TANACETUM. 



powers. The plant however does not agree with every stomach. Smith. 

 Withering says that if meat is rubbed with Tansy leaves, the flesh-fly 

 will not touch it. 



EMILIA. 



Head many-flowered, homogamous. Florets tubular, 5-lobed : 

 the lobes long and linear. Receptacle flat, scarcely honeycombed. 

 Involucre ovate-cylindrical, in 1 row, with a calyculus ; the 

 scales linear, reflexed after flowering. Branches of the style 

 terminated by a short hispid cone. Achaenia oblong, penta- 

 gonal, with ciliated hispid angles. Pappus in several rows, con- 

 sisting of filiform hardly feathery setae. DC. 



947. E. sonchifolia DC. prodr. vi. 302. — Cacalia sonchifolia 

 Linn, sp.pl. 1169. Crassocephalum sonchifolium Less. syn. 395. 

 Emilia purpurea Cass. diet, xxxiv. 393. (Rheede x. t. 68. Humph. 

 v. t. 103. f. 1.) — East Indies, China, Isle of France. 



An annual plant sparingly pubescent or smooth and somewhat glau- 

 cous, erect or spreading. Lower leaves lyrate or obovate, toothed, 

 tapering to the base ; the cauline sagittate or cordate amplexicaul, with 

 either obtuse or acute auricles, and either smooth or downy. Corymbs 

 few-headed. Heads on long stalks, purple or orange purple. Florets 

 30-50, the exterior erect. — The decoction of the leaves is used in 

 India as a febrifuge. 



ARNICA. 



Head many-flowered, beterogamous. Florets of the ray in 

 1 row, 2 , ligulate ; of the disk <f, tubular, 5-tootbed. Involucre 

 campanulate, in 2 rows, with linear-lanceolate equal scales. 

 Receptacle fringed, hairy. Tube of the corolla shaggy ; some- 

 times some rudiments of sterile stamens remaining in the ligulae. 

 Style of the disk with long arms, covered by down running a 

 long way down, and truncated or terminated by a short cone. 

 Achasnium somewhat cylindrical, tapering to each end, some- 

 what ribbed and hairy. Pappus in 1 row, composed of close, 

 rigid, rough hairs. DC. 



948. A. montana Linn. sp. 1245. Fl. dan. t. 63. Schkuhr. 

 handb. t. 248. DC. prodr. vi. 317. — Doronicum montanum 

 Lam. diet. ii. 312. (Clus. hist. iv. 18. f. 1.) — Meadows of the 

 cooler parts of Europe from the sea coast to the limits of eternal 

 snow. (Mountain Tobacco.) 



A perennial rather hairy plant. Leaves entire, opposite ; the radical 

 obovate or oblong, 5-nerved ; the cauline in 1 or 2 pairs. Stem 1-3- 

 headed. Heads erect or drooping. Involucres rough with glands. — 

 A virulent plant, as is asserted, acting as a powerful narcotico-acrid 

 agent ; it is said to owe its noxious qualities to the presence of Cytisine. 

 The activity of Arnica seems, however, to have been exaggerated. It 

 has been recommended in the cure of putrid fever, ague, palsy, amaur- 

 osis, &c. &c; and on the Continent has obtained the name of Panacea 

 lapsorum. 



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