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in a much greater degree the peculiar bitter chamomile prin- 
ciple, and is more efficacious than the Lisbon sort. 
De Candolle refers Anthemis nobilis (3 Jloscidosa Pers. ii. 406 
to the present pi. ; for which he had perhaps some special 
ground. Otherwise it would seem rather to belong to the ray- 
less state ((3 discoidea Gay) of Ormenus nobilis (L.) to which 
Persoon refers it, since he otherwise must be supposed to have 
recorded the same pi. twice oyer in two successiye pages — first 
as Anacyclus aureus L. and afterwards under Anthemis no- 
bilis L. 
In the rayless yar. (3 discoidea Gay in Bourg. PL Ilisp. Exs. 
1849, no. 281 &c., of 0. nobilis (L.), the heads vary from 4-7 
lines (being never less than 4 and mostly 5 or 6) in diam. with- 
out the ray. In O. aureus (L.) they never exceed 4 lines in 
diam. 
Brotero’s fig. in Phvt. Lusit. t. 163 of the present pi. is ex- 
tremely bad, as already remarked by Webb ; but his descrip- 
tion leaves no doubt about the pi. intended. 
Of pi. allied to O. aureus (L.) by name or affinity, Anthemis 
aurea Brot. FI. Lusit. i. 894 is referred by DC. doubtfully to 
O. nobilis (L.). It may prove however to be rather a radiate 
state of O. aureus (L.), as the locality and remark of Brotero 
“ deme radium corolla}, habebis Anacycl. aurewn ” seem to sug- 
gest, though I have never met with such a state. 
Anacyclus aureus Lam. Diet. i. 141, 111. t. 700. f. 2 is Cotula 
aurea L., a very different pi. 
fl8. Antiiemis L. 
{Anthemis, Chamanrnelum , Maruta Cass.) 
fl. A. Cotula L. Maryaqa. 
Scented, mostly smoothish or glabrescent, gr. not hoary, eo- 
rymbosely branched upwards ; 1. impunctate tufted or crowded 
down the st. feathery or finely multifid 2-8-pinnatipartite, in 
outline ovate-oblong* or oval, not more than twice as long as 
broad, the divisions all fine and narrow-lanceolate or linear 
acute equal in breadth, close or crowded and tufted ; heads ra- 
diate terminal loosely subcorvmbose ; fl. of ray mostly neuter; 
recept. chaffy all over, sometimes only upwards towards the 
centre; chaffs linear-setaceous with subulate points smooth ca- 
ducous; ach. coarsely 10-ribbed tuberculate clavate subquadr- 
