The chemical composition of the commercial oil of tansy and of that obtained from a local tansy species s a s determined by means of gas-liquid chromatography. Both oils contained d-isothujone as the major component (68.57,,, 587"). The commercial oil contained fairly large alnounts of I-camphor (13.9%), whereas that froin local plants had only traces of camphor and 19.87" of I-thujone. The minor components isolated and identified in both oils were I-a-pinene, 1-camphene, d-sabinene, d-limonene, 1 : 8-cineole, yterpinene, P-cymene, d-terpinen-4-01, 1-carvotanacetone, and 1-borneol. Small amounts of a-thujene, p-pinene, a-terpinene, terpinolene, neoisothujyl and isothujyl alcohols, and dihydrocarvone were identified by retention characteristics only. Car-4-ene, isomeric alloocitnenes, and carvomenthone may also be present. An unknown, crystalline monoterpene alcohol with a terminal methylene group was isolated in sinall amounts. A sesquiterpene (3.'i7,,) was obtained from the oil of local plants.Prefractionation of these oils by fractional distillation resulted in extensive isomerization of isothujone to dl-carvotanacetone. Such a rearrangement was not encountered during prefractionation by preparative gas-liquid chromatography.