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** Scales of the receptacle linear setaceous acute. 

 MARUTA Cass. 



2. A. Cot'ula (L.); receptacle long conical, fr. terete tuber- 

 cular-striate crowned with a crenulate margin surrounding a 

 slightly convex disk, 1. bipinnatitid nearly glabrous, lobes linear 

 acute mostly entire.^. JB. 1772. R. xvi. 1000. St. 12 feet 

 high, branched, angular, furrowed. Heads solitary on long 

 terminal stalks ; scales confined to the central part of the re- 

 ceptacle ; disk yellow ; ray white, usually without styles. Cor.- 

 tube 2-winged. " Phyli. blunt, with white membranous margins. 

 Fetid and acrid. [A procumbent sea-shore form with fleshy 1. is var. 

 maritima Bromf.l Fields and waste places. A. VII. IX. 



E. S. I. 



*** Scales of the receptacle thin membranous blunt. 



3. A. nob'ilis (L.) ; receptacle conical, fr. subtrigonous, 

 smooth, 1. bipinnate, leaflets linear-subulate slightly downy 

 rather fleshy acute. E. B. 980. St. 27. 15. St. procumbent, 

 1 foot long, much branched. Heads solitary, terminal : disk 

 yellow; ray white ; cor.-tube cylindric. Pleasantly aromatic. 

 Gravelly and sandy places. P. Vll. VIII. Chamomile. E. I. 



[Anacy'clus radidtus (Lois.). Berehaven, Co. Cork. Acci- 

 dental.] 



16. (17.) MATRICA'RIA Linn. Feverfew. 



Jl. M.Parthenium (L.) ; I. stalked pinnate, Us. ovate or oblong 

 pinnatifid, lobes cut, st, branched, heads corymbose, phyll. 

 linear blunt, receptacle convex,fr. crowned, with a short jagged 

 membrane. Pyrethrum Sm. E. E. 1231. St. erect, 2 feet 

 high, branched, furrowed, panicled. Heads in small corymbs 

 terminating the stem and branches ; disk yellow ; ray white. 

 Waste places, not very common. P. VII. VIII. Feverfew . E. S. 



2. M. inodora (L.) ; I. sessile pinnatifid with many capillary 

 pointed segments, st. branched, heads solitary, phyll. lanceolate 

 blunt, receptacle ovate, fr. rugose and with 2 glandular spots on 

 the external face just below the elevated entire border. Pyre- 

 thrum Sm. E. B. 676. St. erect, 12 18 in. high, smooth, 

 angular. L. in very narrow mostly alternate segments. Heads 

 solitary, ending the branches ; margin of phyll. cut and fuscous ; 

 ray white; disk yellow. Base of the invol. turbinate after- 

 wards truncate ; recept. hemispherical afterwards conical, 

 much longer than broad. Fr. with 3 prominent smooth ribs. 



