AiithemisJ] XLVI. coMPOSiTiE : corymbifer^. 



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the segments capillary, involucre nearly plane its scales obtuse, 

 receptacle cylindrical-oblong hollow. E. B. t. 1232. 



Corn-fields and waste ground, in various places. 0. 6S. 

 Stem about 1 foot high, erect and branched. Heads oi flowers with a 

 conical ^2 i-y^; the my very obtuse, truncate and toothed. Receptacle 

 narrow, much elevated, twice as long as broad, and often acute. 

 Scales of the involucre scarcely so membranaceous at the margin as in 

 the preceding species. This has a bitter taste, and a faint but aro- 

 matic smell, not unlike that of the common or true Chamomile {An- 



thtmis nobilis), 



45. A^'ntiiemis Linn. Chamomile. 



Achenes terete or obscurely 4-angle(l. Pappus a membrana- 

 ceous border or 0. Receptacle convex, chaffy. Involucre hemi- 

 spherical or nearly plane, the scales imbricated, membrana- 

 ceous at their margins. Florets of the disk terete, of the rat/ 



Name : avdsixic^ 2. flower^ from the profusion of 



oblong-linear, 

 its blossoms. 



Florets of the ray with a style. 



•j" Scales of the receptacle thin, membranous, obtuse. 



1. A. nohilis L. (common C) ; leaves bipinnate segments 

 linear-subulate a little downy, receptacle conical its scales 

 scarcely longer than the disk. E. B, t. 980. 



Dry gravelly pastures and waste places, in several parts of England. 

 Isles of Cumbrae and Bute, Scotland. Kerry, Ireland. U. 7 — 9. 

 Stem about a foot long, procumbent and much branched ; each 

 branch terminated by a s\ng\Q flower, whose disk is yellow, at length 

 conical, and ray white. The whole plant is intensely bitter, highly 

 aromatic and much used medicinally. Its principal virtues are sup- 

 posed to reside in the involucre^ which contains an essential oil. 



II Scales of the receptacle ivith an acute rigid point, 



2. A. "^A^ngUca Spr. {Sea Ch.) ; leaves pinnatifid somewhat 

 hairy, lobes inciso-serrate acute bristle-pointed rather fleshy, 

 ''receptacle flat, its scales subulate shorter than the unopened 

 florets, achenes crowned with a very narrow entire border." 

 Bab. A. maritima L. ? : Sm. ? E. B. t. 2370. 



Sea-coastat Sunderland; Mr. Rohson ; Mr, Backhouse {1 844). 2/.. 

 7. — With this we are entirely unacquainted : it is probably some 

 Continental species cast upon our shores, and in an abnormal state. 

 De Candolle and others maintain that it is quite different from the 

 true plant of Linnaeus, which is apparently that described by Smith 

 m the English Flora, a species supposed to be peculiar to the south 

 of Europe, having fleshy glabrous or hoary dotted leaves, and an un- 

 equally and broadly 1 — 2-toothed margin to the achenes The plant 



mentioned in our iifth edition as having been found at Dunboy Quay, 

 Bearhaven, Co. Cork, Ireland, by Mr. W. Wilson, proves to be Ana^ 

 ci/cJus raduitus Loiscl, brought there perhaps with ballast. 



