Homogyne
(from homos, the same, similar, and gyne, female; so called from the similarity of the female flowers to the others) ORD. Compositae. A small genus, comprising but three species of stemless, hardy herbs, natives of the mountains of Europe. Flower-heads white or purple; scapes one or two-headed, furnished with one or two distant leaves. Leaves radical, broad, cordate, angular or sinuato-dentate. The species thrive in any tolerably damp garden border.
H. alpina (alpine). fl.-heads light purple, discoid; scape one-flowered, nearly naked. March to May. l. reniform, toothed, smooth. h. 6in. Austria, 1710. (B. M. 84, under name of Tussilago alpina.) H. discolor (two-coloured). fl.-heads inodorous; scape solitary, terete, purple, clothed with whitish wool. June and July. l. radical, sub-rotund, cordate at base, acutely crenulated, thick, firm; upper surface green, shining-glabrous, boldly nerved; under surface densely and shortly tomentose. h. 6in. Austria to Italy, 1633. (J. F. A. iii. 247, under name of Tussilago discolor.)