NAT. ORDER. 



Composite. 



ANT HEMIS NOBILIS. COMMON CPIAMOMILE. 



Class XIX. Syngenesia. Order 11. Polygamia Slpekflua. 



Gen. Char. Receptacle, chaffy. Seed-down, none, or a membra- 

 nous margin. Calyx, hemispherical, nearly equal. Florets of 

 the ray more than five. - ,- 1 



Spe. Char, ieaucs, bipinnate, linear, acute, subvillous. ■.. 



The roots are perennial, fibrous and spreading ; the stems are 

 slender, round, trailing, hairy, branched, of a pale green color, and 

 about a foot in length ; the leaves are doubly pinnated, linear, point- 

 ed, a little hairy and divided into three terminal segments; the^o- 

 wers are compound, radiated, white, at the centre yellow, and stand 

 singly ; the calyx is common to all the florets, of a hemispherical 

 form, and composed of several small imbricated scales; \heJloicers 

 of the radius are female, usually about eighteen in number, narrow, 

 white, and terminated with three small teeth ; the tubular part of 

 the Jloret encloses the whole of the style, but does not conceal the 

 bifid reflexed stigma ; the Jloivers of the disk are numerous, herma- 

 phrodite, tubular, and cut at the brim into five segments ; the_^/a- 

 ments are five, very short, and have their anthers so united as to form 

 a hollow cylinder; the germen is oblong; the style is short, slender, 

 and furnished with a bifid reflexed stigma; the seeds are small, and 

 of an irregular shape, It flowers in July and August. 



The common Camomile is a native of Europe, where it is 

 found growing wild, in all the temperate parts of that continent. 

 Though not a native of this country, it may be found growing wild 



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