1 62 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



The sunflower is Helianthus annuus. 



. . . " the sunflower, shining fair, 

 Eays round with flame her disk of seed." Tennyson. 



The seeds are much eaten in Central Asia and in Russia. " The 

 Russian peasant is never completely happy unlesshe is cracking and 

 chewing the seeds of the sunflower." Harper's Mag. It is an 

 American plant, as is H. tuberosus, the Jerusalem artichoke. The 

 dahlias also belong to this tribe. 



(6) HELENIOIDE^;. 



24. FLA.VIERIA. 



F. repanda. Prostrate or spreading with jointed stems, leaves 

 stem clasping, lanceolate, dilated at the base with very small 

 sessile yellow florets clustered there, bracts 4, leaf-like. 



An imported plant, not given by H. nor by Z). or G., but com- 

 mon in gravel walks, &c., at Poona and elsewhere. It is not easy to 

 identify as belonging to this order, as the florets appear to be 

 quite independent. It resembles Csesulia in this and other respects. 



(7) ANTHEMIDEJE. 



25. ARTEMISIA. Wormwood. 



A. vulgaris (A. Indica, D.). Tall strong plant, the stem and 

 underside of flowers covered with white down, leaves pinnatifid 

 or much lobed, toothed and cut, flowers in panicles or racemes 

 very small, the yellowish florets almost hidden in the invo- 

 lucre, outer bracts leafy, inner dry. Daona, mastdru, surband. 



Deccan hills. Common at high elevations (If.). This, as H. has 

 identified it, is the common Mug wort of waste places in England. 

 Wormwood closely allied to this is several times mentioned in tke 

 Old Testament as symbolical of calamity or distress. Absinthe is 

 made from other species. 



* A. parviftora, leaves cuneate, often lobed or pinnatifid, with a 

 pair of stipule-like lobes at the base, flowers green, drooping, bracts 

 broad, the edges & carious. Dauni. Mahableshwar and Ghauts (D. 

 and H.). 



The chrysanthemums and camomiles (Anthemis) belong to this 

 tribe. 



(8) SENECIONIDE^E. 



26. EMILIA. 



E. sonchifoUa. A common and variable weed, smooth or 

 slightly glaucous, leaves lyrate or pinnatifid, stem-clasping, some- 

 times auricled, leaves in small umbels purple, florets very 



