TANSY 187 



A Scind soil is ihe chief reciuircmeiit ot Stinl-;ini4" Mayweed, but it is 

 also satisfied with rock soils of many diftereni types and ages. 



A beetle, Apion sorbi, and three moths, Chamomile Shark [Ciiciillia 

 c/iinno»ii/l(c), Eupcecilia antheiuidiaiia, and Lozopera siucatliiuaintiniia, 

 live on it. 



Antkeinis is trom the (ireck aiilhos, a llower; antl Lolitla, ilruiilels, 

 is a Greek word for a small cup or hollow \'essel. 



The names by which it is chiefly known are Balder Brae, Baldeye- 

 brow. Camomile, Dog's or Stinking Camomile, Camovyne, Dog or 

 Horse Daisy, Dog-binder, Dog-fennel, Dog-finkle, Flowan, Hog's 

 Fennel, Jayweed, Madder, Madenwede, Marse, Marg, Mathes, May- 

 weed, Morgan, Murg, Poison Daisy. Balder's Brae, i.e. Baldur's 

 Brow, refers to the white brow of Baldur, the popular northern deity, 

 ;iven in Sweden. The prose Edda speaking of Baldur says: "So 

 fair and dazzling is he in form and features that rays of light seem to 

 issue from him, and thou ma\\st have some idea of his beauty when 

 I tell thee that the whitest of all plants is called Baldur's Brow". 



This plant was once used lor hysteria, hicmorrhage, swellings, 

 scrofula, rheumatism. It is acrid. 



Essential Specific Characters:— 



158. Anthcmis Cofu/a, L. — Stem liranched, erect, furrowed, angular, 

 leaves bi[)innatifid, glabrous, linear segments, lluw crheads white, with 

 yellow disk, ray florets without st\les, phyllaries with menfljranous 



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margms. 



Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare, L.) 



Usually associated with cultivation or gardens, this plant has been 

 m(-t with in Early Glacial beds at Beeston, Norfolk, at the base of the 

 Arctic fre.shwater bed. It is found in the North Temperate and 

 Arctic Zones in Arctic Europe, Siberia, N.W . America, and has been 

 introduced into the I'nited States. It is general in Great Britain, but 

 is not found in Cardigan, Flint, Mid Lanes, Linlithgow, Main Argyle, 

 Dumbarton, and is often naturalized. In Scotland it is doubtfully wild, 

 and certainly not so in Ireland. 



Tansy is one of the plants whose status is very doubtful. It may 

 be found by the side of a stream in an ap|)arently native station, or by 

 the roadside at a distance from a house, or along the hedgerow^s, in 

 fields of corn, where it has been said to be a pest, difficult to eradicate. 

 At other times it turns up on waste ground, and is then undoubtedl)' 

 a straggler from elsewhere. It is often to be seen growing in cottage 

 gardens. 



