NOTHING LIKE THAT ONLY WAS TRYING TO PROVIDE TANAY On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> > > > 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) >> >> >> > > > -- 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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