N. ORD.-COMPOSIT As. 
Tribe.—SENECIONIDEA. = 
GENUS.—ANTHEMIS,* LINN. 
SEX. SYST.—SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
ANTHEMIS NOBILIS. 
ROMAN CHAMOMILE. 
SYN.—ANTHEMIS NOBILIS, LINN.; A, AURHA, D. C.; 
oe © » D.C.; CHAMOMIL - 
pee GODR.; CHAMASMELUM NOBILE, ALL.; ORMENIS ROS 
COM. NAMES._TRUE CHAMOMILE, GARDEN CHAMOMI 
[OMILE,} CORN FEVER- 
FEW t; (FR.) CHAMOMILE ROMAINE; (GER.) ROMISCHE KAMILLEN. 
A TINCTURE OF THE WHOLE PLANT ANTHEMIS NOBILIS, LINN. 
Description —This low, aromatic perennial, seldom rises to any great height 
above the ground. Stems smooth or slightly pubescent, the sterile creeping, the 
fertile somewhat ascending; draxches numerous, hairy. Leaves alternate, sessile, 
pinnately bi- or tri-ternately compound, and dissected into filiform segments. //eads 
heterogamous, many-flowered, and rather large, terminal and solitary upon the 
branches ; peduncles long, pubescent ; zzvolucre hemispherical, consisting of 2 or. 
3 rows of comparatively small, imbricated bracts, the outer successively shorter ; 
receptacle oblong, with blunt, chaffy bracts subtending most of the florets. Dzsk- 
florets numerous, yellow, bi-sexual; corolla tubular, slightly gibbous below, enlarged 
above to bell-shaped, and having a few oil glands upon its surface; 4m 5-lobed; 
stamens 5; anthers tailless at the base; style slender, bifurcated. Ray-florets 15 
to 20, white, fertile; Zigules 3-toothed at the apex; style-dranches stigmatic at 
their truncate, penicillate extremities. Aéenes terete, glabrous, marked by 3 
indistinct ridges upon their inner faces, the truncate summit naked ; pappus none, 
the persistent base of the corolla, however, appearing like a coronal body of that 
nature. 
History and Habitat.— This European immigrant has, as yet, spread but 
little in this country, it being only occasionally found spontaneous near gardens, 
where it blossoms in July and August. 
On account of many species being nearly related to this one, and the ancient 
descriptions of so meagre a type, the history of this plant, which has, without 
doubt, been used as long as any other, is not traceable with any chance of correct- 
ness. In later times, however, it has been regarded important, by both physicians 
and the laity, and judged more active t 
** AvOsuls, anthemis, a Greek name for some allied plant. 
+ Our Chamomilla is Matricaria Chamomiilla, Linn. 
t Garden Feverfew is Matricaria Parthenium. 
