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ANTHEMIS NOBILIS. COMMON CAMOMILE. 
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SYNONYMA. Chamemelum. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Gerard 
Emac. p.755. Park. Parad. p. 289. Chamemelum nobile seu 
Leucanthemum odoratius. Bauh. Pin. p. 135. Chamemelum 
odoratissimum repens, flore simplici. J. Bauh. Hist. v. iii. p.118. 
Raii Hist. p. 353. Synop. p. 185. Chamzmelum foliis subhirsutis, 
nervo duro, pinnis pinnatis, pinnulis lanceolatis incisis. Hal. Stirp. 
Helv. n. 102. Anthemis nobilis. Hudson, Flor. Ang. With. Bot. 
Arr. Smith Flor, Lond. 904. 
Class Syngenesia. Ord. Polygamia Superflua. Lin. Gen. Plant. 970, 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Recept. paleaceum. Pappus nullus. Cal. hemis- 
phericus, subaqualis. Flosculi radii plures quam 5. 
Sp. Ch. A. foliis pinnato-compositis linearibus acutis subvillosis. 
THE roots are perennial, fibrous, spreading : the stems are slender, 
round, trailing, hairy, branched, of a pale green colour, and about 
a foot in length: the leaves are doubly pinnated; the pinnz are 
linear, pointed, a little hairy, and divided into th terminal seg- 
ments: the flowers are compound, radiated, white, at the centre 
yellow, and stand singly: the calyx is common to all the florets, of 
an hemispherical form, and composed of several small imbricated 
scales: the flowers of the radius are female, and usually about 
eighteen, narrow, white, and terminated with three small teeth: the 
tubular part of the floret encloses the whole of the style, but does 
not conceal the bifid reflexed stigma: the flowers of the disc are 
numerous, hermaphrodite, tubular, and cut at the brim into five 
segments: the filaments are five, very short, and have their anther 
united, forming a hollow cylinder: the germen is oblong: the style. 
is short, _ Sones and furnished with a bifid reflexed stigma: the 
