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Of those beasts no one was horned and tusked too: the 
superfluous blood not sufficing to feed both. Grew. 
TUSKEVAR, or Nagy Jeno, a small town in the 
west of Hungary, on the river Toma; 4 miles west of 
Vasarhely. 
TUSLA, a small town of the north-west of European 
Turkey, in Bosnia, near the river Save. 
TUSMORE, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire; 6 miles 
north by-west of Bicester. 
TUSPAN, a river of Mexico, in the intendancy of Vera 
Cruz, which runs into the gulf of Mexico, in lat. 21. 28. N. 
long. 98. W.—There is a settlement of the same name on its 
banks. 
TUSSEY, mountains of the United States, in Pennsylvania; 
10 miles north of Huntingdon. 
TUSSILAGO [from tussis, on account of its use in 
curing coughs], in Botany, a genus of the class syngenesia, 
order polygamia superflua, natural order of compositae dis- 
coideae, corymbiferae (Juss.)— Generic Character. Calyx: 
common cylindrical; scales lanceolate-linear (15 or 20), equal, 
as long as the disk, submembranaceous. Corolla compound, 
various.—Corollets in some all hermaphrodite and tubular, or 
only in the disk. Females: in some none, in others ligulate. 
Proper of the hermaphrodite funnel-form; border five-cleft 
(or four-cleft,) acute, reflexed, longer than the calyx. Fe¬ 
males none, or ligulate, very narrow, longer than the calyx, 
entire.—Stamina in the hermaphrodites; filaments five, ca¬ 
pillary, very short. Anther cylindric, tubular. Pistil in 
the hermaphrodites. Germ short. Style filiform, longer than 
the stamen. Stigma thickish.—In the females germ short. 
Style filiform, length of the hermaphrodite. Stigma bifid, 
thickish.-—Pericarp none. Calyx scarcely changed. Seeds 
in the hermaphrodites solitary, oblong, compressed. Down 
capillary, stipulate. In the females, if any, like the others. 
Receptacle naked.— Essential Character. Calyx: scales 
equal, is long as the disk, somewhat membranaceous. Down 
simple Receptacle naked. 
1. Tussilago anandria. See Perdicium Anandria.— 
Native of Siberia, and the northern provinces of China. 
2. Tussilago dentata.—Scape one-flowered, without any 
bracte; leaves lanceolate, toothed, villose.—Native of 
America. 
3. Tussilago albicans.—Scape one-flowered without any 
bracte; flower nearly erect; leaves lanceolate-ovate, tomen- 
tose beneath, indistinctly serrate backwards. Root annual, 
simple.—Native of Jamaica. 
4. Tussilago pumila.—-Scape one-flowered without any 
bracte, erect; leaves lyrate, gashed, toothletted, tomentose. 
Annual.—Native of Jamaica. 
5. Tussilago nutans.—Scape one-flowered without any 
bracte, flower nodding; leaves lyrate, obtuse. This is an 
annual stemless plant, about a foot high.—-Native of Jamaica. 
6. Tussilago alpina, or alpine colt’s-foot.-—Scape almost 
naked, one-flowered ; leaves cordate-orbicular, crenate. This 
is a low perennial plant.—Native of the Alps, Switzerland, 
Austria, the South of France, Piedmont, also of Siberia. 
7. Tussilago farfara, or common colt’s-foot.—Scape one- 
flowered, scaly; leaves cordate, angular, toothletted. Root 
perennial, creeping horizontally far and wide. Flowers so¬ 
litary, terminating, yellow, more conspicuous on account of 
their radiate form than most of the other species. The 
flowers come up early in the spring before the leaves, and 
at some distance from them: they are upright, but as soon 
as the bloom is past, and the seeds with their down as yet 
moist are inclosed within the calyx, the heads hang down; 
as the moisture evaporates in ripening they become lighter, 
are again erected,and thedown expands.—-Native of Europe, 
Siberia, and the northern provinces of China, in moist stiff 
clayey and marley soil. 
8. Tussilago Japonica.—Flowers alternate, radiate.—Na¬ 
tive of Japan. 
9. Tussilago frigida.—Thyrse fastigiate; flowers radiate. 
Root perennial, creeping, triangular, excavated at the base 
into a deep sinus, having seven or eight prominences on 
each side, smooth above, white-tomentose beneath. Petioles 
Von. XXIV. No. 1637. 
