
2. HEART-LEAVED TUSSILAGO. 
Plate 19. Fig. 2. 
Charafter of the Species. Tuffilago farfara. 
The Leaves are heart-fhaped, but cornered and indented ; 
the Flower-flalk is thick and Scaly. 
Fig. 2. (i.b. 
This is our common Coltsfoot ; a perennial Plant, frequent in 
wet, tough foils ; whofe Flowers appear in Februarj'’, and its Leaves 
not till April. The Stalk fupports only a fingle Flower; it is thick, 
tender, hollw, redifii, and covered thick with filmy fcales. The 
Flower itfelfis large, fpecious, and yellow. The I^eaves are of a faint 
green, but on their under part white; covered with a tough, firm, 
cottony fubftance, capable of being wrought into cloth. An infu- 
fion of the Leaves of this Plant fweetened with honey is excellent in 
all diforders of the breafi, 
3. TOWER* 
