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scarious and pale at the summit, where the interior ones are 

 dilated and often lacerate. Clinanth hemispherical or conical at 

 maturity, Avith lanceolate acute paleae. Ray-florets white, with 

 styles. Achenes nearly smootli and equally ribbed all round ; 

 epigynous disk rugose, with a conspicuous border. 



Var. a, fjriinhia. 

 Plate DCUXXJ. 

 A. arvensis, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. G03. 



Peduncles very slightly dilated at the apex ; secondaiy leaflets 

 (segments) elongated, toothed or pinnatifid, very sliglitly fleshy. 

 Cliuanth hemispherical-coniciil at maturity. 



Var. 3, Auglica. 



Plate DCCXXII. 



Anthemis Anglica, Spr. Bah. Man. Brit. But. ed. v. p. 178. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. 



ed. viii. p. 258. 

 A. luaritima, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 2370 (non Linn.). 



Secondary leaflets (segments) of the leaves reduced to large 

 teeth, fleshy. " Clinanth flat " (Sm. & Bab.). 



In cultivated fields, by roadsides, and in waste places. Eathcr 

 rare, but generally distributed, except in the North of Scotland, 

 though more abundant in that country than A. Cotula. Var. 

 found on the seacoast at Sunderland by Mr. Ilobson, and more 

 recently by Mr. Backhouse. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer 

 and Autumu. 



Stem much branched from the base, where it divides into 

 numerous decumbent or ascending rarely erect bi'anches 6 to IS 

 inches long ; primary branches simple in small specimens, slightly 

 and irregularly branched in large ones. Leaves resembling those 

 of A. Cotula, but the segments are broader and shorter, so that the 

 leaves appear less finely divided ; sometimes the segments are very 

 short and fleshy. Antliodcs 1 to 1-| inch across. 



This may readily be confounded with A. Cotula, hut the stems 

 are very rarely erect and never so copiously corymbosely branched 

 at the apex ; the whole plant is thickly covered witli hairs, and 

 from their abundance is often white on the young leaves ; the inner 

 phyllaries are dilated at the apex, the ray-florets have styles, the 

 pales are much broader and lanceolate-acuminate, not subulate. 

 The achenes are not rugose on the sides and have the epigynous 



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