SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Anthemis. 457 



ward. Staflbrdshire 3 Mr. Pitt. IVithering. On Blackheath, 

 and on Hounslow heath in abundance ; also near Lowestoft 

 Suffolk, and in several parts of Norfolk. 



Perennial. August, September, 



The roots are strong, with long fibres. Stems in a wild state pros- 

 trate, in gardens more upright, a span long, branched, leafy, 

 hollow, round, furrowed, downy. Leaves doubly pinnate, with 

 narrow linear segments, not truly thread-shaped or cylindrical, 

 but rather flat or channelled above, convex beneath ; all acute, 

 often bristle-pointed, a little hairy. Ft. terminal, solitary, ra- 

 ther larger than a Daisy, with a convex yellow disk, and nume- 

 rous, white, si)reading or reflexed, rays. The scales of the re- 

 ceptacle do not a))pear till the florets of the disk are turned to 

 one side, and the innermost are gradually narrowest ; all thin 

 and membranous, not sharp. Cat. with shining membranous- 

 bordered scales, rather downy. Becept. obtusely conical. Seeds 

 very obscurely bordered at the summit. 



Varieties witli {\o\\h\^Jiowers, whose yellow tubular florets are, en- 

 tirely or partially, transformed into white ligulate ones, are com- 

 mon in gardens 5 the discoid variety, destitute of rays, is more 

 rare. The latter perhaps ought to be preferred for medical usej 

 the double white flowers being now acknowledged to be weaker 

 than those in a natural state. Every part of the plant is in- 

 tensely bitter, and gratefully aromatic, especially the Jlowers^ 

 whose stomachic and tonic powers are justly celebrated. 



3. A. arvensis. Corn Chamomile. 



Receptacle conical ; scales lanceolate, acute, keeled, pro- 

 minent. Seeds crowned with a quadrangular border. 

 Leaves doubly pinnatifid, hairy ; seoinents parallel. 



A. arvensis, Linn. Sp. PI. 1 2G 1 . Willd. v. 3. 2 1 80. Fl. Br. 905. 

 Enirf. Bot. r. 0. t. 602. Mart. Bust. t. 73. Hook. Scot. 247. 



ChanitEmelum n. 103. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 44. 



Ch. inodorum. Dill, in Bad S/jn. KSa. Bauh. Pin. I3."» ? 



White Ox-eye. Pctiv. H. Brit. t. 1 [)./. S. 



In cultivated fields, as well as waste ground, chiefly on a gravelly 

 soil. 



About London, towards Peckham and Kltham. S/icrard. At Wal- 

 thamstow. Mr. Ji. M. Forstcr. In various parts of Norfolk oc- 

 casionally. Mr. Crowe. 



Annual, or liieiinial. Ju)ic, Jul//. 



Boot tapering, rather small. Stem erect, much branched, leafy, 

 hollow, many-flowered, hoary with fine .soft shaggy hairs, often 

 purplish, from 12 to IS inches high. Lfwrt'jf sessile, doubly and 

 regularly pinnatifid, hairy, of a greyish green ; their segments 

 uniform, ))aralKl aiul ecpiai, lanceolate rather than linear, acute, 

 each li|)ped witii a small bristle ; dotted at tin- bark ; when drv 



