TUSSILA'GO ALPI'NA. 
ALPINE COLT’S-FOOT. 
Class. 
SYNGENESTA. 
Order. 
SUPERFLUA. 
Natural Order. 
COMPOSITjE. 
Native of 1 Height. 
Flowers 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Austria. ) 8 inches. 
Mar. May. 
Perennial. 
in 1710. 
No. 1231. 
Tussilago is a name adopted from the medicinal 
properties of the Tussilago farfara, or common Colt’s- 
foot. It is formed from the Latin tussis, a cough ; 
and ago, to cure. 
The Tussilago Alpina should never be wanting in 
a collection of alpine plants in pots, and although it 
will be liable to be lost in the borders without care, 
as indeed, will almost any other plant in the course 
of time, still amongst rock-work, with occasional 
transplanting, it may be considered safe. Low 
plants in the mingled flower-border usually suffer 
injury, and sometimes destruction, from being over- 
grown by their neighbours, especially annuals, which 
not unfrequently make most unwarrantable inroads 
on the legitimate domains of all who reside near 
them. 
Under No. 19, we published Tussilago fragans, a 
plant of which we would remind our readers. It 
may be confined in large pots, and thus sunk in the 
borders to restrain its wandering propensities, and 
its odoriferous Heliotrope-scented flowers, produced 
in winter, will richly repay the trouble bestowed on 
its culture. 
