SYNGEN. POLYGAM. SUPERF. 247 



tifid the segments capillary, involucre nearly plane its scales 

 obtuse. Lightf. -p. 491. E. B. t. 1232. 



HAB. Corn-fields and waste ground. FL Aug. Q. 



Stem about a foot high, erect and branched. Flowers with a very co- 

 nical disk, yellow; the rays white, very obtuse, truncate, and 

 toothed. This has a bitter taste, a faint but weak smell, not un - 

 like that of the common Chamomile (Anthemis nobilis). 



36. ANTHEMIS. 



1. A.notilis (common Chamomile), leaves bipinnate the seg- 

 ments linear subulate a little downy, scales of the receptacle 

 membranous scarcely longer than the disk. Lightf. p. 493. 

 E. B. t. 980. 



HAB. Amongst rubbish near gardens, scarcely in dig., Dr. Burgess. 

 FL Aug. V - 



Stems about a foot long, procumbent, and much branched, each branch 

 terminated by a single jlower, whose disk is yellow, at length 

 conical, and ray white. The whole plant intensely bitter, highly 

 aromatic, and much used medicinally. Its principal virtues are 

 supposed to exist in the involucre, which contains an essential 

 oil. 



2. A. arvensis (Corn Chamomile), leaves bipinnatifid their seg- 

 ments linear lanceolate pubescent, receptacle conical its scales 

 lanceolate, pericarps crowned with an entire pappus. Lightf. 

 p. 494. E.B.t.602. 



HAB. Corn-fields and way-sides in gravelly soils. Lanes about Lass- 

 wade, and on the N. side of Linlithgow, Dr. Parsons. Rosslyn 

 woods, Mr. Stewart. Ft. July. <J . 



Stem upright, much branched, and, as well as the leaves, hoary with 

 pubescence, each branch terminated with a large^ower, whose disk 

 is yellow, the ray broad and white. 



3. A. Cotula (stinking Chamomile), leaves bipinnatifid glabrous 

 their segments subulate, receptacle conical its scales setaceous, 

 pappus 0. Lightf. p. 495. E. B. t. 1772. 



HAB. Waste places, corn-fields, and byroad-sides. Fl. July, Aug. 0. 



Stem a foot or more high, glabrous. Flowers solitary, terminal, their 

 disk convex, pale yellow 5 ray rather large, white. The whole plant 

 has a fetid smell, and is said to blister the hands of those who ga- 

 ther it. If it be examined with a microscope it will be found to be 

 sprinkled all over with little glands, in which the acrid matter is 

 probably lodged. 



4. A. tinctoria (Ox-eye Chamomile), leaves bipinnatifid ser- 

 rated downy beneath, stem erect branched subcorymbose. 

 E.B.t.\472. 



HAB. Road-side N. of Forfar, G. and D. Don. FL July, Aug. If. . 

 Stem a foot or more in height, cottony, as are the scales of the mvo- 

 lucrc. Flowers solitary, large, entirely yellow. 



