CAMPANALS. 2 3 1 COMPOSITES. 
5. A. Dracunculus Linneus.—(Tarracon. Estragon sr.) 
Leaves green, smooth, linear-lanceolate, undivided ; flower-heads nearly 
round. 
Habitat. Siberia, Common in gardens. 
Quality. Warm, aromatic, slightly sialagogue. 
Uses. Chiefly employed as a pickle, and to flavour vinegar. The names, Dracunculus, 
Estragon, Tragon, Tarragon, are said to allude to the convolutions of the root, 
which have been compared to a dragon’s tail. 
Antuemis. Linneeus. 
Pappus 0. Florets of the ray @ or 0, in one row ; of the disk §. Bracts 
imbricated. Receptacle 
conical, scaly. Achewnia a10 
obscurely 4-cornered. ; 
1 A. nobilis Linneus.— 
(CHaMomILE.) Fig. 310. 
Perennial, prostrate ; leaves 
pinnate, downy, the 
lobes pinnatifid ; recep- 
__ tacle long, conical. 
Habitat. Pastures on gravel. 
Quality. Aromatic, bitter, tonic, 
| S ceemitic ts, dyspepsi 
n Ss 3) 
flatulence, colic, pit at 
Awnacycius. Linneus. 
i e Anthemis, except that the Achcenia are winged and obcordate. 
A. Pyrethrum De Candolle. Anthemis Pyrethrum Linneus.—(PELLI- 
,, TORY or Spain.) * 
Stems procumbent, downy ; radical leaves near] 
. 
innatifid segments and linear subulate lobes ; 
Habitat, Barbary Spain, Levant. 
Quality. Rubefacient; a very powerful local irritant; sialagogue. ia of the 
Uses, “As tincture for toothache ; chewed for palsy of the tongue, 
head and face ; as a gargle in relaxed uvula. 
y smooth, pinnate, with 
branches monocephalous. 
ne 
~ Fig. 310.—Anthemis nobilis ; a, the receptacle with a few florets 
ae Rarer 
adhering to it. 
