ACHILLEA YARROW. 



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ANTHEMIS. —Chamomile. 



-Volatile oil, a bitter principle, and common vegetable 



Anthemis nobilis Linne. — Chamomile. 



Description. — Heads and flowers as in maruta, except that the rays' are 

 pistillate. Aohenia terete, striate, or smooth. Pappus none, or a minute 

 crown. 



A perennial, somewhat downy herb. Leaves 1- to 2-pinnately divided, 

 the ultimate segments as in maruta but fewer and more compact. 



Habitat. — Chamomile, a native of Europe, has been long cultivated in 

 gardens here, and has become naturalized to a very limited extent in New- 

 Jersey and Delaware. 



Part Used. — The flowers — official name, Anthemis — United States Phar- 

 macopoeia. 



Constituents. 

 constituents. 



Preparations. — None are official. It is most commonly employed in 

 infusion or decoction. The volatile oil and 

 an extract are official in Britain. 



Medical Properties and Uses. — Chamomile 

 is a mild stimulant and tonic, and one par- 

 ticularly suited to debility of the digestive 

 organs. The warm infusion is frequently 

 used as a diaphoretic, and, in large doses, 

 as an emetic. Fomentations of chamomile 

 are employed as a soothing application in 

 sprains, bruises, colic, abscesses, and local 

 pains generally. 



ACHILLEA.— Yarrow. 

 M 5 ! I ef o Hum Linne 



Yar 



Achillea 

 row, Milfoil. 



Description. — Heads many-flowered, ra- 

 diate ; the rays 4 or 5, fertile, white, rarely 

 rose-colored. Involucre oblong, the scales 

 imbricated. Receptacle chaffy, flatfish. 

 Achenia oblong, flattened, margined. Pap- 

 pus none. 



A perennial herb, 1 to 3 feet high. 

 Leaves oblong or linear in outline, bipin- 

 nately parted, the ultimate divisions 3- to 5-cleft, crowded. Heads in 

 compound, flat-topped corymb, appearing throughout the summer. 



Habitat. — Fields and waste places ; everywhere common. 



Part Used. — The herb — not official. 



Fig. 135.— Achillea Millefolium. 



