COMPOSITE II 



21. Carpesium, L. 



Flowers all tubular; leaves alternate. Not alpine. 



C. cernmtmy L. ; stem 4-12 in., leaves soft, pubescent, 

 lanceolate, sinuate - dentate, capitules nodding; damp 

 slopes; Rhone Valley, Geneva, Thun, Constance, Vier- 

 wald-statter See, Dauphiny. 



Tribe Anthemide^e. — Ray - flowers usually ligulate, 

 sometimes very slender and tubular, mostly white; anther- 

 cells not tailed; branches of style linear, with truncate 

 papillose or penicillate tips ; pappus o ; leaves alternate. 

 Genera 22-28. 



22. Anthemis, L. 



Capitule solitary ; ray-flowers ligulate, female or neuter, 

 usually white ; disk-flowers perfect, yellow, rarely white ; 

 branches of style short, with papillose tips; leaves bi- 

 pinnatifid; plant often strongly scented. 



A. arvensisy L., Corn -Chamomile; and Cotula, L., 

 foetid, are common weeds in cultivated land; also A. 

 tinctoriay L. ; ray-flowers yellow ; waste places and road- 

 sides in the South. The following are alpine: — A. mon- 

 tanuy L. (styriaca. Vest.) ; capitule about if in., disk- 

 flowers yellow, involucral bracts broad, dark brown; 

 Pyrenees, Styria. A . Triumfettiy All. ; ray-flowers white, 

 linear-oblong, twice as long as involucre, leaf-segments 

 slightly toothed; rare; Ticino (Monte Generoso), Pyre- 

 nees. A, alptna, L. ; capitule about i in., ray- and disk- 

 flowers both white, involucral bracts narrow, brownish; 

 Tirol, Styria. 



