This is the best part of Sir Ji always pulling my leg .....I was missing this !! Now I think I am getting back my powers Tanay
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> > > 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. >>> >> >> > > > -- 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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