50 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Arracacha xanthorrhiza, Bancroft. 



Mountain -regions of Central America. A perennial umbelliferous 

 herb. The root is nutritious and palatable. There are yellow, 

 purple and pale varieties, which are kept up by division of the 

 roots. 



Artemisia Abrotanum, Linne. 



Countries at the Mediterranean Sea. A very odorous shrub, 

 known as " Southern Wood." The foliage used in domestic 

 medicine, also as condiment. The plant is easily grown from 

 cuttings. 



Artemisia Absinthium, Linne. 



Europe, North- and Middle-Asia and North -Africa. The 

 " Wormwood." A perennial herb, valuable as a tonic and anthel- 

 minthic. Should be avoided, where bees are kept [Mn enter], 

 although an absinthine honey might be used medicinally. Indi- 

 genous in Norway to lat. 63 28 ; north, but cultivated quite to 70" 

 [Prof. Schuebeler]. Recommended for cultivation as a prevent - 

 ative of various insect-plagues, even the Phylloxera. Several other 

 species of Artemisia deserve cultivation for medicinal purposes. 

 Active principles : Absinthin, an oily substance indurating to a 

 crystalline mass ; also a volatile oil peculiar to the species. 



Artemisia Cina, Berg. 



Kurdistan. This herb furnishes the genuine santonica-seeds (or 

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

 Some other Asiatic species yield a similar drug, which should only 

 consist of young headlets of flowers ; the chemical principle San- 

 tonin is obtained from them. 



Artemisia Dracunculus, Linne. 



Northern Asia. The "Tarragon" or " Estragon." A perennial 

 herb, used as a condiment. Its flavor depends on two volatile oils, 

 one of them peculiar to the plant. Hardy in Norway to lat. 63 52' 

 [Schuebeler]. Propagation by division of root. The wild plant 

 has but little flavor [Vilmorin]. 



Artemisia Mutellina, Villars. 



Alps of Europe. This aromatic, somewhat woody plant deserves 

 to be established in any alpine region. This species 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 Southern Europe, Western Asia. More aromatic and 

 less bitter than the ordinary wormwood. Hardy to lat. 63 45' in 



