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3. Stinking Mayweed. 
Chamamelum fatidum. 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres, con- 
nected to a fmall, oblong head. 
The ftalk is upright, branched, and a foot 
and half high: itis of a purplifh colour at the 
bottom, of a whitifh green upwards, and ftriated. 
The leaves are divided into very fine fegments ; 
and they are of a blackith green. 
When bruifed they have a moft offenfive and 
difagreeable fmell. 
The flowers {tnd at the tops of the branches ; 
and are large and white, with a yellow difk. 
It is common in wafte ground, and flowers in 
May. 
_ ©. Bauhine calls it. Chamemelum fetidum. 
: Others, Cotula fetida. 
Its flowers have the fame virtues with thofe of 
common chamomile. 
4. Sea-Chamomile. 
Chamomelum maritimum crafis foliis. 
The root is compofed of numerous, thick, 
long fibres. 
The ftalks are branched, weak, and in part 
Procumbent, of a purplifh colour at the bottom, 
and. upwards of a pale green. 
The leaves are oblong, and of a deep green, 
divided into numerous {mall fegments, and of a 
thick fubftance, : 
The flowers are large and white, with a yellow 
difk. 
It is found about our fea-coafts, and flowers in 
July. , 
Ray calls it Chamemelum maritimum Perenne 
Lumilius. Be 
5+ Great-flowered Chamomile. 
Chamemelum inodorum flore magno. 
The root is fibrous. ‘ 
The falk is fingle, upright, branched, and a 
foot high, 
The leaves are divided into numerous fine feg- 
ments’; and they are obtufe at the ends. 
The flowers are large and white, with a yellow 
difk, 
Itis common among corn, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine cails it Chamemelum inodorum, 
Cr 
es 
6, Tall Chamomile with fmall flowers. 
Chamemelum elatius flore minore: 
The root is compofed of numerous, long, flen- 
der fibres. » : 
The ftalk is firm, upright, two feet high, and 
‘branched. 
The leaves are cut into very {mall fegments, 
and are of a faint green. 
The flowers ftand in great numbers at the tops 
of the branches; and are fmall, white; and yel- 
low in the centre. 
The ftalk in this fpecies is ufually red. 
It.is common on plowed land, and flowers in 
July. 
Ray calls it Chamamelum majus folio tenuiffine. 
7, Great-flowered procumbent Chamomile, ; 
Chamemelum caule. procumbente floribus majoribus, 
The root is long, flender, and hung with a 
few fibres, AY ee 
The ftalk is procumbent in great part, and is 
divided into many branches. 
The leaves are large, divided into fine feg- 
ments, and of a blackifh green. 
The flowers are few in number; but they are 
very large, white, with a yellow central difk. 
It is common in damp, plowed fields, flower- 
ing in Auguft. 3 
Ray calls it Chamemelum inodorum annum bu- 
milius. 
8. Broad-leaved Sea-Chamomile, 
Chamemelum maritinum latiore folio. 
The footis fibrous. 
The ftalks are numerous, anda foot or more | 
in length; but they lie in great part. on the 
ground. Their colour is a pale green; and they 
are very much branched. 
The leaves are broad, and of a pale green; 
and they are divided into numerous fegments, — 
which are alfo broader than in the other kinds, 
The flowers are large and white, with a yellow 
difk. 
It is frequent about our northern coafts, and — 
flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Matricaria marina. Ray, 
Chamamelum maritimum ramofius flore albo, 
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FEVERFEW: ‘ 
M CACT ORT COA RI ae 
HE flower is tadiated, and compofed of numerous flofcules of two kinds, placed in a common 
cup. This is of a hemifpheric form; and is compofed of narrow, clofe, compatted, and 
nearly equal fcales. The flofcules in the centre are tubular, 
and divided into five gaping fegments 
at the rim: thofe in the verge are flatted, oblong, and three-pointed. The feeds are oblong. 
Linnzeus places this with the reft among the /yugenefia. 
Feverfew, 
Matricaria vulgaris. 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres, con- 
neéted to an oblong {mall head, 
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The ftalk is of a pale green, upright, very 
much branched, and two feet and a half high, 
The leaves are large, broad, and of a yellowifh 
green, deeply divided in the pinnated manner in- _ 
to broad, indented fegments, 
: The 
