TARAXACUM, 



Dens-leonis Dandelion 



Under date of November 30th, 1902, H. S. 

 McCauley told the Physicians' Club that 

 100,000 children in Chicago did not know a 

 rose from a dandelion. After an investigation 

 in three of the largest schools it was found 

 that the charges were true. With children as 

 old as fourteen years, "lilocks, daisies, lily 

 buds" were the joyous cries shrilled forth when 

 violets were exhibited. Largely in all the 

 graded schools of Beaver county, nature 

 studies are taught by displaying in school room 

 windows plants, nests and mounted insects. 



TANACETUM, 



VULGARE 



Introduced into the county by Dr. Barney 

 Dustan, at Darlington in 1812. The doctor 

 was the first physician in the county to abandon 

 the barbarous and useless process of bleeding. 

 He was known as the "Botanical Doctor" and 

 With tansy, celandine, wormwood and whiskey, 

 obtained many marvelous cures. 



TEUCRIUM, 



Tansy 



Canadense Germander 



Sometimes called wood sage, the leaves being 

 rich in a volatile oil. Named for Teucer, 

 kmg of Troy. The lower lobe of flowers broad 

 and furnishes a good landing for the Andrea 

 ground bees, seeking the nectar and pollen. 



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