. Flowers of the field. Botany. COMPOSITE A. Absinthium, but smaller ; leaves twice pinnatifid with many, very narrow, blunt segments, with white down on both sides ; heads in racemes, drooping or erect.—Salt marshes; Fl. July —September. Perennial. 5.* A. Stelleridna, a densely whitc-felte& species, with pinnati- fid leames, with broad, obtuse lobes, and a .nearly simple raceme of large, erect flower- heads, is naturalised in 'places on the coast. 23. '1' U .S S I L \ G O .(•Colt's-foot).—7t'//?"co;;!e 'creeping ; leaves large, radical; heads solitary, yellow, many-flowere
. Flowers of the field. Botany. COMPOSITE A. Absinthium, but smaller ; leaves twice pinnatifid with many, very narrow, blunt segments, with white down on both sides ; heads in racemes, drooping or erect.—Salt marshes; Fl. July —September. Perennial. 5.* A. Stelleridna, a densely whitc-felte& species, with pinnati- fid leames, with broad, obtuse lobes, and a .nearly simple raceme of large, erect flower- heads, is naturalised in 'places on the coast. 23. '1' U .S S I L \ G O .(•Colt's-foot).—7t'//?"co;;!e 'creeping ; leaves large, radical; heads solitary, yellow, many-flowered ; narrow, in i row; .reeeptaele naked ; ray- flurels narrow, m several rows ; disk-florets few ; pappus of slender, silky hairs. (Name from the Latin tiissis, a cough, from the use to which --it is applied.) I. T. Fdrjara (Colt's- foot).—The only species ; leaves, which do not appear until the flower-hcads are withered, roundish, cordate, and angular, cobwebby above, with dense, white down be- neath ; peduneles with scale-like bracts, elon- gating after flowering ; heads bright yellow, about i inch across, drooping before e\pansi(jn ; pappus snoW-white.—Clayey fields ; abundant. A pernicious \vi,ed, the leaves of which are made into cigars for asthmatic persons. The ,down on their under surfaces was formerly u^ed as tinder, and the goldfinch fre- quently lines its nest with the |-F1. February, March. PETA&ITES HYliRlDU^ {Connumi B tl ttcr-luH')-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
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