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The Flora of Wiltshire. 



2. A. Ootula, (Linn.) stinking Chamomile, stink Mayweed. 

 Cotula is a dim. of Cota, an old name for a species of anthemis, 

 " taken, as it is thought, from the Thuscans Cauta, the dim. being 

 Cautula," Parkinson. Engl. Bot. t. 1772. Reich. Icones, xvi.,! 

 1000. 



Locality. Fields and waste places. A. Fl. July, September. 

 Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Observed in all the Districts ; often too plentiful 

 on ill drained land. 



3. A. nobilis, (Linn.) noble or common Chamomile. Nobilis is 

 probably applied to this species to mark its superior medicinal 

 properties to the wild Chamomile (Matricaria Chamomilla) . Engl. 

 Bot. t. 980. St. 27, 15. 



Locality. On dry pastures, banks, and commons, chiefly on a 

 moist sandy soil. P. Fl. July, August. Area, * 2. 3. 4. 5. 



South Division. 



2. South Middle District, "Cultivated at Bemerton by Mr.| 

 Farrant," Major Smith. 



3. South-west District, " Warminster Downs," Mr. Wheeler. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, "About Chippenham," Dr. Alexander 

 Prior. 



5. North-east District, "Farm between Pewsey Koad and Man-j 

 ton," Flora Marlb. "Great Bedwyn," Mr. William Bartlett.\ 

 Very local in Wilts. The extremely short fleshy, and somewhat! 

 hoary segments of the leaves, with the procumbent habit and} 

 pungently aromatic odour of the bruised flowers, will enable anyj 

 one readily to distinguish this medicinal plant from several other t 

 British species of the same genus which greatly resemble it. The j 

 cultivated double variety of this plant is the Chamomile of the 

 druggists. 



Matricara, (Linn.) Feverfew. 

 Linn. CI. xix. Ord. ii. 

 Name. From Matrix, in allusion to its medicinal properties. I 

 1. M. Parthenium, (Linn.) common Fever-few. Engl. Bot. t.\ 

 1231. Pyrethrum, Smith. 

 Locality. Wall-tops, banks, and waste ground, especially near j 



