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NEUROLAENA LOBATA (L.) R. Br, Erb-a-picque. 
This plant was employed in the West Indies in conjunction with the 
bark of the mammee tree (Mammea americana ) to make a wash for animals 
infested with ticks •--Anonymous (24) • 
Extracts of the leaves find stems of this fish-poison plant from 
Antigua were slierhtly toxic to the bean aphid.—Tattersfield and Gimingham 
(391). 
PULICARIA DYSENTERICA (L.) Gaertn. Synonym: Inula dysent erica L. 
Fleawort. Fleabane. 
This plant was called an herb insecticide.— Lyons (248 , p. 384). 
The action of the flower heads against flies, fleas, and ants 
was uncertain.— Passerini (303 ). 
The flowers have long been supposed to be poisonous to insects; 
hence the name of "fleabane." Extracts of flowers collected in England 
were found to be inactive against larvae of the early thorn moth.— 
Tutin (403) . 
Extrpcts from the leaves, flowers, stems, and roots of this plant 
from England were nontoxic to the bean aphid.— Tattersfield and 
Gimingham (391 ). 
PULICARIA VULGARIS Gaertn. Synonym: Inula pulicaria L. 
The flowers were entirely nontoxic to flies. — Kalbrunner (224 ) • 
RUD^ECKIA HIRTA L. Black-eyed susan. 
Extracts from the entire plant were repellent to the Japanese 
beetle. — Metzger end Gr*nt (277). 
SANTOLINA CHAMASCYP4RISSUS L. Lavender cotton. 
This plant is listed as an insecticide.— Greshoff ( 171 , p. 158). 
This plant killed the dog flea, although very slowly, but had 
practically no effect on flies and ants.— Passerini ( 303 ) . 
SANTOLINA sp. 
Small quantities of these plants put in containers holding herbar- 
ium collections were reported to kill the insect pests.— Regel (316) . 
