60 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
On heaths, meadows, and in bushy places, and by the sides of 
roads and ditches. Bather 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 branched. 
Leaves variable in breadth, sometimes very narrow, rather rigid, 
the serratures with a more or less evident usually denticulate car- 
tilaginous margin. Anthodes J inch across, rather few, in a some- 
what lax flat-topped corymb. Outer phyllaries lanceolate, inner 
ones strapsh aped 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, Achillee Boulon d 'Argent. German, Bertram Garbe. 
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 cureof headache ; and a pleasant 
writer on wild flowers, who floes not give us her name, says that she knows some old 
folks, wlio in their childhood drank no other tea, before the use of Chinese tea became 
so 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.— ARTEMISIEiE. 
Leaves alternate. Anthodes discoid, homogamous or hetero- 
gamous. Plorets all tubular, those of the centre perfect or male, 
1hose of the circumference female or all perfect; female florets 
with the limb 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. Achenes 
fusiform, sub-cylindrical or compressed, without ribs. Pappus 
none. Inflorescence paniculate, racemose or spicate. 
GENUS JlIIL— ARTEMISIA. L 
Din. 
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. 
