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margins, and therefore the plane more properly 

 belongs to the preceding genus. 

 The whole plant has a ftrong fragant fmcll, and 

 has always been efteem'd a good emmenagogue, 

 and very ferviceable in hyfteric complaints. The 

 beil way of taking it is in a flight infufion in 

 the manner of tea. It is alfo an agreeable car- 

 minative and bitter, ftrengthcns the ftomach, and 

 difperfes flatulencies. The exprefs'd juice is 

 faid to kill v^orms in the bowels. It has likewifc 

 been recommended as a febrifuge, whence it 

 took it's ErgliftJ name. 



mariiima 2 MATRICARIA receptaculis hcmifphsericis, foliis 

 bipinnatis fubcarnofis, fupra convexis, fubtus 

 carinatis. Sp. pi. 1256. (^Raj. Syncp. 186./. - 



/.I.) 



Sea Feverfew. Anglis. 



On the fea'Coafl:s in fandy foils, as in the ifland of 

 ButCt and on the wefl:ern fide of Cantire^ be- 

 tween Machrianijh and Barr^ &c. if. VII, 



The fl:alk is nine inches hgh, fmooth, red, firm, 

 and diffiifely branched : the leaves are of a dark 

 green colour, fmooth and fucculent : the flowers 

 have a yellow difc, and white patent rays : the 

 plant has fomething of a fweec but very little 

 fcent. 

 chamomilla MATRICARIA receptaculis conicis, radiis paten- 

 3. tibus, fquamis calycinis margine jequalibus. 



Syft, nat. ^6'^, Sp, pL 1256. (Ger, em. 754./. 1. 

 Mcriu hiji.f, 6. /. J2./. 7. Blackwell t, 298.) 



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