COMPOSIT.E. 49 



This plant possesses many of the properties of the true Chamomile, and on the 

 Continent it is frequently used as a substitute for it. Much of what is sold as the oil 

 of Chamomile is distilled from its flowers, and in Finland it is given as a tonic in 

 consumption. The flowers are less nauseous and bitter in taste than those of the true 

 Chamomile. 



GENUS X— A N T H E M I S. Linn. 



Anthodes heterogamous and radiant, rarely discoid, many- 

 flowered. Clinanth hemispherical or conical, with paleae. Peri- 

 cline saucer-shaped or hemispherical, of numerous imbricated 

 herbaceous phyllaries, sometimes scarious at the margin. Florets 

 of the disk tubular, perfect, without auricles at the base enclosing 

 the ovary, those of the ray ligulate, female or more rarely neuter. 

 Achenes with ribs all round or on the inner face only, crowned 

 by a large or small epigynous disk, often crowned with a raised 

 generally oblique membranous border representing the pappus. 



Herbs, with alternate finely-divided leaves. Anthodes gene- 

 rally rather large, with the florets of the disk yellow, those of the 

 ray white, yellow, or rose-colour. 



This genus derives its name from the Greek word uiOef-wy {(intlcemon), a flower. 



Sub-Genus I.— EU-ANTHEMIS (Anthemis, Gay). 



Clinanth elongate-conical in fruit. Tube of the perfect florets 

 compressed-winged. Achenes cylindrical-obconic, truncate at the 

 apex, ribbed on both face and back ; epigynous disk as broad as 

 the top of the achene. 



SPECIES I.— A NTHEMIS COTULA. Lhm. 



Plate DCCXX. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. M. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1233. 

 Maruta Cotula, D. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 13. 



Annual. Stem erect, simple, or several from the crown of 

 the root, corymbosely branched at the apex. Leaves bipinnate 

 (bipinnatipartite), with the secondary leaflets (segments) cut into 

 linear-acute segments, glabrous, not punctate. Peduncles striate, 

 not enlarged beneath the anthodes. Anthodes very numerous, 

 corymbose. Pcricline sub - glabrous, with the phyllaries nearly 

 equal, nari'owly scarious and pale at the summit, where they arc 



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