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27. COMPOSIT.E. 



fleshy midrib and broad, soarioiis borders; ontor flowors 

 8, about as long as the involucre, with a yellow ray, which 

 is very soon rolled backwards; central flowers about 10, 

 greenish and shorter than the involucre. 



Fields between Brighton and Marino. — Aug. -Oct. — South 

 Africa. 



11. ACHILLKA, L. 



Involucral bracts unequal, in 3-4 rows, with scarious 

 edges; central flowers tubular, bisexual, outer flowers female 

 with almost circular rays ; recep- 

 tacle flattish, with scales; style- 

 branches truncate, anthers acute 

 at base ; akenes compressed, 

 without pappus or ribs. 



1. Achillea tanaceti- 



f olia, All. Tomentose or woolly 

 perennial, M'ith creeping loot- 

 stock ; stems stiff, erect, simple, 

 ribbed, leaves oblong-lanceolate 

 in outline, bipinnatisect, axis 

 winged and toothed in the upper 

 part, segments narrow, the lobes 

 with mucronate teeth ; the lower 

 leaves very long, the upper ones 

 half-clasping; heads in a dense, 

 broad corymb; involucre ovoid, 

 hairy; ray-flowers 5, with a 

 broad 3-lobed ligule, dark-red in 

 South Australian specimens, 

 sometimes white in Europe. 



Roadsides and cultivated 

 ground, Mount Lofty Eange. — 

 Oct.-Apl. — Southern Europe. 



Achillea tanacetif olia. 



12. Anthkmis, L. 



ln\()]ucre hemisphei'ical with overlapping bracts, recep- 

 tacle conical at maturity, beset with scales; central flowers 

 tubular, bisexual, outer flowers female, ligulate. 



Kay-flow(M-s witli a stylo: downy peroiiiiial .1. uohHis 1 

 Ray-flowers without a style; glabrous, 



"animal 1. Cotula 2 



1. Anthetnis nobilis, L. Common Chamomile. 

 Downy, scented perennial, with prostrate or ascending 

 stems; leaves whitish-green, once or twice pinnati.sect. with 

 short, acute lobes; heads solitary, terminating the branches; 

 involucral bracts oblong with very broad, scarious borders; 

 .scales of receptacle oblong, torn at summit ; central flowers 

 yellow, ray white; akenes small, cylindrical, with 3 



