164 |  Anthemis Cotula. 
- Qual, Feetida, amara. Jnusitata, eximia. 
Vis: Anodyna, pellens, repellens, 
Usus : Hysteria! Epilepsia, Hydrops, - eens Asthma. Infus, ‘Bitaseationil, contusi- 
ones. cvtiy t Side. . Sheepf, Mat. Med. 
DESCRIPTIO UBERIOR. . 
pete 
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Boag 
‘Planta annua. Radix tortuosa. Caulis ramosissimus, erectus, foliosus, multiflorus, | gisitr.. Folia bipin- 
natifida, plana, i incisa, ‘Jete viridia, vix pilosa. ‘Calix pilosus, minus scariosus. Discus aureus, 
convexus, Flosculi radii albi, tridentati, ‘patentes, noctu- ‘déflexi. Semina obovata, sulcata, 
ommino mutica, interdum tuberculato-scabra, “Receptaculum cylindraceo-conicum ; palex om- 
nino setacez, flosculis breviores; florens Julio et Augusto. ‘Sm. FL Brit. ~ 
Herba, et precipue flores, ingrati odoris. Variat flore pleno. Dill. 
Tire generic name Anthemis, is supposed to be derived from 
Aveo, flored, having an abundance of flowers. It designates a 
family of plants of the Chamomile kind, all the species of which are 
strikingly alike in habit. The species now under consideration is 
a common weed found every where in the neighbourhood of habi- 
tations, and -rather repulsive from_ its = and disagreeable 
smell. 
The whole plant is slightly ‘covered with adpressed woolly 
hairs or down, perceptible to the naked eye, but very conspicuous 
under a lens. The root is annual, simple, or sometime con- 
torted, fibrous. Stalk from one to two feet high, irregulai 
gular, finely furrowed, or sometimes. only. triate erect, and very | 
