1010 Compositae. 
B. Achenes compressed. 
J. Achenes conspicuously 3-ribbed . .... . 3. M. auriculata. 
HT. (Achenesribless) gic cra” ./ eds (ee deere oe 4. M. tridentata. 
1397. (1.) Matricaria Chamomilla L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), 
p. 1256. — Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 323. — Ic. Schkuhr, tab. 253 b. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @’Eg., p. 90 no. 569. — Chamomilla 
officinalis C. Koch in Linnaea XVII, p. 45. — Matricaria suoveolens 
L. Flor. suec., p. 138. — Griseb. Spec. Flor. Rum. I, p. 200. — DC. 
Prodrom. VI, p. 51. — Resembles so closely the Anthemis Cotula 
that it can scarcely be distinguished but by the odour and the 
absence of the scales between the flowers. It is, like that plant, an 
erect, branching annual; the leaves twice or thrice pinnate, with 
short, but very narrow linear segments, and the flower-heads rather _ 
large, on terminal peduncles. Involucral bracts all nearly of the 
same length, with scarious edges. Ray-flowers white. Receptacle 
much elongated: as the flowering advances and hollow. Achenes 
without any border at the top. — Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Mariut; Montaza; Alexandria-West and East; Mandara; 
Abukir. — M. p. Rosetta; Damietta. — N.d. N.f. N. v. Often on 
way-sides and on waste places. 
Local name: babtinngi; babinnguy; ’ain-el-qutt (Ascherson). 
Of Mediterranean origin, now also common in whole Europe, except 
the extreme north. 
1398. (2.) Matricaria aurea (L.) Boiss. Flor. Or. III (1875), 
p. 324. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 90 no. 570. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p. 762. — Sickenberg. 
Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 247. — Ascherson-Schweinf. Primit. Flor. 
Marmaric., p. 654 no. 171. — Cotula aurea L. Spec. Plant. I, p. 1257. 
— Anacyclus aureus Lam. Illustr., tab. 700 fig. 2. — Perideraea 
aurea Willk. and Lange Prodrom. Flor. Hisp. 0, p. 90. — Chamomilla 
aurea I. Gay in Bourg. and Bel. exsice. — An annual plant, 10 to 
25 em high, or sometimes somewhat more, branching from the neck; 
stems slender, ascending. Leaves pinnatipartite into setaceous, entire 
or 3-fid lobules. Heads 5 mm broad; receptacle ovate, achenes 
minute, bald, or with an oblique ear-like crown. — Flow. March 
to April. 
M. ma. M. p. N. d. N.f. N. v. Common throughout, even in 
deserts. A fragrant plant, the infusion of which is much used as a 
febrifuge and carminative. 
Local name: qumeydy (Ascherson); qamiila (G. Roth); gumeyla 
(Ascherson). 
Also known from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, Spain, Palestine, 
Syria, Mesopotamia and Persia. 
