434 Anthemideae 



Tribe 8. ANTHEMIDEAE. Mayweed Tribe. 



Strong-scented or aromatic herbs, with alternate, 

 mostly dissected, pinnately parted or pinnatifid leaves. 

 [nvolucral bracts imbricated, commonly dry and scari- 



ous or with scarious margins. Receptacle naked or with 

 chaff-like bracts. Rays present or none. Pappus none 

 or a slmrt scarious crown. 



Receptacle chaffy; rays present. 



Heads solitary: rays 14-20. 56. ANTBEMIS 



Heads in a terminal corymb: rays -1-5. 57. Achillea. 



Receptacle naked; rays none. 



Marginal flowers destitute of corollas. 59. COTULA. 



Marginal flowers not apetalous. 



Heads solitary, terminating leafy branches. 58. MATRICARIA 



Heads small, in panicled raoemes or spikes. 60. Artemisia. 



56. ANTHEMIS L. 



Annua] or perennial ill-scented branching herbs, with 



finely dissected alternate Leaves, and radiate heads soli- 

 tary on terminal peduncles. Involucre hemispheric, its 

 bracts imbricated in several series, scarious-margined, 

 ajipressed, the outer shorter. Receptacle convex or 

 conical, chaffy at least toward the summit : the chaff 

 subtending the disk-flowers. Ray-flowers pistillate, fer- 

 tile or neutral, white or yellow. Disk-flowers perfect, 

 yellow, the limb 5-cleft. Achenes oblong, ribbed or 

 striate. Pappus none. 



1. A. Cotula L. (Mayweed.) Annual, glabrous or some- 

 times pubescent above, glandular, much branched, 2-6 dm. high ; 

 leaves mostly Bessile, finely 1-3-pinnately dissected into narrow 

 acute lobes; heads about 2 cm. broad, including the rays; these 

 10-18, white, neutral, mostly 3-toothed ; receptacle conic, its 

 chaff bristly, subtending the central (lowers; achenee LO-ribbed, 

 rugose or glandular-tuberculate. 



Common In moist places in all our valleys. Native <t Europe. A.pril 

 June 



