COLTON, a city of San Bernardino county, California, U.S.A., 58m. east of Los Angeles; served by the Pacific Electric, the Sante Fe, the Southern Pacific and the Union Pacific railways. The population was 4,282 in 1920, and was estimated locally at 8,000 in 1928. Citrus and other fruits and garden produce are packed and shipped in great quantities. There are limestone quarries near by. The city has cement, marble, lime and brick works, potteries, a fruit refrigeration plant and various other manufacturing industries. It was settled about 1873 and incor porated in 1887.
the popular name of a small herb, Tussilago Far f ara, a member of the family Compositae, which is common in Great Britain in damp, heavy soils. It has a stout, branching, underground stem, which sends up in March and April scapes about 6 in. high, each bearing a head of bright yellow flowers. The fruits bear a soft, snow-white, woolly pappus, somewhat like that of the dandelion. The leaves, which appear later, are broadly cordate with an angular or lobed outline, and are covered on the under-face with a dense white felt. They are smoked in cases of asthma. In eastern North America the colt's-foot has become ex tensively naturalized, having the appearance of a native plant, along banks, roadsides and the shores of streams from Nova Scotia to Minnesota and southward to Pennsylvania.