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ANTHEMIS NOBILIS. ' COMMON CAMOMILE 



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:STNONTMJ^ Chamasmeliim. Pbann. Lond. Iff Edinh, Gerard 

 Emac. p. JSS' ^^i^^* Parad. p. 289. Chamsmelum nobile feu 



themum odoratius. Bauh. Pin. p.. i ic 



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odoratlffimum repeiiSj flore fimplici. j. Bauh, H'tjl. v. iii.p, 118 



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RaiiHiJi. p. ^^^* Synop. p. i8c. Cliamaemelum foliis fubhirfut 



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-nervo duro, pinnis pinnatis, pmnulis lanceolatis mcifis. Hal. Stirp 



Helv.Jt. 102, Antliemis nob ills. Hudfon^Flor,An^, Vfith.Bot.Arr 



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CUfs Syngenefia. Ord. Polygamia Superflua. Lin, Gen. Plant, 970, 



£^ Gen, Ch, Recept. paleaceum. Pappus nullus, CaL hemifphsericus, 



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fuba^ quails. • FlofcuU radii plures quam 5. 



Sp\ Ch, A. foliis pinnato-compofitis linearibus acutis fubvlllofis. 



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THE roots are perennial, fibrous, fpreadlng: the ftems are flender, 

 round, trailing, hairy, branched, of a pale green colour, and about a 

 foot ^n length : the leaves are doubly pinnated ; the pinns are linear, 

 pointed, a little hairy, and divided into three terminal fegments : the 

 flowers are compound, radiated, w^hite, at the centre yellow, and Hand 

 fingly: the calyx is common to all the florets, of an hemifphericaL 

 form, and compofed of feveral fmall imbricated fcaies : the flowers 

 of the radius are female, and ufually about eighteen, narrow, white, 

 and terminated with three fmall teeth : the tubular part of the floret 

 enclofes the whole of the ftyle, but does not conceal the bifid reflexed 

 itigma: the flowers of the dtfc are numerous, hermaphrodite, tubu- 

 lar,^ and cut at the brim into five fegments : the filaments are five, 

 ^'ery fhort, and have their antherse united, forming a hollow cylinder : 

 "^egermen is oblong: the ftyle is fhort, flender, and furnilhed with 

 a bihd reflexed ftigma : the feeds are fmall, and of an irregular fhape: 

 the receptacle is fupplied with rigid briftle-like palese. It grovv^s in 

 nioft paftures, and flowers in July .and Auguft. 



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