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upon, the faster it grows." The whole plant is 

 very bitter, and its old name is derived from a 

 Greek word signifying apples, because it was 

 thought to have the scent of that fruit. 



We have five wild species of camomile, and 

 three of these are very common flowers. One 

 kind, the stinking camomile, {Anthemis cotula,) 

 has, indeed, the most disgusting odour. It 

 grows by road-sides and waste places, and often 

 bhsters the hands of those who gather it. 



A very pretty family of plants, the cudweed, 

 is abundant in August, One species is well 

 known, and may serve to guide to the others, 

 though none of our wild kinds are so handsome 

 as this. It is the flower called, everlasting love, 

 and is famihar to those who have visitedthe cele- 

 brated cemetery of Pere la Chaise, where wreaths 

 of its blossoms, dyed of a deeper yellow, and 

 intermingled with others dyed of a jet black, 

 are thrown upon the tombs of the beloved, or 

 celebrated, and sold in all the ways which lead 

 to the ground. The Parisians term this flower 

 Vimmortelle. It is a native of Africa, and the 

 Gnaphalium Orientale of the botanist. Our 

 wild cudweeds are smaller than this, and their 

 stems and foliage generally covered with woolly 

 and cottony down. Most of the wild cud- 

 weeds grow on sandy or gravelly heaths, or 

 pastures ; some on mountains, and a few on 

 bogs. One of the most frequent, the common 

 cudweed, {G^iaphalium Germanicum,) is found 

 on dry places, and as its mode of growth is 

 very singidar, it may, by this, be knovra from t^e 



