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PERtCÁLLIS Tussiláginis.
CoWs-foot-leaved Pericallis.
Linnean Class and Order. S Y N G E N E S IA P O L Y G A M IA S U P
E R F L U A .
Natural Order. C OM PO S IT Z E . Aduns. fa m . 2. p . 103.
Fam. V I I I . S e n e c i o n e * . Cass, in jo um . phys. 82. p . 131.
P E R IC A L L I S . Involucrum simplici ordine multipartitum, ®quale,
basi dilatatum, omninò ebracteolatum. Receptaculum planum, fdilatatum,
scrobiculatum. Floseuli ra d ii ligulati, fceminei, uniseriales ; disci herma-
phroditi, tubulosi, 5-dentati : sty li ramis compressis, apice truncatis papii-
losis. Antheree coalit®, basi mutic®, appendiculà membranaceà coronai®.
Achenia erostria, sulcata ; in radio compressiuscula, glabra ; in disco subte-
retia, undique papilloso-micantia. P appus capillaris ; radiis duplici ordine
digestís, denticulis scabris, basi solutis, caducis, in flosculo foemineo
paucioribus mox evanidis.
Herb® v. suffrutices (In s . Canar.) fo liis cordatis, capitulis corymbosis,
radio plerumque purpureo.
Obs. Genus benè naturale, habitu Tussiláginis, involucro Othonn®,
corollà Senecionis. D . Don Mss.
P . Tussilaginis, foliis cordatis angulatis subtùs tomentosis, petiolis basi
auritis, capitulis corymboso-paniculatis.
Cineraria Tussilaginis. L ’He rit. sort. angl. p . 26. Willd. sp. p i. 3. p . 2078.
Persoon syn. 2. p . 439. Spreng. syst. 3. p . 548.
Senecio Tussilaginis. L in d l. in bot. reg. 1 .1550.
Root fibrous. Stems about a foot high, upright, branched,
round, solid, striated, becoming quite smooth. Leaves cordate,
stalked, angular, sharply toothed, ribbed, green, and
hairy above, white and woolly beneath ; those of the stem
rather oblong, acuminate, sharply toothed, 2 or 3 inches in
length ; upper ones clasping the stem ; the uppermost ovate,
acuminate, cucullate, membranous, purplish. Capitula numerous,
in a corymbose panicle. Pedunclas round, clavate,
nearly glabrous, furnished with a few lanceolate, acuminate,
adpressed, membranous bractes. Lmolucrum simple, multipartite,
smooth, with a broad, fiattened, naked base ; the
segments lanceolate, acuminate, arranged in a single series,
connivent, equal, smooth, with a membranous border, partly
stained with purple. Receptacle Aat, slightly pitted. Plo-
rets of the ray from 12 to 13, disposed in a single series, fe-
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