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These flowers are also frequently used externally in discutient and antiseptic fomentations, and in emollient glysters. The double-flowered variety is usually cultivated for medicine, but the wild kind with single flowers is preferable. Similar Plants. Anthemis arvensis; A. Cotula; Pyrethrum maritimum. ANTHEMIS Pyrethrum. PELLITORY OF SPAIN. The Root.
This plant, which abounds in wet meadows, is said to produce a lousy disease in cows if they eat of it. MAYWEED. Anthemis cotula. This is altogether of such an acrid nature, that the hands of persons employed in weeding crops and reaping, are often so blistered and corroded as to prevent their working. It also has been known to blister the mouths and nostrils of cattle when feeding where it grows.
Yes, indeed, he had learned a great deal at school. "Here you see an Artemis cotula," he said. Miss Torsen, who had also imbibed much learning, recognized the name and said: "Yes, take plenty of it with you." "What for?" "It's insect powder." Schoolmaster Staur knew nothing of that, and there was a good deal of discussion in which Associate Master Hoey had to take a hand.
Well, she does not leave; she stays here to complete the picture of the woman Torsen, child of the middle class who has read schoolbooks all through her formative years, who has learned all about Artemis cotula, but undernourished her soul. That is what she is doing here.
The plant that is cut down one year, yet grows again the next did this miracle make him religious and silent? The stones, and the heather, and the branches of trees, and the grass, and the woods, and the wind, and the great heaven of all the universe were these his friends? Artemis cotula.... When I get tired of Associate Master Hoey and the ladies.... Sometimes I think of Mrs. Molie.
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