Anthemis. 1001 
578. (38.) Anthemis Linn, 
Capitula heterogamous radiate, ray-flowers 1-seriate, ligulate, 
conspicuous, white or yellow, female or neuter. Involucre hemi- 
spherical; bracts pluriseriate closely imbricate with scarious margins, 
outer successively shorter. Receptacle paleaceous convex or conical. 
Anther-base entire. Style-branches truncate, penicillate. Achenes 
oblong, apex obtuse; pappus 0 or coroniform or unilateral. — 
Herbs with alternate toothed or pinnatisect leaves often with narrow 
segments and terminal pedunculate often rather large capitula. 
A considerable genus, chiefly Huropean and Mediterranean. 
A. Corolla-tube not winged at the base, 
I. Corolla-tube glabrous. 
a) Achenes rounded at the tip .... . 1. A. microsperma. 
b) Achenes truncate, bald or surmounted by 
a low crown. 
1. Greenish, more or less pubescent. . 2 A. indurata. 
2. Greyish-tomentose or lanuginose . . 38. A. deserti. 
c) Achenes with an auricle at their inner 
ane as long or half as long as they. 
eeouneles SROTb Ss. <4. « « «> ss) .4y Ay, moelam podime: 
2. Peduncles long... . & AS yh Oe Gin: 
II. Corolla-tube hairy at the eae 
To Ray-flowerssterile ss se ns ss 6s AG Cotla, 
Il. Ray-flowers female. 
a) Peduncles not thickened ..... 7. A. retusa. 
b) Peduneles thickened. 
1. Leaves ovate-oblong. .... . 8. A. pseudocotula, 
2. Leaves narrow-oblong ..... 9. A. rotata. 
B. Corolla-tube winged at the base ..... - 10. A. mixta. 
1381. (1.) Anthemis microsperma Boiss. and Kotschy Diagnos. 
Plant. Or., ser. II fase. 5 (1856), p. 108. — Flor. Or. III, p. 298. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @Eg., p. 90 no. 559. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg.. p. 247. — An annual plant, 20—30 cm high, 
or sometimes somewhat more, sparingly hirsute; stems procumbent, 
very slender, branching. Leaves 1 cm long, 1 mm broad, linear, 
with few lobes. Peduncles rather long, slender; heads small; scales 
of the involucre oblong-linear, chaff oblong-lanceolate, keeled, abruptly 
tapering; rays as long as the disk; achenes 1 mm long, black, 7—8- 
ribbed. — Flow. March to April. 
M. p. Qatiya. — D.1. Pyramids of Giza. — O. Siwa. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea and Palestine. 
