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 ANTHEMIS apiifolia. 



Parsley -leaved Chinese Chamomile 



SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLU.L 



Nat. ord. Composite. Adans&nfam, 2. 103. 



CORYMBIFERJE. Jussieu gen, 177, Dip- V, Receptaculum 



paleaceum. Semen nudum seu non pi^>posum. Hores 



pleruroc|ue radiati^ rar6 flosculosi* 



Anthemide^g. Cassini mioum. de pkys, 88 (an 1819). 



ANTHEMIS* Flares radiati, ligulis lanceoiatis numerosis. Calyx 



imbricatua subaequalis hemisphaericus. Folia sceph muliifida; Jloret scepi in 



ramuli$ termvudes; lignlm albat atU lutem^ rard nuUm* A Matricaria 

 discrepat receptacuh paleaceo, Cahfx A. arabicx quasi bracteis obvaUatvi. 

 Jus9. 1. c. 185. 



IHv. Radio discotore $. atbo. 

 A. apiifolia, foliis glaberrimis pinnatifidis : lobis cuneatis trifidis incisisve, 



flonbus solitariis, involucri foliolis linearibus apice scariosis. Brown MSS. 

 Pyrethrum chrysanthemifolium. Jh kortis. 



Involucrum (calyx) kemisphcerieumyfolioUM sulxBqualilmSf appreuis^ linea- 

 ribm, apice hrevi scarioso vix dilatato, Fkppus : margo membranaceM bretisH- 

 mu8 itulivisus. R«ceptacaluni convexiusculum, paleaeeum patei$ Knearibus 

 acutis. Brown MSS. 





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With our present imperfect knowledge of this plant, it 

 is perhaps necessary to refer it to Anthemis, though in 

 real affinity it will probably be found to approach more 

 nearly to Chrysanthemum indicuniy of which the supposed 

 " double-flowered varieties are in like manner generally 

 *' furnished with palece. As that plant, however, in its 

 *^ single state has always a naked receptacle, and some of its 

 double-flowered varieties are constantly, while others are 

 occasionally without paleae, in the 2d edition of the Hor- 

 ^' tus Kewensis it was continued in Chrysanthemum ; an 

 arrangement which it would not perhaps be necessary to 

 alter, were it even proved that two species have been 

 confounded under the name of Chrysanthemum indicum, 

 both of them belonging decidedly to the same natural 

 genus ; and to this genus I am inclined to think Anthemis 

 apHfolia^ when completely known, may also be referred. 



" As to the narrow margo crowning the seed, on ac- 

 count of which our plant has been considered a Pyre* 





