200 A COMPENDIUM OF 
high, adorned with ovate lanceolate leaves on 
long petioles, which distinguish the lower from 
the upper leaves, which are sessile and wedge 
shaped; flowers numerous, yellow in color, and 
in panicle corymbs, the long peduncles bearing 
from one to three flowers on each. The entire 
plant is pubescent. Fleabane is a native of 
North America, found abundantly growing in 
old fields and waste pasture land; odor not pe- 
culiar; taste bitter and herby. Fleabane con- 
tains tannin, some sugar extractive matter, and 
trace of volatile oil. Fleabane is diuretic, tonic 
and diaphoretic in its action, and at one time 
highly thought of as aremedy. The infusion 
is made by adding one ounce of the plant to 
one pint of boiling water, the dose of which is 
1 or 2 fluid ounces. For further account see 
Dispensatory, page 1638, non-officinal drugs. 
The name is derived from two Greek words— 
er, Spring, and geron, an old man, because of 
the white, hairy or hoary appearance of the 
plant. 
Eupatorium, Thoroughwort, Eupatorium 
Perfoliatum.—Natural order Composite; com- 
monly known as the boneset. This plant sends 
up from its perennial root a stem from two to 
five feet high, adorned with opposite leaves — 
with serrated edges; upper surface rough and 
the under side pubescent; about four or five 
inches long and of a grayish green color; they 
have no petioles, but adhere closely to the stem. 
The stems and the leaves are the parts used in 
medicine. The flowers are white, numerous, 
and supported on pubescent peduncles, and as- 
sume the corymbus form of infloresence. The 
