COMPOSITJE. 53 



counties of Essex, Northumberland, Fife, and Forfar ; but it lias 

 not been found recently, and no doubt had been introduced. 



[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Stem 1 to 2 feet high, branched so as to form a small bush. 

 Leaves with the segments strapshaped, serrate or pinnatifid, all 

 united by a green strip on each side of the rachis, which gives off 

 processes between the segments. Peduncles long, leafless at tho 

 top. Autliodes 1 to 1^ inch across. Achenes whitish. Plant 

 dull-green, more or less hairy ; the leaflets sparingly woolly 

 beneath. 



Ox-eye Chamomile. 



Frenclj, CanunnUle des Teinturiers. German, Farher ffunds-Katnille. 



The flowers of tliis plant afford a remarkably clear and good yellow dye, and can 

 scarcely be distinguished from those of the corn marigold. 



Sub-Genus III.— ORMENIS. J. Gay. 



Clinanth elongate-conical in fruit. Tube of tlie perfect florets 

 cylindrical, enlarged at the base, wliich is persistent and envelops 

 the fruit equally or on one side only. Achenes compressed-cylin- 

 drical, rounded at the apex, with 3 slender ribs on the inner face, 

 smooth or nearly so on the back; epigynous disk much smaller 

 than the greatest diameter of the fruit. 



SPECIES IV.-A NTHEMIS NOBILIS. Lbm. 



Plate DCCXXIV. 



lieich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. MI. Fig. 2. 



BUM, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. Xo. 2G1. 



Chamomilla nobilis, Goilr. Fl. de Lorr. Vol. II. p. 19. 



Ormcuis nobilis, J. Gay, in Fl. Par. ed. i. p. 398. Coss & Germ. FJ. Par. ed. ii. p. 491. 



Perennial. Stems decumbent or ascending, alternately branched, 

 rarely simple. Leaves hi- or tripinnate (bi- or tripinuatipartite), 

 the leaflets (segments) short, linear-subulate, approximate, sparingly 

 hairy. Peduncles striate, densely pubescent. Anthodes few. Peri- 

 clinc sparingly woolly ; phyUaries always adpressed, with broadly 

 scarious wliite lacerate margins. Clinanth hemispherical at ma- 

 turity, clothed with short lancoolate-strapshaped obtuse scarious 

 paleiT. Pay -florets white, rarely absent. Achenes cylindrical. 



