SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. Artemisia. 92 1 
(Flowers golden yellow, numerous, forming a dense corymb: jlorets of 
the circumference rarely apparent. E.) Stem frequently reddish, (up¬ 
right, two feet high, scored, scarcely hairy. Leaves alternate, am- 
plexicaul. Leqfits of the calyx blunt, membranous at the edge. Imparts 
an agreeable aromatic odour. E.) 
Common Tansy. (Irish: Luss na Frank. Welsh: Gystlys cyjfredin. E.) 
Mountainous meadows and pastures. Banks of rivers and swampy 
places : (also on dry banks. E.) Banks of the Irwell and other places 
about Manchester. Mr. Caley. Banks of the Dove. Mr. Pitt. Between 
Piper's Hill and Bridgewater; and in Devonshire, (as about Teign- 
mouth, Torquay, &c. frequent. (It abounds at Wark, and Ford-castle, 
near Kelso: also on the side of Gare-loch, on the borders of Scotland. 
Encyc. Brit. Opposite Alcester mill, on the side of the turnpike road. 
Purton. Plentiful on Newmarket Heath, Cambridgeshire. By the side 
of a rill between Penmon church and the sea, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. 
Among the cliffs at Cheddar, Somersetshire. E.) P. June—(Aug. E.)* 
Var. 2. Leaves curled. 
Ger. 525.2-—Bod. 36. 2—Lob. Ohs. 432. 3, and Ic. i. 749. 2—Ger. Em. 650. 
2— Park. 81. a — J. B. iii. 132. 
Ray informs us that this variety was first observed in England. It grows 
by the Tees near Connis Cliffe, Durham. Mr. Robson. (Lane near Wol- 
sington, Northumberland. Mr. Winch. E.) 
ARTEMIS'IA.f Recept. slightly hairy or naked: Down none : 
Calyx tiled: scales converging: Florets radiate, none. 
(1) Stems trailing before flowering. 
A. campes'tris. Leaves many-cleft, strap-shaped: stems wand-like. 
( E.Bot. 338— FI. Ban. 1175. E.)— Ger. 948. 5, Abrot. camp. — J. B. iii. a. 
194. 2— Pet. 20. 4— Bod. 33. 2— Lob. Obs. 442. 3, andlc. i. 767. 2 — Ger. 
1106. 5— Park. 94. 7 '— Matth. 852— Lonic. ii. 23. 2 
Stems numerous, (often reddish, about two feet high, E.) angular, declin¬ 
ing, much branched. Leaves , the upper frequently simple, very narrow. 
Heads very small, scarcely more than a line broad, numerous, single. 
* Tansy is a warm and deobstruent bitter, and its flavour not ungrateful. (It is 
frequently admitted into gardens for culinary purposes. E.) The tender leaves and juice 
are sometimes used to give a colour and flavour to puddings. If a dead animal substance 
be rubbed with this plant, the flesh fly will not attack it. The Finlanders obtain a green 
dye from it. Cows and sheep eat it. Horses, goats, and swine refuse it. It affords 
nourishment to Aphis Tanaceti , and Chrysomela Tanaceti. Linn, (also to Andrena 
albicans and tibialis. The seeds are an excellent vermifuge. (This herb flourishes 
luxuriantly on the banks on the Avon, near Hanham and Keynsham, where Mr. Frederick 
Russell observed boys gathering a boat-load of it to convey to Bristol for the purpose of 
making wine. Dr. Threlkeld relates the case of a soldier at Montpellier who was cured of 
an obstinate dropsy by the decoction of Tansy alone. Of the juice of the tender leaves, with 
eggs, are composed Tansy cakes, used at the Paschal season by Papists, to dissipate the 
flatulencies occasioned by what the above authority terms, “the idle conceit of eating fish 
and pulse for forty days in Lent; but,” the Doctor adds, “ I have seen several victims (to 
superstition, who have broken an hale constitution by that presumptuous fasting, so that 
neither Tansy nor steel could repair it.” E.) 
t (From 'Aprep-tg, a name of Diana, who presided over women in child-bed; the plant 
originally so called being of wore decided efficacy in promoting parturition* E.jt 
