454 218. Matricaria. 39. COMPOSITE, C. Pl.ex.cal 



Matricaria vulgaris. Cominon feverfew. 



Stem upright; leaves petioled, compound, flat; leaflets 

 ovate, incised; peduncles branched, corymbose. 



Matricaria, Raii Syn. 187, 1 ; Ger. em. 652, 1. 

 Matricaria vulgaris, Park. 83. 

 Matricaria Panlienium, Lin. S. P. 1255. 

 Pyrethrum Parthenium, Smith Ft. Bifit. 900. 



Old walls and hedges; perennial ; June and July. 

 Root fibrous, branched ; leaves rather woolly. — Plant bit- 

 ter, aromatic, and yields an essential oil by distillation. 



XLIV. 219. CHAMOMILLA. Tragus. Wild-camomile. 

 Pericline hemispherical ; scales imbricate, in a few series, 

 herbaceous, pointed; culatkides rQ.A\QXedi; flowers all fertile j 

 of the centre hermaphrodite ; of the rays female, of a dif- 

 ferent colour ; cUnantkus long, conical, naked, dotted ; 

 akenium topshaped ; pappus 0. — Stem much branched; leaves 

 sessile, dark green, bald; calathides solitary, terminal. 



Chamomilla vulgaris. Common wild-camomile. 



Leaves lobed, pinnate ; leaflets linear, not cut or lobed ; 

 pericline rather flat, bald ; scales rather blunt. 



Cliamaemelum, Raii Syn. 184, 1 ; Ger. em. T54, 1, fig. 

 Ciiainaemelum vulgare, Park. 85. 

 Matricaria Chamomilla, Li7t. S. P. 1256. 

 Bitter camomile. 



Fields, waysides and dunghills; annual; May and June, 

 Stem upright, bald ; calathides many ; pericline-scales 

 white. — May be used for Roman camomile, with which it 

 is confounded by the old authors ; an infusion of it is used 

 in Finland in phthisis. 



XLV. 220. BELLIS. Pliny. Daisy. 



Pericline hemispherical; scales many, equal, in 2 series; 

 calathides radiate ; flowers all fertile ; of the centre herma- 

 phrodite, funnelshape, 5-cut ; of the rays female, many,* of a 

 diflerent colour; ligulae slender, lanceolate; clinanthus co- 

 nical, naked, tubercled; akeniuyn heartshape, compressed, 

 haii-y ; pappits 0. 



Bellis perennis. Peremiial daisy. 



Scape i -flowered; leaves reverse ovate, crenate, veined, 



Bellis nylvestris minor, iian %n. 184, , 

 BclUs minor sylvestris, Ger. em. 636,4. 

 Bellis minor sylvestris simplex, Park. 530. 

 Bellis i)erennis, Lin, S. P. 1248. 

 Cqmmon daisy. Days-eye. Bruisewort. 



