454 218. Matricaria. 39. COMPOSITE, C. PL ex, cal. 
Matricaria vulgaris . Common feverfew* 
Stem upright; leaves petioled, compound, flat; leaflets 
ovate, incised; peduncles branched, corymbose. 
Matricaria, Raii Syn. 187, 1 ; Ger. era. 652, 1. 
Matricaria vulgaris, Park. 83. 
Matricaria Partheniura, Lin. S. P. 1255. 
Py rethrum Parthenium, Smith FI. Brit. 900. 
Old walls and hedges ; perennial ; June and July. 
Root fibrous, branched ; leaves rather woolly. — Plant bit- 
ter, aromatic, and yields an essential oil by distillation. 
XLIV. 219. CHAMOMILLA. Tragus. Wild-camomile, 
Pericline hemispherical ; scales imbricate, in a few series, 
herbaceous, pointed ; calathides radiated ; flowers all fertile ; 
of the centre hermaphrodite ; of the rays female, of a dif- 
ferent colour ; clmanthus long, conical, naked, dotted ; 
akenium topshaped ; pappus O.—Stem much branched; leaves 
sessile, dark green, bald ; calathides solitary, terminal. 
Chamomilla vulgaris . Common wild- camomile. 
Leaves lobed, pinnate; leaflets linear, not cut or lobed; 
pericline rather flat, bald ; scales rather blunt. 
Chamaemelum, Raii Syn. 184, 1 ; Ger. era. 754, 1, fig.. 
Chamaemelum vulgare, Park . 85. 
Matricaria Chamomilla, Lin. S. P. 1256. 
Bitter camomile. 
Fields, waysides and dunghills; annual; May and June. 
Stem upright, bald ; calathides many ; pericline-scales 
white. — May be used for Roman camomile, with which it 
is confounded by the old authors ; an infusion of it is used 
in Finland in phthisis. 
XLV. 220. BELLIS. Pliny. Daisy . 
Pericline hemispherical ; scales many, equal, in 2 series ; 
calathides radiate ; flowers all fertile ; of the centre herma- 
phrodite, funnelshape, 5-cut ; of the rays female, many, of a 
different colour ; ligulae slender, lanceolate ; clinanlhus co- 
nical, naked, tubercled; akenium heartshape, compressed, 
hairy ; pappus 0. 
Beilis perennis, Perennial daisy , 
Scape 1 -flowered; leaves reverse ovate, crenate, veined, 
Beilis sylvestris mirror, Raii Syn. 184, t . 
Beilis minor sylvestris, Gtr. era. 636,4. 
Beilis minor sylvestris simplex. Park. 530,. 
Beilis perennis, Lin. S. P. 1248. 
Common daisy. Days-eye , Brnisctporjt, 
