COMPOSITE. 53 



counties of Essex, Nortliumberland, Fife, and Forfar ; but it has 

 not been found recently, and no doubt had been introduced. 



[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Stem 1 to 2 feet high, branched so as to form a small bush. 

 Leaves with the segments strapshaped, serrate or pinnatilid, all 

 united by a green strip on each side of the rachis, which gives off 

 processes between the segments. Peduncles long, leafless at the 

 top. Anthodes 1 to 1^ inch across. Achenes whitish. Plant 

 dull-green, more or less hairy ; the leaflets sparingly w^oolly 

 beneath. 



Ox-eye Chamomile. 



French, Canwmille dcs Teiiduriers. German, Farher Ihmds-Kam'dle. 



The flowers of this phmt affoi'd a remarkably clear and good yellow dye, and can 

 scarcely be distinguished from those of the corn marigold. 



Sub-Genus III.— ORMENIS. J. Gay. 



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

 cylindrical, enlarged at the base, w^hich is persistent and envelops 

 the fruit equally or on one side only. Achenes compressed-cylin- 

 drical, rounded at the apex, with 3 slender ribs on the inner face, 

 smooth or nearly so on the back; cpigynous disk much smaller 

 than the greatest diameter of the fruit. 



SPECIES I v.- A NTHEMIS NOBILIS. Linn. 



Plate DCCXXIV. 



Reich. le. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. MI. Fig. 2. 



Billot, FI. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 261. 



Chamomilla nobilis, Godr. Fl. de Lorr. Vol. 11. p. 19. 



Orraenis nobilis, J. Gay, in Fl. Par. ed. i. p. 3'J8. Coss «fe Germ. Fl. Par, ed. ii. p. 491. 



Perennial. Stems decumbent or ascending, alternately branched, 

 rarely simple. Leaves bi- or tripinnate (bi- or tripinnatipartite), 

 the leaflets (segments) short, linear-subulate, approximate, sparingly 

 hairy. Peduncles striate, densely pubescent. Anthodes few. Peri- 

 cline sparingly w^ooUy ; phyllaries always adpressed, with broadly 

 scarious white lacerate margins. Clinanth hemispherical at ma- 

 turity, clothed with short lanccolatc-strapshapcd obtuse scarious 

 palea;. Ray -florets white, rarely absent. Achenes cylindrical. 



