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grown in our gardens. It was formerly valued as a tonic, and given for agues and 

 low fevers ; hence its common name, which is a corruption of " febrifuge." Among 

 the recommendations in Gerarde's Herbal, we find the Feverfew extolled when dried 

 and made into powder ; and " two drams of it taken with honey or sweet wine, it 

 purgeth by siege melancholy and flegme ; wherefore it is very good for them that are 

 giddie in the head, or which have the turning called Vertigo, that is, a swimming and 

 turning in the head. Also it is good for such as be melancholike, sad, pensive, and 

 without speech." 



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SPECIES lY.-CHRYSANTHEMUM TANACETUM. 



Plate DCCXYI. 



Jiekh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Yol. XYI. Tab. CilXCYI. 



miot, FL Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1897. 



Tanacetum vulgare, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1229. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 180. 



ffook & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 244. Benth. Handbook Brit. Fl. p. 299. I). C. 



Prod. Yol. YI. p. 128. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 407. Fries, 



Sum. Yeg. Scand. p. 2. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Yol. II. p. 137. C. H. SchuUs, 



1. c, p. 52. 



Leaves pinnate, with very numerous pairs of pinn^ ; leaflets 

 oblong-strapshaped, deeply pinnatifid ; lobes serrate or entire ; 

 lower leaves shortly stalked, the upper semi - amplexicaul, sub- 

 glabrous. Anthodes corymbose, discoid. Pericline hemispherical, 

 with the exterior phyllaries lanceolate, bluntly keeled on the back ; 

 inner ones oblong, obtuse at the apex, with scarious pale fawn- 

 coloured margins. Marginal florets female, not longer than the 

 tubular perfect ones of the disk, obliquely truncate at the apex, the 

 ligule scarcely apparent, 3-toothed, yellow. Achenes cylindrical- 

 prismatic, enlarged upwards, equally 5-ribbed. 



In hedge-banks, roadsides, borders of fields, and dry pastures. 

 Eather sparingly but generally distributed, though probably not 

 native in many of its localities, especially those in the iS'orth of 

 Scotland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 



Eootstock creeping, stoloniferous. Stem erect, tough, 1 to 3 feet 

 high, generally dull-purple, simple below, corymbosely branched at 

 the apex in large examples, and terminated by a compact nearly 

 simple corymb of numerous anthodes. Leaves with the lobes of the 

 pinnatifid leaflets acute, serrate on the outside, with dots containing 

 essential oil.. Peduncles slender, naked, slightly thickened below 

 the heads. Anthodes i to ^ inch across, bright -yellow. Clinanth 

 hemispherical. Eemale florets sometimes absent. Achenes greenish- 

 white, glabrous, frequently sprinkled with resinous dots, crowned 

 by a short membranous uneven border. Plant dark-green, nearly 



