ANTHEMIS PYRETHRUM. PELLITORY OF ~ 
SPAIN, os 
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Clafs and Order. cca ya ; 5 
ESIA Poiye AMIA SureReiua, 
“Cinge Charaéler. i 
 Recept. paleaceum. Pappus nullus. Cal. hemipharicus, ee 
zqualis. Flo/culs radil plurés quam 65. 
Specific Charaéter and Synonymsy a : 
ANTHEMIS Pyrethrum caulibus fi mnplicibus nifloris de- | 
Sy. Veget. ed. 14. Murr, 
Medical Botany, p. 286. 
ge = AT. 1982 
PY RETHRUM flare bellidis. Banh. Pin, 148, 
“The Pellitory of Soaia is pores tolebeaiel os a an ulefu. 
an ornamental plant, the root which is of a very h 
biting nature being a common application for the cure o ‘the é 
tooth-ach; but, divefted of its utility as a medicinal plant, gee 
it merits a place in colleétions on account of the gn G é 
both of its foliage and flowers, the latter are more hand- — 
fide of the florets being of a fine purple colour, the upper — 
as 1570: ParKINson evidently grew it, as he obferves that 
endure our winters: to the latter caufe, as well as to the 
‘difficulty of propagating it, for it does not ripen its feeds in 
Mitcer raifed this plant in 1732, in a very curious way, 
from feeds is picked out fie. Behe. ecg | 
cumbentibus foliis pinnato multifidis. Linn. ie z: 
ede 776. Woodville's ah ers 
CH AMAMELUM —— flore, race longa fervida, op ad ay z Z : 
fome when in bud than ‘when fully expanded, the under- abe ae 
pure white; it is moreover a very rare plant in this 
country, notwithftanding it was cultivated here fo long fince 
the roots of the cultivated plant, were much larger than thofe __ 
of the wild one ; he tells us alfo, that it was too tenderto 
this country, we may. attribute its prefent fearcity: Mr, 
