N. 0. COMPOSITE. 705 



tomentose beneath. Scapes 1, or more, 4-10in., tomentose ; bright 

 yellow, drooping in bud, 1-1J in. Flowers, female, multiseriate, 

 fertile ligule narrow, spreading. Disk-flowers hermaphrodite, 

 sterile, tubular, limb-elongate 5-fid. Involucre campanulate or 

 cylindric ; bracts 1-seriate, equal, with a few very small outer 

 ones. Receptacle flat, naked. Anther-bases entire, or subanricled, 

 style-arms of hermaphrodite flowers entire, obtuse. Achenes 

 of female flowers linear, 5-10-ribbed, with soft snow-white 

 pappus. 



Uses : — The leaves are sometimes applied to wounds (Ste- 

 wart). In Europe, they are smoked like tobocco, as a domestic 

 remedy for asthma. 



Pliny records its being used for smoking, and recommends 

 it as a remedy for obstinate colds and coughs, and recommends 

 both the roots and leaves. 



Dr. Cullen recommends the use of the leaves in scrofula. 

 According to him, the expressed juice of the fresh leaves, taken 

 to some ounces every day, occasioned the healing up of scroful- 

 ous sores ; a strong decoction of the dried leaves seems to have 

 answered the same purpose. 



670. Doronicum Hookeri, Clarke Mss., h.f.b.i., 

 hi. 332. 



Vern. : — Darunaj-akrabi (Pb.). 



Habitat : — Sikkim Himalaya ; Lachen and Tungu. 



A robust herb, l-2ft. high. Radical leaves 0, or soon 

 withering; cauline 4-6 by l-2in., often unequal-sided. 

 Leaves all narrowed into short, J amplexicaul, petioles oblong or 

 elliptic lanceolate, obtuse or acute, entire or irregularly toothed. 

 Heads 2Jin. diam. Involucre-bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. 

 Ligules about half as long. Achenes rife ; not seen, says Hooker. 

 Pappus short, reddish. 



Use : — The root is an aromatic tonic, said to be used to pre- 

 vent giddiness on ascending heights. (Baden-powelk 

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