Sweet Pellitory. Tanacetum umbelliferum.

Botanical name: 

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.