1036 ANTHEMIS. [CLASS XIX. ORDER 1. 
Root tapering. Stem solitary, or several from the same root, erect, 
branched, bushy, smooth, striated, and often angular. Leaves all 
sessile, bright green, smooth, or somewhat hairy, rather fleshy, bi- 
pinnatifid, the segments narrow, linear, bristle pointed. Flowers 
terminating the stem and branches, solitary, the peduncles mostly 
somewhat downy beneath the flowers. Jnvoluere smooth, or slightly 
downy, its scales oblong, obtuse, with a narrow membranous margin. 
Florets numerous, those of the ray with an oblong obtuse entire or 
toothed spreading white limb, of the disk small, yellow, tubular, five- 
cleft. Receptacle conical, its scales linear, bristle-shaped, about as 
long as the florets. Fruit roundish, obovate, striated and furrowed, 
the crown without pappus. 
Alabitat.—Corn fields and waste places; frequent. 
Annual ; flowering in June and July. 
The whole plant has a strong acrimonious smell, and it is said 
blisters the hands of those who gather it from among growing corn 
&c. By the aid of a strong magnifying power it will be seen that the 
whole plant is studded over with small glands, which secrete the 
acrid oil. 
* Florets all yellow. 
5. A. tincto'ria, Linn. (Fig. 1307.) Ox-eye Chamomile. Leaves bi- 
pinnatifid, downy, the segments pectinato-serrated; stem erect, 
branched ; receptacle sub-hemispherical, its scales lanceolate, with a 
rigid bristle point; fruit quadrangular, striated, crowned with a 
narrow pappus. j 
English Botany, t. 1472.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 460.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 309.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 150. 
Root tapering. Stem erect, from one to two feet high, bushy, 
angular, smooth, or downy, especially above. Leaves sessile, bi- 
pinnatifid, green, and somewhat hairy above, white and downy 
beneath, the segments pectinated, with acute bristle pointed teeth, the 
rachis also toothed. lowers large, bright yellow, numerous, ter- 
minal, the peduncles striated, naked, downy. Jnvolucre downy, its 
scales lanceolate, thin, with a dark mid-rib, the margin especially of 
the inner ones fringed with a brown border. /lorets numerous, those 
of the ray with an ovate oblong obtuse entire or toothed limb, 
spreading, those of the disk tubular, five-cleft. Receptacle hemi- 
spherical, with its scales membranous, lanceolate, having a hard awl- 
shaped point, as long or longer than the florets. ruit oblong, 
quadrangular, compressed, striated, and crowned with a narrow mem- 
branous entire margin. 
Habitat—Stony mountainous places, rare. Banks of the river 
Tees, Durham; in Essex, and near Forfar, Scotland. 
Perennial ; flowering in July and August. 
The flowers of this rare species of Anthemis are handsome and gay- 
