166 Anthemis Cotula. 
seems to delight, shooting up among the stones. It srows plen- 
tifully in the streets, along the gutters, and on the vacant lots of the 
suburbs of Philadelphia and Baltimore ; and every where through 
the streets of Germantown, Frankfort, Lancaster, and York, and I 
presume in other places in the United States. It ranges 
_ extensively over our states, and is universally known by the name 
of wild chamomile. It flowers from midsummer till late in the au- 
tumn; and I have often seen it luxuriantly blooming in Novesber 
and December, in the navy yard of this city. 
This plant is very active, and is said by Curtis* to blister the 
skin of reapers and children in England, who gather it. It is there 
so common in corn-fields, as to diminish the crops occasionally. It 
is also said to be fond of soil well. manured. This circumstance, 
together with the fact of its vesicating property, which our plant 
does not, I think, possess ; and also some discrepancies i in the habit 
and structure of the plant, induced me to entertain doubts whether 
the Anthemis Cotula of Europe, mae —_ designated by that 
name in this country, were identi al, Not being however so fully 
satisfied as to make up my mind on the subject, T leave it for the fu- 
ture investigation ‘and scrutiny of botanists to determine. Dille- 
nius describes a double-flowered variety, which Withering, Smith, 
and others inform us is to be found i in different — of east 4 
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