458 SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Anthemis. 



all converging inwards. Fl. solitary, on long, terminal, furrow- 

 ed stalks, very downy at the summit. Cal. downy, its scales 

 nearly equal, slightly bordered. Disk convex, bright yellow ; 

 the yellow, sharp, keeled scales of the receptacle visible just 

 above the florets, and remaining after they and their seeds are 

 gone. Rays numerous, finally recurved, pure white, elliptical, 

 unequally toothed, their length exceeding the diameter of the 

 disk, which as the seeds ri})en becomes conical. Seeds curved, 

 striated, abrupt, crowned with a quadrangular border. 

 The herbage has little or no smell, but thejlowers are pleasantly 

 scented. The synonyms of old writers are with difficulty appli- 

 cable to this plant or its allies, the receptacle, whether scaly or 

 naked, not being noticed by them. That of Bauhin is very doubt- 

 ful, on account of the authors he quotes, and especially his ob- 

 servation, that the present species differs from Chamcemelum 

 vulgare, Matricaria Chamomilla, only with respect to the smell. 

 Few plants of the same tribe differ more essentially and ob- 

 viously. In the regularity of the segments of its leaves, charac- 

 teristic of a true Anthemis, this species approaches A. tinctoria. 



4. A. Cotula. Stinking Mayweed, or Chamomile. 



Receptacle conical; scales bristle-shaped. Seeds without 

 any border. Leaves doubly pinnatifid, slightly hairy ; 

 segments spreading, 



A. Cotula. Linn. Sp. PL 1261. M^ld. v. 3. 2181. Fl. Br. 906. 



Engl. Bot.v. 25. t. 1772. Curt. Lond.fasc. 5. t. 61. Hook. Scot. 



247. 

 (]hamaemelum n. 104. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 44. 

 Ch. foetidum. Rail Syn. 185. Bauh. Pin. 135. 

 Ch. foetidum, sive Cotula foetida. Baiih. Hist. v. 3. p. 1. 120./. 

 Cotula foetida. Brunf. Herb. v. 1.255. f. Ger. Em. 757 .f. Lob. 



Ic. 773. f. Dalech. Hist. 1 345. f. 

 C. alba. Dod. Pempt. 258./. 

 Parthenium. Fuchs. Hist. 583. f. /c. 335./ 

 Stinking Camomile. Petiv. H. Brit. t.l9.f.\\. 



In corn fields, and waste ground, common. 



Annual. June, .July. 



Root tapering, twisted. Stems one or more, erect, branched, bushy, 

 leafy, angular and furrowed, smooth, solid. Leaves sessile, 

 bright green, smooth, or slightly hairy, doubly pinnatifid, and 

 cut ; the segments narrow, flat, a little succulent, spreading and 

 rather distant, not crowded or parallel, somewhat bristle-point- 

 ed. Fl. solitary, on terminal, striated, slightly downy stalks. 

 Cal. more or less hairy, its scales almost equal, obtuse, slightly 

 bordered. Disk convex, lemon-coloured, the slender bristle- 

 shaped, or awl-shaped, greenish scales not quite so tall as the 

 opening florets. Rnysvf\\iiQ, elliptical, 3-toothed, deflexed close 



