60 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



On heaths, meadows, and in bushy places, and by the sides of 

 roads and ditches. Rather common, and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 



E-ootstock creeping. Stem erect, 1 to 2 feet high, stiff, angular 

 and pubescent towards the top, where it is generally branched. 

 Leaves variable in breadth, sometimes very narrow, rather rigid, 

 the serratures with a more or less evident usually denticulate car- 

 tilaginous jnargin. Anthodes f inch across, rather few, in a some- 

 what lax flat-topped corymb. Outer phyllaries lanceolate, inner 

 ones strapshaped obtuse, all with a prominent central nerve not 

 reaching the apex. Ray-florets rather longer than broad, bluntly 

 3-toothed at the apex ; disk-florets greenish-white. Plant dull- 

 green, rather shining. Stem glabrous below, slightly downy above, 

 and the upper leaves often with a few hairs. 



Sneeze-wort Yarrow. 



French, Achillee Bouton d" Argent. German, Bertram Garhe. 



The young shoots of this plant are sometimes eaten as salad in spring; and the 

 leaves are said to be made into tea in North Wales for the cureof headache ; and a pleasant 

 writer on wild flowers, who does not give us her name, says that she knows some old 

 folks, who in their childhood drank no other tea, before the use of Chinese tea became 

 so universal. The roots have a pungent, biting taste, and when chewed, cause a 

 copious discharge of saliva, thereby relieving toothache ; they are often sold in the 

 shops for the pellitory of Spain. The double variety, sometimes called batchelor's 

 buttons, is considered ornamental in gardens ; but it should be admitted with caution, 

 the roots extending more than is desirable. 



Tribe II.— ARTEMISIE^. 



Leaves alternate. Anthodes discoid, homogamous or hetero- 

 gamous. Elorets all tubular, those of the centre perfect or male, 

 those of the circumference female or all perfect ; female florets 

 with the limb more or less oblique. Anthers with the lobes 

 rounded or apiculate at the base. Style of the perfect flowers 

 with linear branches furnished with a pencil of hairs. Achenes 

 fusiform, sub-cylindrical or compressed, without ribs. Pappus 

 none. Inflorescence paniculate, racemose or spicate. 



GENUS XIII.—A RTEMISIA. Zinn. 



Anthodes homogamous or heterogamous, several-flowered, 

 discoid. Clinanth flat or convex, naked or hairy, but without 

 scales. Pericline hemispherical or ovoid or oblong-ovoid, of 

 numerous imbricated herbaceous phyllaries with scarious margins. 



