Great job Tanay You have already started building up eflora of India!! bravo!!!
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:19 PM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > *Anthemis cotula*. > > > <http://www.henriettesherbal.com/eclectic/rafinesque/pics/rafin-06-anthemis-cotula.html> > *English Name*—WILD CAMOMILE. > *French Name*—Camomile Puante. > *German Name*—Stinkende Kamille. > *Officinal Names*—Cotula, Camomila Spuria. > *Authorities*—Linnaeus, Wildenow, Pursh, Lamark, Schoepf, Dispensaries, > Bigelow Seq. W. Barton Mat. Med. fig. 14. > ------------------------------ > > Genus ANTHEMIS—Flowers compound radiate. Perianthe hemispherical imbricate. > Rays above five, female. Phoranthe conical, chaffy. Seeds naked. > Species A. COTULA—Annual puberulent, stem angular, furrowed, branched. > Leaves bipinnatifid, sessile, cari—nate, pinnules linear, acute. Peduncles > grooved, naked, thicker above; chaff bristly, seeds obovate, four sided, > furrowed. > > *Description*—Root annual, crooked, fibrous. Stem and leaves covered with > short, adpressed, wooly hairs. Stem from one to two feet high, erect and > very much branched, irregularly angular and striated; branches corymbose. > Leaves alternate sessile, flat, doubly pinnatifid, or almost pinnate, > cari—nate beneath in the middle; pinnules flat unequal, linear, acute, > entire or trifid. > > Flowers many, forming a terminal corymb; each on a naked peduncle, erect, > grooved and thicker upwards. Perianthe or common calyx, hemispherical, > imbricated hairy, rough; scales linear, pale green, nearly equal, scariose > on the margin and end. The central florets of the disk are numerous and > bright yellow; those of the rays are ligular, from seven to twelve, and > white. Phoranthe or common receptacle conical, covered with short bristly > chaff, or palea. > > Central florets tubular, glandular, five-toothed, with five stamina, > anthera united. Germ inferior obovate. Style filiform bifid. Stigmas two > filiform reflexed. > > Rays or ligular florets without stamina, oblong, two nerved, bidentate or > tridentate at the end. > > Seeds brown, obovate, four sided, grooved and tuberculated. > > *History*—The genus COTULA of Tournefort has been blended with ANTHEMIS by > Linnaeus, from which the naked seeds, without a membranaceous appendage, and > the conical instead of convex phoranthe, partly distinguish it, so as to > allow of a subgenus or section at least. > > There appears to be some differences between the *A. Cotula* of the north > and south of Europe and our American plant; but although the various > botanical descriptions offer several trifling diversities, they hardly > amount to specific distinctions. Our description applies to the American > plant. The European is smoother, more fetid, and sometimes described with > bipinnate leaves, and trifid folioles. I have seen both, and once had > distinguished this by the name of *A. Cotuloides*; but being unwilling to > innovate in this work, I have followed our Botanists in uniting the plants > of both continents, although I greatly doubt the botanical propriety of it. > > It blossoms from June to November, affording a profusion of flowers in > succession, of the size of Camomile, but never double. The whole plant has a > strong graveolent smell, disagreeable to some persons, but not fetid. It is > not eaten by cattle nor domestic animals. > > The name of *Anthemis* is Greek, and applies to the profusion of flowers. > *Cotula* is a diminutive of *Cota*, another plant of the same genus. > > *Anthemis* belongs to the natural tribe of RADIATES, section of * > Anthemides*. In the Linnean system it is placed in class SYNGENESIA. Order > *Polygamia Superflua*. > > Abundant as it is, the collection of it becomes easy; the whole plant may > be dried when in bloom, or the blossoms alone may be collected. > > *Locality*—Our plant is indigenous and not naturalized as mentioned by > some Botanists. It is spread all over the United States from Maine to > Louisiana; but confined almost every where to open fields. It is never found > in woods, but delights in the sun, road sides, stony places and old fields, > or near towns and villages. It is scarce in mountains, but prefers the > limestone soils and plains. It is extremely abundant on the Ohio and in the > Western States, covering neglected fields, and alternating in fallows with > the Ironweed or Vernonia. It is deemed a troublesome weed, although being > annual it is easily destroyed by early ploughings > > *Qualities*—Graveolent, bitter, and nauseous; the smell of the plant > resides in a Volatile Oil, possessed of a strong or graveolent aroma, and > diffused throughout the plant, although more concentrated in the flowers. It > is similar to the smell of Camomile, but more pungent, and less balsamic. > This oil is bitter and communicates a bitterish acrid taste to the whole > plant. > > *Properties*—The same as those of Camomile, but weaker and less pleasant > to the taste: it may be substituted thereto with safety. It is an active > tonic, sodorific, stimulant, anodyne, emetic, and repellent; extensively > used throughout the country for rheumatism, hysterics, epilepsy, dropsy, > asthma, scrofula, &c. both internally and externally. The external use in > warm baths or fomentations is proper in rheumatism, hysteric fits, > suffocations, hemorrhoidal swellings, pains and contusions. The decoction > and infusion are given for colds, fevers, rheumatism, asthma, &c. but a > single cupful, if too strong, may produce vomiting, and even a weak infusion > nauseates the stomach. It acts always as a sudorific, promoting copious > sweating, and is often beneficial as an auxiliary to an emetic. In large > doses it becomes emetic: in small ones it is a gentle tonic and diaphoretic, > useful whenever it is needful to promote perspiration in fevers. Its > advantages in epilepsy, dropsy and scrofula, are doubtful. The European > plant is said to blister the hands, which is not the case with ours. > > Reference: > http://www.henriettesherbal.com/eclectic/rafinesque/anthemis.html > > Tanay > > > On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Anthemis cotula from Kashmir. The weed was restricted to a small area near >> Tourist reception Centre, 35 years back but is at present the most dominant >> weed of the valley, extending from 1600 m to more than 3500m found almost >> everywhere, roadsides, wastelands, mountain slopes, pathways,etc. almost as >> widespread as Pathenium in warmer parts of India. >> >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Tanay Bose > +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) > 9830439691(Mobile) > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. 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