COMPOSIT A. 
Asterworts. 
N° 83. 
TANACETUM VULGARE. 
Tansy, Common Tansy. 
_ Place—Europe. 
Quality—Bitter. : 
Power—Tonic, stomachic, satholuitette. 
Use—Dyspepsia, hysterics, intermittents, worms, gout, 
&e. 
BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. 
Natural Order. Composite Discoidex.—L. Corym- 
bifere—J. 
Crass XIX. Syngenesia. Order Polygamia super flua. 
Linn. Sp. Pl. 1184. Willd Sp. Pt. 1814. Woodv. i. 115. Stephenson & 
Churchill ii. 96. Cullen Mat. Med. i, petit. Ency. Pl. 696. Raf. Med. Flor. ii. 
266. U.S. Dis. 703. T. & G. Flor. ii. 414. Griff. Med, Bot. 407. Per. El. Med. 
Bot. 407. Beach. Fam. Ph. 675. Wood. C. B. 350. 
Genus. TANACETUM, 
An alteration or corruption of a privative and @avaros death, a plant which does not 
perish, or possess durable flowers. 
Synonrmes.—Tanassie (F.) Rheinfarn (G.) Worm Kruid. (Dutch.) Rhreinfan 
(Dan.) Renfana (Swed.) Kiviat wrotyezowy (Pol.) Tanaceto (Z) Atanasia (S.) 
Tanasia (Port.) Dikajariabina ( Russ.) 
THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS 
Canyx. Cleely adherent to the ovary, The limb wanting, or 
_membranaceous, and divided into bristles, hairs, &e, called 
as ea 
