OLASS XIX. ORDER I1.] ANTHEMIS. 1095 
of an infusion, combined with a small quantity of Mpsom saits, is 
one of our best stomachic aperients; or in many cases of heartburn or 
acidity of the stomach, if taken with half a teaspoonful of carbonate 
of soda, is extremely useful. As a fomentation the decoction is used, 
or what is much better, the flowers themselves boiled in a flannel 
bag, and then pressed dry as can be, and applied to inflamed breasts, 
&e., are a most valuable remedy. The florets of the disk by cultiva- 
tion expand in the same form as those of the ray, in which state they 
look better, but lose in their quality as a medicine what they gain in 
appearance. ‘I'he single wild flowers are much stronger. 
3. A. arven'sis, Linn. (Fig. 13805.) Corn Chamomile. Leaves bi. 
pinnatifid, pubescent, the segments linear lanceolate, entire, or 
toothed, bristle pointed; stem erect, branched; receptacle conical, its 
scales lanceolate, bristle pointed, membranous; fruit obtusely qua- 
drangular, crowned with an entire pappus. 
English Botany, t. 602.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 458.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4 vol. i. p. 808.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 150. 
Root tapering, and fibrous. Stem erect, from one to two feet high, 
much branched, striated, more or less clothed with soft loose pu- 
bescence. Leaves all sessile, bi-pinnatifid, its segments narrow, linear 
lanceolate, entire, or toothed. the points short, bristly, all more or 
less clothed with soft spreading pubescence. J//owers numerous, 
solitary upon the ends of the stem and branches, the peduncles very 
downy at the top. Jnvolucre downy, its scales oblong, obtuse, with a 
narrow membranous margin. Jlorets very numerous, those of the 
ray with an oblong obtuse entire or toothed limb, white, spreading, 
becoming reflexed, those of the disk yellow, short, tubular, the limb 
five cleft. Jteceptacle conical, its scales membranous, lanceolate, 
bristle pointed, not so long as the florets, or as long. Fruit oblong, 
curved, obtusely quadrangular, suleated, crowned with an entire 
membranous pappus. 
Habitat.—Corn fields and waste places, especially in a sandy soil; 
very local in England; Dunfermline, near Edinburgh, and Linlith- 
gow, Scotland; in the Pheenix Park, and near Lambeg, County of 
Down, Ireland. 
Biennial; flowering in June and July. 
The flowers of this plant, although pleasantly scented, are far from 
possessing the properties of A. nobilis. 
4. A. Co'tula, Linn. (Fig. 1306.) Stinking Chamomile. Leaves 
bi-pinnatifid, smooth, the segments linear, entire, or toothed, bristle 
pointed ; stem erect, branched; receptacle conical, its scales bristle- 
shaped ; fruit rounded, striated, without pappus. 
English Botany, t. 1772.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 459.— Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 808.--Maruta fatida, Cassini.— 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 150. 
