60 EXGLISU BOTANY. 



On heaths, meadows, and in bushy places, and by the sides of 

 roads and ditches. Rather common, and generally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 



Rootstock creeping. Stem erect, 1 to 2 feet high, stiff, angular 

 and pubescent towards the top, where it is generally branclied. 

 Leaves variable in breadth, sometimes very narrow, rather rigid, 

 the serratures with a more or less evident usually denticulate car- 

 tilaginous margin. Anthodes f inch across, rather few, in a some- 

 what lax flat-topped corymb. Outer phyllaries lanceolate, inner 

 ones strapshaped obtuse, all with a prominent central nerve not 

 reaching the apex. Ray-florets rather longer than broad, bluntly 

 3-toothed at the apex ; disk-florets greenish-white. Plant dull- 

 green, rather shining. Stem glabrous below, slightly downy above, 

 and the upper leaves often with a few hairs. 



Sneeze-wort Yarrow. 



French, AchiUee Bouton (T Argent. German, Bertram Garhe. 



The young shoots of this plant are sometimes eaten as salad in spring; and the 

 leaves are said to be made into tea in North Wales for the cure of headache ; and a pleasant 

 writer on wild flowei's, who does not give us her name, says that she knows some old 

 folks, who in their chihlliood drank no other tea, before the use of Chinese tea became 

 BO universal. The roots have a pungent, biting taste, and when chewed, cause a 

 copious discharge of saliva, thereby relieving toothache ; they are often sold in the 

 shops for the pellitory of Spain. The double variety, sometimes called batchelor's 

 buttons, is considered ornamental in gardens ; but it should be admitted with caution 

 the roots extending more than is desirable. 



Tribe II.— ARTEMISIE^. 



Leaves alternate. Anthodes discoid, homogamous or hetero- 

 gamous. Florets all tubular, those of tlie centre perfect or male, 

 those of the circumference female or all j^erfcct ; female florets 

 with the liml) more or less oblique. Anthers with the lobes 

 rounded or apiculate at the base. Style of the perfect flowers 

 with linear branches furnished with a pencil of hairs. Achcnes 

 fusiform, sub-cylindrical or compressed, without ribs. Pappus 

 none. Inflorescence paniculate, racemose or spicate. 



GEN US JLliL—K RTEMISIA. Unn. 



Anthodes homogamous or heterogamous, several-flowered, 

 discoid. Clinanth Hat or convex, naked or hairy, but without 

 scales. Pericline hemispherical or ovoid or oblong-ovoid, of 

 numerous imbricated herbaceous phyllaries with scarious margins. 



