170 45. COMPOSITE. 
Disk yellow, ray white. Scales of the receptacle shorter than 
the opened flowers, subulate. (See DC. Prod. vi. 10.)—Sea-shore. 
Sunderland. Mr. Robson. Mr. James Backhouse, 1844! A. vue 
** Scales of the receptacle linear-setaceous acute. MaRutTa Cass. 
4. A. Cotula (L.) ; receptacle elongate-conical, fr. terete tuber- 
cular-striated crowned with a crenulated margin surrounding a 
slightly convex disk, 1. bipinnatifid nearly glabrous, lobes linear 
acute mostly entire —E. B. 1772.—St. 1—2 feet high, branched, 
angular, furrowed. Heads solitary, on long terminal stalks ; disk 
yellow ; ray white, without styles. Tube of cor. 2-winged. Phyll. 
obtuse, with white membranous margins. Whole plant fetid and 
acrid.—Fields and waste places. A. VII—IX. 
*** Scales of the receptacle thin membranous obtuse. 
5. A. nobilis (L.) ; receptacle conical, fr. ‘ subtrigonous smooth 
crowned with an obsolete margin,” |. bipinnate, leaflets linear- 
subulate slightly downy rather fleshy acute.—E. B. 980. St. 27. 
15.—St. procumbent, ] foot long, much branched. Heads soli- 
tary, terminal, disk yellow, ray white. Pleasantly aromatie.— 
Gravelly and sandy places. P. VII. VIII. Chamomile. EI. 
{Anacyclus radiatus (Lois.); 1. bipinnatifid rather woolly, 
lobes linear-subulate, outer phyll. hairy on the back, inner obtuse 
dilated diaphanous above.—Heads solitary, ray yellow.—Dunboy 
Quay, Bearhaven, Cork. Mr. W. Wilson. A. VII] 
13. (22.) AcuiLLEA Linn. 
1. A. Ptarmica (L.); l. shining linear-lanceolate attenuated 
acute glabrous smooth uniformly and finely serrate, serratures ad- 
pressed mucronate minutely scabrous at the margin, ray 8—12- 
flowered as long as the involucre, corymb compound.—E. B. 757. 
St. 10.—St. about 2 feet high, shghtly branched above, erect, 
leafy, angular, smooth. Phyll. with a dark brown membranous 
margin. Limb of the radiant florets longer than broad, white. 
Disk broad, white. L. sometimes very narrow ; serratures closely 
adpressed, lower not deeper than the others.—Moist meadows 
and thickets. P. VII. VIII. Sneezewort. 
2. A. decolorans (Schrad.) ; 1. opaque linear-lanceolate bluntish 
downy thickly punctured coarsely and doubly serrate with spread- 
ing serratures laciniate and radiating at the base, ray 5- or 6- 
flowered about as long as the involucre, corymb compound.—A. 
serrata Sm., E. B. 2531 (not Retz.).—St. simple, erect, leafy, 
with axillary leafy tufts, downy. Phyll. with a reddish-yellow 
membranous margin. Limb of the radiant florets pale yellow, 
broader than long. Disk darker yellow. L. not at all attenuated 
