SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. Tussilago. 933 
old stone walls at the Rookery, and other like situations, in the parish of 
Brisling-ton, near Bristol; and by the road side two or three miles from 
Clevedon, Somersetshire, approaching from Bristol. E.) 
B. July—Sept, (also early in Spring. FI. Brit. E.) 
TUSSILA'GO.* Recept. naked: Down hair like : Calyx tu¬ 
mid at the base ; scales equal, as tall as the surface of 
florets, somewhat membranous : (Seed obovate, compress¬ 
ed. E.) 
T. far'fara.F Stalk single-flowered, tiled: leaves somewhat heart-* 
shaped, angular, finely toothed. 
Curt .— (E. Bot. 429. E.)— Kniph. 6 — Walc.—Ludw. 50 — Blackw. 204 — Fl. 
Ban. 595 — Woodv. 13— H . Ox. vii. 12, row 1. 1, f 1 — Bod. 596. 1, and 2 
»— Lob. Obs. 320. 1 and 2, and Ic. i. 589. 1 and 2 — Ger. Em. 811 — Ger. 
666— Park. 1220—Pet. 17. 8 and 7— Fuchs. UO—J. B. iii. b. 563. 3— 
Trag. 418 — -Matth. 844— Lonic. i. 226. 2. 
J Root creeping (far and wide. E.) Leaves appearing as the flowers are 
going off, with several blunt lobes sharply toothed, green above with 
reddish veins, white and cottony underneath, the cotton easily rubbing 
off. Leaf-stalks long, reddish brown. Stalks numerous solitary or in 
clusters, three to five inches high, lengthening after flowering, cottony, 
clothed with spear-shaped scales embracing the stalk, of a green mixed 
with brown. Flowers while in blossom upright, after flowering hanging 
down, but when the down of the seeds expands becoming upright again. 
Calyx , scales strap-shaped, reddish brown. Blossoms yellow. Florets of 
the circumference very narrow, in two or three rows, as long as the calyx, 
expanding. Florets of the centre tubular, swelling upwards ; clefts five, 
spear-shaped, bent back. Summit before the anthers have discharged 
their pollen covered by them, club-shaped and simple, but afterwards 
lengthened beyond them. Bown sessile, longer than the calyx. Woodw. 
Common Colt’s-foot. (Irish: Ahain. Welsh: Alan by chan ; Cam yr 
ebol. Gaelic : An gallon gainbliich ; chluas-liath . 
Pastures and moistish places, in moist, s tiff, clayey soil, and on lime¬ 
stone rubbish. P. March—April.+ 
* (From tussis, a cough, the plant being useful in allaying pectoral disorders. E.) 
*|* Farfarus, from its leaves resembling those of the White Poplar, (so called by the 
ancients) as 
—- c< Eos prosternebam ut folia Farfari .”—Plaut. Paen. E.) 
t It is the firstplant that vegetates in marl or limestone rubble, (and is very injurious to 
ploughed lands. Holdich observes that every part of the root will produce a plant, and 
though buried to the depth of a yard or more, it will vegetate, send up a stem to the sur¬ 
face, and spread with astonishing rapidity. It must never be suffered to produce flowers, or 
fully expand its leaves. Draining, paring, and burning, followed by a naked summer fal¬ 
low, with hoeing in due season, will completely eradicate this nuisance. E.) The downy sub¬ 
stance on the under surface of the leaves, wrapped in rag, dipped in a solution of saltpetre, 
and dried in the sun, makes the best tinder. The leaves are the basis of the British Herb 
Tobacco. (Pliny records its being used for smoking in ancient times as a remedy for ob¬ 
stinate coughs, and recommends both the roots and leaves. E.) They are somewhat austere, 
bitterish, and mucilaginous to the taste. They were formerly much esteemed in coughs and 
consumptive complaints; and perhaps not without reason, for Dr. Cullen found them of 
considerable service in scrophulous cases; he gave a decoction of the dried leaves, which suc¬ 
ceeded where sea water failed, Mat, Med. p. 458.—Fuller relates the case of a girl, with twelve 
