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grown in our gardens. It was formerly valued as a tonic, and given for agues and 
low fevers; hence its common name, which is a corruption of "febrifuge." Among 
the recommendations in Gerarde'a Herbal, we find the Feverfew extolled when dried 
and made into powder ; and " two drams of it taken with honey or sweet wine, it 
puroeth by siege melancholy and flegme ; wherefore it is very good for them that are 
giddie in the head, or which have the turning called Vertigo, that is, a swimming and 
turning in the head. Also it is good for such as be melancholike, sad, pensive, and 
without speech." 
SPECIES IV.— CHRYSANTHEMUM TANACETUM. 
Plate DCCXVI. 
Reich. Ic. PL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXCVL 
Billot, FL (Jail, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1897. 
Tanacetum vulgare, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1229. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 180. 
Hook. & Am. Brit. PL ed. viii. p. 244. Benth. Handbook Brit. PL p. 299. D. G. 
Prod. Vol. VI. p. 128. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 407. Fries, 
Sum. Veg. Scaud. p. 2. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 137. C. U. Schultz, 
1. c, p. 52. 
Leaves pinnate, with very numerous pairs of pinnaa ; leaflets 
oblong-strapshaped, deeply pinnatifid ; lobes serrate or entire ; 
lower leaves shortly stalked, the upper semi - amplcxicaul, sub- 
glabrous. Anthodes corymbose, discoid. Pericline hemispherical, 
with the exterior phyllaries lanceolate, bluntly keeled on the back; 
inner ones oblong, obtuse at the apex, with scarious pale fawn- 
coloured margins. Marginal florets female, not longer than the 
tubular perfect ones of the disk, obliquely truncate at the apex, tho 
ligule scarcely apparent, 3-toothed, yellow. Achenes cylindrical- 
prismatic, enlarged upwards, equally 5-ribbed. 
In hedge-banks, roadsides, borders of fields, and dry pastures. 
Rather sparingly but generally distributed, though probably not 
native in many of its localities, especially those in the Korth of 
Scotland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 
llootstock creeping, stolonifcrous. Stem erect, tough, 1 to 3 feet 
high, generally dull-purple, simple below, corymbosely branched at 
the apex in large examples, and terminated by a compact nearly 
simple corymb of numerous anthodes. Leaves with the lobes of the 
pinnatifid Leaflets acute, serrate on the outside, with dots containing 
essential oil. Peduncles slender, naked, slightly thickened below 
the heads. Anthodes : j : to -| inch across, bright -yellow. Clinanth 
hemispherical. Female florets sometimes absent. Achenes greenish- 
white, glabrous, frequently sprinkled with resinous dots, crowned 
by a short membranous uneven border. Plant dark-green, nearly 
