34 SELECT PLANTS FOR INDUSTRIAL CULTURE 



Artemisia Absinthium, Linne. 



The Wormwood. Europe, North and Middle Asia, and North 

 Africa. A perennial herb, valuable as a tonic and anthelminthic. 

 Should be avoided where bees are kept (Muenter). Several other 

 species of Artemisia deserve cultivation for medicinal purposes. 

 Active principles : Absinthin, an oily substance indurating to a 

 crystalline mass, a volatile oil peculiar to the species. 



Artemisia Cina, Berg. 



Kurdistan. This herb furnishes the genuine Santonica seeds (or 

 rather flowers and fruits) as a vermifuge of long-established use. 

 Some other Asiatic species yield a similar drug. 



Artemisia Dracunculus, Linne. 



The Tarragon or Estragon. North Asia. A perennial herb, used 

 as a condiment. Its flavour rests on two volatile oils, one of them 

 peculiar to the plant. 



Artemisia Mutellina, Villars. 



Alps of Europe. This aromatic, somewhat woody plant deserves 

 to be established in our snowy regions. This plant and A. glacialis, 

 L., A. rupestris, L., and A. spicata, Wulf., comprised under the 

 name of Genippi, serve for the preparation of the Extrait 

 d'Absinthe (Brockhaus). 



Artemisia Pontica, Linne. 



Middle and South Europe, "West Asia. More aromatic and less 

 bitter than the ordinary wormwood. Many other species of this 

 genus deserve attention of the culturist. 



Artocarpus incisa, Gr. Forster. 



The Tahiti Brea 1-Fruit Tree. It stretches in the Sandwich Islands 

 through cultivation almost beyond the tropics. The oldest name 

 o this well-known and remarkable tree is that given in 1776 by 

 R. & Gr. Forster, viz., A. communis. According to Dr. Seemaim's 

 excellent account seedless varieties exist, and others with entire 

 leaves and smooth and variously shaped and sized fruits ; others 

 again ripening earlier, others later, so that ripe bread-fruit is 

 obtainable more or less abundantly throughout the year. The fruit 

 is simply boiled or baked or converted into more complicated kinds 

 of food. Starch is obtainable from the bread-fruit very copiously. 

 The very fibrous bark can be beaten into a sort of rough cloth. 

 The light wood serves for canoes. The exudation issuing from cuts 

 made into the stem is in use for closing the seams of canoes. 



