WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 
height. The firm, pointed, oblong or lance-shaped 
bright green leaves are sharply toothed and alter- 
nating. They possess a bitter taste, and when dried 
and powdered into snuff, produce violent sneezing. 
The foliage is believed to impart a bitter taste to milk, 
when cows forage upon it. The numerous large 
flower heads are borne on long stems in loose, spread- 
ing, rather flat-topped, terminal clusters. From ten 
to eighteen spreading and drooping ray florets, with 
three cleft tips surround the yellow or yellow-brown 
globular disk of tubular florets. The Swamp Sun- 
flower is found from Quebec to Florida, and west to 
the Northwest Territory and Arizona, and blooms 
from August to October. 
TANSY. BITTER BUTTONS. HINDHEEL. 
GINGER=PLANT 
Tanacétum vulgare. Thistle Family. — 
Tansy was one of the good old “standbys” of our 
grandmothers’ time, and was relied upon to cure any- 
thing and everything in the way of bodily ills that 
happened to disturb any member of the household, 
down on the farm. It was also one of the favourite 
plants in the flower beds that used to decorate the 
grass plots about our dear old homesteads. Its dried 
leaves were formerly used for flavouring or season- 
ing various dishes, particularly puddings and omelets. 
Tansy tea was also in great favour as a domestic tonic 
and stimulant, and is still used for various ailments of 
the stomach and liver. It is also used locally for 
relieving pain in muscular rheumatism and bruises. 
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