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_ MATRICARIA PARTHENIUM. COMMON FEVERFEW. 
SYNONYMA. Matricaria. Pharm. Geoff. iit. 825. Dale. 97. 
Aifton. ti. 175. Lewis. 414. Ed. New. Difpenf. 227. Murray. 
4.148. Bergius. 687. Cullen. it. 362. Matricaria vulgaris five 
fativa. Baub. Pin. 133. Gerard. Emac. 652. Park. Theat. 8 > 
Ray. Hift. 357:  Synop.. 187. Hall. Hi/t. Stirp. Helv. n. 100. 
M. Parthenium. Hudfon. Flor. Ang. 371. fh beoivt Bot. Arr. 
931. Ic. Flor. Dan. 192. | 
“ Syngenefia, Poiyeaita Superflua. ‘Lin. Gen. Plant. 967. 
Gen. Ch. Recept. nudum. “Pappus nile Cal. Pg gee od 
imbricatus: marginalibus folidis, acutiufculis. 
Sp. Ch. M. foliis compolitis plains folighs a ovatis inci pedun- 
 culis ramofis. 
ROOT perennial, compofed of numerous ae fibres: “Stalk etedt, 
firm, much branched, ftriated, round, {mooth, rifing above two feet 
in height. Leaves alternate, hairy, pinnated ; lobes irregular, 
toothed, blunt; terminal lobe bifid. Flowers large, compound, at 
the centre yellow, at the radius white, upon long peduncles, forming 
a kind of umbel. Calyx common to ail the florets, hemifpherical, 
and compofed of numerous ovate {quamz, which are membranous 
at the border. Florets at the radius, female, oblong, about two lines 
in breadth, terminated by three fmall teeth. Stigma bifid, turned in ~ 
oppofite direGtions. Florets of the difk numerous, tabular, hermaph- 
rodite, five-toothed. Filaments five, capillary, very fhort. Anthere 
forming a hollow cylinder. Seeds egg-fhaped, truncated at the bafe, 
furrowed, whitifh, without pappus. 
~ It is common about hedges, walls, and wafte ‘grounds, flowering 
in June and July. 
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