CLASS XIX, ORDER It. ] MATRICARIA—ANTHEMIS. 1093 
Habitat.—Corn fields ; frequent. 
Annual; flowering from June to August. 
This, though a very common field flower, is very handsome, and 
would form a pretty showy ornament of the garden border. 
GENUS XLIII. MATRICA'RIA.—Iinn. Wild Chamomile. 
Nat. Ord. Composi’tm. Juss. 
Gren. Cuar. Jnvolucrum hemispherical, or flat, the scales obtuse, 
without a membranous margin. SFlorets of the circumference 
ligulate, with a compressed tube. eceptacle naked, conical. 
Pappus wanting—Named from its reputed medicinal properties. 
1. MW. Chamomil'la, Linn. (Fig. 1302.) Wild Chamomile. Leaves 
smooth, bipinnatifid, with capillary segments; involucre nearly flat, 
the scales obtuse. 
English Botany, t. 1232.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 455.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 308.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 148. 
Root tapering. Stem erect, about a foot high, smooth, striated, 
mostly much branched. eaves numerous, sessile, embracing the 
stem, smooth, deep green, the upper ones simply pinnate, the rest 
doubly pinnatifid, all with hair-like segments, spreading. Flowers 
solitary, terminating the stem and branches. Jnvolucre flat, the 
scales smooth, oblong, obtuse, without any membranous margin. 
Florets of the ray white, the limb oblong, obtuse, entire, or toothed at 
the end, those of the disk short, tubular, yellow, five-cleft. Receptacle 
conical, hollow, naked. /ruit angular, obliquely ovate, smooth. 
Habitat.—Corn fields and waste places; frequent. 
Annual ; flowering in August. 
The whole plant has much the appearance of the common 
Chamomile, and the flowers have somewhat the same kind of odour. 
Its naked conical receptacle, however, readily distinguishes it from 
the Anthemis. 
GENUS XLIV. ANTHE’MIS.—Linn. Chamomile. 
Nat. Ord. Composi'ta. Juss. 
Grn. Cuan. Jnvolucrum hemispherical, or flat, its scales with a 
membranous margin, imbricated. Florets of the circumference 
ligulate, imperfect. Receptacle convex, paleaceous. Fruit 
crowned with a more or less prominent margin.—Named 
ov9sn0v, a flower; from the profusion of its heads. 
* Florets of the ray white. 
