Naturalisation in Extra-Tropical Countries. oo 



Artemisia Absinthium, Linne. 



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

 wood." A perennial herb, valuable as a tonic and anthelmiuthic. 

 Should be avoided, where bees are kept [Muenter], although an 

 absinthine honey might be used medicinally. Indigenous in Norway 

 to lat. 63 28' north, but cultivated quite to 70 [Prof. Schuebeler]. 

 Recommended for cultivation as a preventative of various insect- 

 plagues, even the Phylloxera. Several other species of Artemisia 

 deserve cultivation for medicinal purposes. Active principles : Ab- 

 sinthin, an oily substance indurating to a crystalline mass ; also a 

 volatile oil peculiar to the species. 



Artemisia Cina, Berg. 



Kurdistan. This herb furnishes 1 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 Santonin 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 

 Norway [Schuebeler]. Many other species of this genus deserve 

 attention of the culturist. 



Artocarpus communis, K. and U. Forster.* (A. incisa, Linne fil.) 

 South-Sea-Islands, Moluccas and Sunda-Islands. 

 The Tahiti " Breadfruit-tree." It stretches in the Sandwich- 

 Islands through cultivation almost beyond the tropics, ripening fruit 

 also in Florida, and ascending to 3,000 feet in Jamaica. Dies stil 

 down in unusually cool seasons at the tropic of Capricorn m East 

 Australia, when in a ypung state, unless protected during the coldest 

 weather According to Dr. Seemann's excellent account seedless 



