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2. Anthemis nobilis L. Sp. Pl. 894. 1753. 
Anthemis odorata Lam. Fl. Fr. 2: 163. 1778. 
Chamaemelum nobile All. Fl. Ped. 1: 185. 1785. 
Chamomilla nobilis Godron, Fl. Lorr. 2: 19. 1843. 
Ormenis nobilis J. Gay.; Coss. & Germ. Syn. Fl. Par. 153. 1845. 
Matricaria nobilis Baillon, Hist. Pl. 8: 309. 1882. 
A perennial aromatic leafy herb; stems 1-3 dm. high, pubescent, branched, decumbent to 
erect; leaves 2—4 em. long, villous-hirsute, pinnatifid or bipinnatifid, with short linear-lanceolate 
cuspidate divisions; heads solitary at the ends of the branches; involucre saucer-shaped, about 
5 mm. high and 10 mm. broad; outer bracts lance-ovate, obtuse, the inner elliptic, rounded 
at the apex, with white scarious margins; receptacle conic; paleae membranous, concave, 
oblong, obtuse, often erose at the apex; ligules white, 6-10 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide; disk- 
corollas 3 mm. long; tube cylindric, longer than the throat; achenes somewhat pyriform, 
1-1.5 mm. long, yellowish, with 3 filiform ridges on the inner side; pappus none. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. 
- DISTRIBUTION: Rhode Island to North Carolina, escaped from cultivation; native of western 
urope. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Hayne, Arzn. Gew. 10: pl. 47; Engl. Bot. pl. 980; Woodv. Med. Bot. pl. 19; 
Guimp. & Schlecht. Abb. Pharm. Boruss. pl. 192; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 16: pl. 1001, f. IT; 
Fl. Deuts. ed. 5. pl. 3036; Coste, F!. Fr. f. 1950; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 3986; ed. 2. f. 4558. 
5. MARUTA Cass. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1818: 167. 1818. 
Leafy annuals. Leaves alternate, bipinnatifid, with narrow divisions. Heads radiate, 
solitary at the ends of the branches. Involucre saucer-shaped; bracts in 2 series, subequal. 
Receptacle conic, chaffy towards the apex; paleae subulate, stiff, rather persistent. Ray- 
flowers 10-15, neutral; ligules white. Disk-flowers hermaphrodite and fertile; corolla-tube 
cylindric, longer than the funnelform throat; lobes 5, ovate, spreading. Anthers with ovate 
obtuse tips. Style included, with short branches truncate and fimbriate at the apex. Achenes 
nearly cylindric, 10-ribbed, glandular-tubercled. Pappus wanting. 
Type species, Anthemis Cotula L. 
1. Maruta Cotula (L.) DC. Prodr. 6: 13. 1837. 
Anthemis Cotula L.. Sp. Pl. 894. 1753. 
Anthemis foetida Lam. Fl. Fr. 2: 164. 1778. 
Chamaemelum Cotula All. Fl. Ped. 1: 186. 1785. 
Chamaemelum foetidum Hall.; Baumg. Enum. Stirp. Transsilv. 3: 144. 1816. 
Maruta foetida S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 456. 1821. 
Moaruta vulgaris Bluff & Fingerh. Comp. Fl. Germ. 2: 392. 1825. 
Anthemis cotuloides Raf.; DC. Prodr. 6: 13, as synonym. 1837. 
Matricaria pubescens Schultz-Bip. Bonplandia 8: 369. 1860. 
Matricaria Cotula Baillon, Hist. Pl. 8: 310. 1882. 
An ill-scented leafy annual; stem 2—5 dm. high, much branched, erect or ascending, striate, 
more or less pubescent; leaves sparingly pubescent, 2-6 cm. long, bipinnatifid into linear- 
filiform, entire or incised, cuspidate divisions; involucre about 3 mm. high, 6-8 mm. broad; 
bracts elliptic, obtuse or acutish, pubescent; ligules 6-8 mm. long, 2 mm. wide; disk-corollas 
greenish-yellow, glandular-granuliferous, 2 mm. long; achenes 1-1.5 mm. long. 
TyPE LOCALITY: Europe. 
Distrmution: Newfoundland to Florida, California, and Alaska, thoroughly naturalized; 
native of Europe, northern Africa, and the Orient. 
I-tustrations: Curt. Fl. Lond. 5: pl. 61 (2: pl. 179]; Fl. Dan. pl. 1179; Schkuhr, Handb. 
pl. 254; Hayne, Arzn. Gew. 1: ig 6; Sv. Bot. pl. 429; Engl. Bot. pl. 1772; W. Barton, Veg. Mat Med. 
pl. 14; Baxter, Brit. Bot. pl. 328; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 16: pl. 1000, f. I; F1. Deuts. ed. 5. pl. 3035; 
Coste, Fl. Fr. f. 1954; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 3984; ed. 2. f. 4556; Clark & Fletcher, Farm Weeds 
Can. pl. 25; ed. 2. pl. 59. 
6. CHAMOMILLA (Hall.) Gilib. Exerc. Phyt. 178. 1792. 
Matricaria 1. Sp. Pl. 891, in part. 1753 
Lepidanthus Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 396. 1841. Not Lepidanthus Nees. 1830. 
Tripleurospermum Schultz-Bip. Tanac. 31. 1844. 
