Sweet Pellitory. Tanacetum umbelliferum.

Sweet Pellitory.—The root of Tanacetum umbelliferum Boiss. (Fam. Compositae), of India, according to David Hooper, contains pyrethrine in minute proportions with fat and wax, an organic acid which is a pigment, glucose, and inulin. (P. J., xxi, 1890.)

The Dispensatory of the United States of America, 1918, was edited by Joseph P. Remington, Horatio C. Wood and others.