VI. 
ARNICA MONTANA. 
Mountain Arnica, German Leopard's Bane, Mountain 
Tobacco. 
Synonyms. —Arnica montana, Lin. Sp. Pl., 1245; Flor. Dan., ¢. 63; Schhuhr, 
Handb., t. 248; Villars, Dawph., iii., p. 257. Doronicum plantaginis folio 
alternum, Bauhin, wat, lib. v., sect.4; Tournefort, Class 14. Arnica montana 
foliis ovatis integris, caulinis geminis oppositis, Linn. Doronicum oppositifolium, 
Lamar., Dict. ii., p. 312. Doronicum Austriacum quartum, Cius, Pan., 522. 
Caltha alpina, Tabern. 336. Ptarmica montana, Daleschamp. Panacea lapsorum, 
Fehr. Chrysanthemum latifolium, Dodoneus. Nardus celtica altera, Pena and 
Lobel. 
Forrign Names.—Fr.: Arnique, Arnica, Tabac des Vosges, Bétoine des Mon- 
tagnes. Ital.: Arnica, Span.: Arnica, Tobaco de Montana. Germ,: Arnika, 
Wohl-verleih, Wolverley, Fallkraut, Luzianskraut. Dut.: Arnika, Val-kruid, 
Groot Luciaen-kruid. Swed.: Fibler. 
Nat. Order, Compositm, SENECIONIDH.—SYNGENESIA, 
Potyeamia SUPERFLUA. 
Gey. Cuar.—Calyx common, shorter than the ray of the corolla; leaf- 
lets lanceolate, the length of the calyx, erect. Corolla compound, 
radiate ; corollules hermaphrodite, in the disk very numerous; females 
in the ray about twenty; proper of the hermaphrodite, tubular, erect, 
five-cleft, equal; female lanceolate, very long, three-toothed, spreading. 
Stamens to the hermaphrodites : filaments very short, anthers cylindric ; 
to the females: filaments subulate, erect; anthers none. Pisti/: germen 
oblong; style simple, the length of the stamens; stigma bifid. Perianth 
none; calyx unchanged. Seeds solitary, oblong ; down simple; in the 
hermaphrodites pubescent, long. Receptacle naked. Corollules of the 
disk often trifid, with the outer division twice as broad as the others. 
Spec. Cuar.—Leaves ovate, entire; two opposite cauline leaves. 
Fig. 1. Hermaphrodite flower of the disk. 2. Floret of the ray. 3. The seed. 
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