Singhji, Beautiful flower. Regards,
Mani. On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:27 PM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. 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