Tanay Just go on...................................providing such information. What more does our group need from this brilliant chap (now don't say that you are not a brilliant chap).
-- 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 9:33 PM, mani nair <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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