COMPOSITE. 



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found on the north-east coast of Eng- 

 land, has been figured as A. maritima 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 2370), but the true plant 

 of that name is limited to the shores of 

 the Mediterranean. The British plant 

 has been since described as a species, 

 under the name of A. anglica. 



Fig. 511. 



3. Common Camomile. Anthemis nobilis, Linn. (Fig. 512.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 980.) 



A procumbent or creeping, branched 

 perennial; the flowering branches shortly 

 ascending, and leafy. Segments of the 

 leaves fine, and pointed as in the fetid C, 

 but fewer and more compact. Flower- 

 heads on terminal peduncles, with white 

 rays. Inner involucral bracts more 

 scarious at the top than in the last two 

 species. Scales of the receptacle rather 

 broad, obtuse, and nearly as long as the 

 central florets. 



A native, apparently, of western Eu- 

 rope, and chiefly of sandy pastures near 

 the sea, but having been long cultivated, 

 it has established itself in so many places 

 that its precise area cannot well be 



made out. Evidently indigenous in southern England and Ireland, 

 but decreases rapidly northward, and not a true native of Scotland. 

 Fl. summer and autumn. 



Fig. 512. 



