SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 493 



^. 3. AN THEMIS Tcccptaculis conicis paleis letaceis, 



fcminibus nudis. Sp.pl. 1261, (Ger. em. 757./. 



I. Vet. herb, t ig.f. 12. Moris, hijt. f. 6. /. 12. 



/. 10. Blackwell t. 6^) 



Stinking Camomile, or May-weed. Anglis. 



Jn wafte places, corn fields, and by way-fides. g« 



VI. VII. 

 The.ftalk is a cubit high, ered, branched, and 

 furrow'd with about eight ftreaks : the leaves 

 are fmooth, or nearly lb, doubly pinnatli : the 

 pinnuU narrow and lanceolate, the extreme one 

 trifid : the fcales of the calyx are narrow, and 

 very (lightly membranaceous on the edges : the 

 difc of the flower is yellow and conical : the 

 rays white : the chaff on the receptacle fetace- 

 ous or briftle-fhap'd : the feed has no marginal 

 crown, but only a pore at the top. 

 i3. It varies fometimes with a double flower, as ob- 

 ferved by Sibbald, in his Natural Hiftory of Fife- 

 /hire. 

 The whole plant has a ftrong foetid fmell, and, 

 where it abounds, is often found to bliller the 

 hands of weeders and reapers. 



ACHILLEA. Gen.pL^yi. 

 Recept, paleaceum. fappus nullus. €aL ovatus, 



imbricatus. Floculi radii circiter 5, 

 ACHILLEA foliis lanceolatis acuminatis argute 

 ierratis. Sp. pi. 1266. (Ger. em. 606. /. i. Pef. 

 herb. t. i^'f. 3. Moris, hijl. f.€.t. 12. jig. prima 

 inferiorjs^rdinis. BUck-wellt. -276,) 



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