18 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Achillea Millefolium, Linne. 



Yarrow or Millfoil. Europe, Northern Asia, and North-America. 

 A perennial medicinal herb of considerable astringency, pervaded 

 with essential oil, containing also a bitter principle (achillein) and 

 a peculiar acid, which takes its name from the generic appellation 

 of the plant. It stimulates stagnant intestinal states, exercises 

 beneficial catamenial forces, alleviates haemorrhoidal sufferings, used 

 to be a domestic remedy in ague, and is not without tonic value. 

 Fitted for warrens and light sandy soil. Recommended by many for 

 sheep-pastures, but disregarded by Langethal. Maintains its hold of 

 the ground through a long series of years, therefore not easily dis- 

 lodged for other plants. Found indigenous in Norway as far as 71 

 10' N. [Schuebeler]. 



Achillea moschata, Wulfen. 



Alps of Europe. The " G-enipi " or " Iva " of the Swiss. This 

 perennial herb ought to bear transferring to any other alpine moun- 

 tains. With the allied A. nana (Linne) and A. atrata (Linne) it 

 enters as a component into the aromatic medicinal Swiss tea. A. 

 fragrantissima (Reichenbach) is a shrubby species from the deserts of 

 Egypt, Turkey and Persia, valuable for its medicinal flowers. 



Achras Sapota, Linne". (Sapota Achras, Miller.) 



The " Sapodilla-Plum" of the West-Indies and Central America. 

 A fine evergreen tree, producing delicious fruit. Needs regions free 

 of frost. Yields also guttapercha. The bark possesses tonic proper- 

 ties. Achras Australis, R. Brown; (Sideroxylon Australe, J. Hooker), 

 a tree yielding also tolerably good fruit, occurs in New South Wales 

 and Queensland. Other sapotaceous trees, producing table-fruit, 

 such as the Lucuma mammosa (the Marmalade- tree), Lucuma Bon- 

 plandi, Chrysophyllum Cainito (the Star-Apple), all from West 

 India, and Lucuma Cainito of Peru, might also be subjected to trial- 

 culture in sub-tropical forest valleys; so furthermore many of the 

 trees of this order, from which guttapercha is obtained (species of Pala- 

 quium (Isonandra), Sideroxylon, Cacosmanthus, Illippe, Mimusops, 

 Imbricaria and Payenia), might prove hardy in sheltered woodlands, 

 as they seem to need rather an equable humid and mild climate, than 

 the heat of the torrid zone. 



Aciphylla glacialis, F. v. Mueller. 



Australian Alps. The root of this perennial herb is somewhat 

 aromatic, and is liked by pasture animals. It may prove of culinary 

 value. Would likely improve by culture. 



Aconitum Napellus, Linne". 



The Monk's Hood." In the colder parts of Europe and Asia, 

 extending to the Himalayas and also to arctic America, especially 

 in mountainous regions. A powerful medicinal plant of perennial 



