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The vegetable system. 
3. TOWERED TUSSILAGO. . 
Plate 19. Fig. 3. 
Chara(E^er of the Species. Tuflilago frigid# 
The Flowers grow feveral upon one Stalk in a loofe 
clufter. 
Fig. 3. a. a. 
This is a native of the Swifs low grounds, and of their hollows 
between the mountains : it is a perennial, flowering early in fpring. 
The Leaves are very large, of a black green on the upper fide, and 
white underneath. The Stalk is thick and filmy, and the Flowers 
are fmall and of a pale crimlbn. 
. 4. CRIMSON TU-SSILAGO. 
Plate 19. Fig. 4. 
Charafler of the Species. TuflIIago alprna. 
The Leaves are fmall, and roundifh, but hearted at the 
bafe and dented. 
Fig. 4. a^b. 
This alfo is a perennial; a fmall, low Plant, native of Germany, 
and flowers early in Spring. The Leaves are of a dark green, but 
hoary underneath ; and the weak Stalk fupports a Angle Flower. 
%*Linn^us joins the Tuflilago and Petafites in one Genus. They 
are diftindt ; but the third Species connedts the two Genera in the 
order of Nature. 
GENUS III. 
FI E L E N I A. 
Charadter of the Genus. 
The Cup fpreads broad ; its Scales are Ihort, large at the 
Bafe, and narrow upwards. 
Plate 20. Fig. I. a.b. 
Of this fingular Genus we know only one Species 
ABATED 
