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Show COLTSFOOT. SLE in a rag, dippedin a solution of saltpetre, and dried in the sun, makes the best tinder. The leaves are the basis of the British herb tobacco. ‘They are somewhat austere, bitterish, and mucilaginous to the taste. They were formerly muchused in coughs and consumptive complaints ; and perhaps not without reason, for Dr. Cullen has found them to do considerable service in scrophulous cases; he gives a decoction of the dried leaves, and finds it succeed where sea water has failed.—Cullen’s Mat. Med. p. 458. And Fuller relates a case of a girl, with twelve scrophulous sores, who was cured by drinking daily as much as she could, for above four months, of a decoction of the leaves made so strong as to be sweetish and glutinous. Dr. Percival found it useful in hectic diarrhoeas.—Essays Med. and Exper. vol. ii. p. 224. A decoction with wormwoodhas done wonders in calculous complaints. The common people use it as tea, sweetened with honey, for colds and asthmas; and find relief, if not a cure. COLTS#0:T. TUSSILAGO FARFARA. se Class XUX. Syngenesia. Essent. Gen. Cuar. Order 11. Polygamiasuperfiua. Receptacle naked: Pappus simple: Scales of the Calyx equal, equalling the disk, submembranous. Serc, Cuar. Scape one-flowered, imbricated: Leaves subcordate, angled, toothed. ——— . DESCRIPTION. Tus plant rises six or eight inches. The scape is covered with small pointed purplish leaves, like scales. The leaves are very large, irregularly toothed, of a bright green above, downy and white beneath, standing upon long radical footstalks. ‘The flowers are large, yellow; those in the ray are very visible. HISTORY. Native of Kingland, common in moist clayey places ; the flowers usually appear before the leaves, andit flowers in March and April. MEDICAL VIRTUE. I It is thefirst plant that vegetates in marleor limestone rubble. The downy substance on the undersurface of the leaves, wrapped |