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slender, scarcely a span long. Scape a span high, round, 
having one or two broad membranaceous embracing wings, 
ending in the rudiment of a leaf.—Native of Lapland, Swit¬ 
zerland, Silesia, Dauphiue and Siberia. 
10. Tussilago palmata, or palmate-leaved colts-fooi— 
Thyrse fastigiate; leaves palmate, toothed.-—Native of New¬ 
foundland and Labrador. 
11. Tussilago alba, white colt’s-foot or butter-bur.— 
Thyrse fastigiate; female florets naked, few.—Native of se¬ 
veral parts of Europe. 
12. Tussilago hybrida, long-stalked colt’s-foot, or butter¬ 
bur.—Thyrse oblong; female florets numerous; hermaphro¬ 
dite florets very few ; anthers separate. Root perennial.— 
Native of Germany, Holland, Silesia, Switzerland, Dauphine, 
Piedmont, Britain ; by the sides of ditches. 
13. Tussilago paradoxa, downy-leaved colt’s-foot, or but¬ 
ter-bur.—Thyrse subovate; female florets naked, many ; her¬ 
maphrodites in threes; anthers free; leaves triangular-cor¬ 
date, toothletted.—Native of Switzerland. 
14. Tussilago petasites, or common butter-bur.—Thyrse 
ovate; almost all the florets hermaphrodite, syngenesious. 
Root perennial, creeping very far, and increasing rapidly so 
as to be extirpated with difficulty ; in which respect it agrees 
with the hybrida, as well as in the appearance and form of 
its leaves, which however are somewhat larger in this. The 
scape is rather shorter, and the thyrse is not so much length¬ 
ened out after flowering. The flowers are larger, and the 
scales of the calyx twice as long.—Native of Europe. Com¬ 
mon in Britain, on the banks of rivers and ditches; flower¬ 
ing in April. From the largeness of the leaves it had its 
Greek name Petasites. In English, butter-bur, from their 
being used formerly to wrap up butter in. 
Propagation and Culture. —These plants are easily pro- 
pogated by parting their roots in autumn, and must be 
planted in a moist shady border, where they will thrive, and 
require no farther care but to keep them clean from weeds. 
Colt’s-foot is a bad weed on some lands, especially such as 
have been over-cropped and exausted. Ploughing and har¬ 
rowing alone will not destroy it; but it must be drawn out 
by the roots, which may be easily done at no great expence 
where land is well tilled. Root weeds are hardly to be de¬ 
stroyed effectually any other way. 
TU'SSLE, s. A struggle: as, we had a tussle for it. 
Grose.—A vulgar expression. 
TU'SSUCK, s. A tuft of grass or twigs.—The first is re¬ 
markable for the several tussucks or bunches of thorns, 
wherewith it is armed round. Grew. 
TUT, interj. [This seems to be the same with tush. 
Dr. Johnson.- —The Welsh language, however, has twtt, 
twtti , the word used when we make light of a thing, as 
tush, tut; twt, a puff.] A particle noting contempt.— Tut, 
tut! grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle. Shale - 
speare. 
TUT A, a settlement of New Granada, in the province of 
Tunja, containing 50 housekeepers and 150 Indians. 
TUTANA, or Totana, a considerable town of the south¬ 
east of Spain, in the province of Murcia, on the great road 
by which that province communicates with Andalusia. 
It contains 8000 inhabitants; 18 miles east-north-east of 
Lorca. * 
TU'TANAG, s. The Chinese name for spelter, which 
we erroneously apply to the metal of which canisters are 
made, that are brought over with the tea from China; it 
being a coarse pewter made with the lead carried from En- 
gland and tin got in the kingdom of Quintang. Woodward. 
TUTAPISCO, a river of Quito, in the province of Quixos 
and Macas, which runs south-east, and enters the Payamino, 
on its east bank, in lat. 0. 36. S. 
TUTBURY, or Stutesbury, a market town of England, 
in the county of Stafford, situated on the west bank of the 
river Dove, over which there is a stone bridge of nine 
arches. It is noted for its ancient castle, which was one of 
the most famous in England. Contains 1235 inhabitants. 
Market on Tuesday discontinued. Three annual fairs; 15 
miles east of Stafford, and 134 north-west of London. 
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