48 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



without ribs ; epigynous disk oblique, sometimes with, sometimes 

 without, a membranous border, which is most conspicuous in the 

 achenes of the ray-florets. 



SPECIES YL— CHRYSANTHEMUM CHAMOMILLA. E. Mey. 



Plate DCCXIX. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Yol. XYI. Tab. CMXCYIL 



Billot, Fl. Gull, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1235. 



Leucanthemum Chamsemelum, Lam,. Fl. Fr. Yol. II. p. 139. 



Mati'icaria Charaomilla, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1232. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed, v. 



p. 179. Hooh. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 258. Benth. Handbook Brit. Fl. 



p. 296. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 416. Fries, Sum. Yeg. Scand. 



p. 1. Gr. k Godr. Fl. de Fr. Yol. II. p. 149. C. H. Schultz, uber die Tanacet. 



p. 24, Reich. 1. c, p. 47. 



Stem very copiously corymbosely branched. Leaves bipinnate, 

 the secondary leaflets cut into setaceous segments or entire ; 

 middle and upper leaves sessile ; all glabrous. Anthodes solitary 

 at the extremity of the stem and very numerous branches, 

 radiant or rarely discoid. Clinanth elongate - conical in fruit. 

 Pericline flattish, wdth the phyllaries flat, short, oblong-strap- 

 shaped, yellowish with scarious concolorous margins. Plorets of 

 the ray ligulate, much longer than the phyllaries, white, rarely 

 absent. Achenes flattish on the inner side with 5 ribs, curved 

 on the outer and without ribs or fovese. 



In cultivated and recentlv disturbed srround. Not uncommon 

 in England, especially in the neighbourhood of London. Rare in 

 Scotland, where I have never seen it, except on the ballast-hills 

 on the Fifeshire coast. 



England, [Scotland,] Ireland. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 



This plant bears a striking resemblance to slender forms of 

 C. inodorum, but it is of a yellower green, generally much more 

 branched, and with the branches and consequently the anthodes 

 more regularly corymbosely disposed ; the anthodes smaller, -f to } 

 inch across, with the ray shorter and reflexed immediately after 

 flowering, which does not occur in C. inodorum until a later period ; 

 the disk is much more prominent while in flower, and afterwards 

 becomes longer than broad ; the leaves of the pericline are shorter, 

 more scarious, and with the edges concolorous. The fruit is very 

 difl'erent, not half the size of that of C. inodorum, grey, with the ribs 

 slender, white. The whole plant is yellowish-green, glabrous, with 

 the scent of chamomile. 



Wild Chamomile. 



French, Matricaire Camomille. German, Aechte Kainille. 



