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No. 



ANTHEMIS COTULA. 



English Name— WILD CAMOMILE. 



French Name — Camomile Puante. 



German Name — Stinket^de Kamille. 



Officinal Names — Cotula, Camomila Spuria. 



Vttlgar Namer — May-Weed, Dog's Fennel, Dil* 

 ly, Dilweed, Field weed, &:c. 



Authorities — Linnaeus, Wildenow, Pursh, La- 

 mark, Schoepf, Dispensaries, Bigelow Seq. W. Bar- 

 ton Mat Med. fig. 14. 



Genus Anthemis — Flowers compound radiate 



Perianthe hemispherical imbricate. Rays above five, 

 female, Phoranthe conical, chafiy. Seeds naked. 



Species A- Cotula — Annual puberulent, stem 

 angular, furrowed, branched. Leaves bipinnatifid, 

 ^sessile, carinate, pinnules linear, acute. Peduncles 

 grooved, naked, thicker above j chaflf bristly, seeds 

 abovate, four sided, furrowed. 



DESCRIPTION— Root annual, crooked, fibrous. 

 Stem and leaves ^jovered witl^ short, adprcssed, wooly 

 Ivairs. Stem from one to two feet high, erect and 

 very much branched, irregularly angular and striated ; 

 branches corymbose. l-*eavcs alternate sessile, flat, 

 doubly pinnatifid, or afmost pinnate, carinate beneath 

 in the middle j pinnules flat unequal, linear, acute, 

 entife or trifid. 



