50 ) ORD. Il. Composite. — ANTHEMIS NOBILIS. 
T.eése flowers have been found useful in hysterical affections, 
flatulent and spasmodic colics, and dysentery, but from their lax- 
ative quality, Dr. Cullen tells us, they proved hurtful in diarrhceas. 
A simple watery infusion of them is frequently taken, in a tepid 
state, for the purpose of exciting vomiting or for promoting the 
operation of emetics. Externally the flowers are used in the 
decoctum pro fomento, and they are an ingredient in the decoctum 
pro enemate. en 
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ANTHEMIS PYRETHRUM. SPANISH CAMOMILE, 
Or, PELLITORY of SPAIN. 
SYNONYMA. Pyrethrum. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Pyrethrum 
flore bellidis. Bauh. Pin, p. 148. Pyrethrum officinarum. Zob. 
AAT. Gerard. Emac. p.758. Park. Theat. p. 858. Raii Hist. 
p. 353. Chamemelum specioso flore, radice longa fervida. 
Shaw, Afr. p. 138. Anthemis caulibus simplicibus unifloris 
decumbentibus. Mill. Fig. t. 38. M"ze3e" Dioscorid. Lib. 3. c. 85.* 
Class Syngenesia. Ord. Polygamia Superflua, Lin. Gen. Plant. 970. 
Ess.Gen. Ch. Recept. paleaceum. Pappus nullus. Cal. hemispheri- 
cus, subzqualis Flosculi radii plures quam 5. | 
Sp. Ch. A. caulibus simplicibus unifloris decumbentibus, foliis 
pinnato-multifidis. 
THE root is perennial, tapering, long, externally whitish, and 
sends off several small fibres: the stems are usually simple, round, 
trailing, bearing one flower, and scarcely a foot in height; but the 
specimen here figured was extremely luxuriant, and has in some 
— departed from its more common and simple appearance: 
* Ab igne nomen habet, ob redicls ejus fervorem igneum. V. Bauh. l. c, 
