48 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
without ribs ; epigynous disk oblique, sometimes with, sometimes 
■without, a membranous border, which is most conspicuous in the 
aclienes of the ray-florets. 
SPECIES VI.— CHRYSANTHEMUM CHAMOMILLA. E. Maj. 
Plate DCCXIX. 
Reich. Tc. Fl Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. CMXCVII. 
BUlot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1235. 
Lcucanthemum Chamaamelum, Lam. Fl. Fr. Vol. II. p. 139. 
Matricaria Cliaraorailla, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1232. Lab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. 
}>. 179. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 258. Benth. Handbook Brit. Fl. 
p. 29G. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 416. Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. 
p. 1. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 149. C. 11. Schultz, liber die Tanacet. 
]>. 24. Reich. 1. a, p. 47. 
Stem very copiously corymbosely branched. Leaves bipinnate, 
the secondary leaflets cut into setaceous segments or entire ; 
middle and upper leaves sessile ; all glabrous. Anthodcs solitary 
at the extremity of the stem and very numerous branches, 
radiant or rarely discoid. Clinanth elongate - conical in fruit. 
Pericline flatfish, with the phyllaries flat, short, oblong-strap- 
shaped, yellowish with scarious concolorous margins. Florets of 
the ray ligulate, much longer than the phyllaries, white, rarely 
absent. Aclienes flatfish on the inner side with 5 ribs, curved 
on the outer and without ribs or fovese. 
In cultivated and recentlv disturbed ground. Not uncommon 
in England, especially in the neighbourhood of London. Rare in 
Scotland, where I have never seen it, except on the ballast-hills 
on the Fifeshire coast. 
England, [Scotland,] Ireland. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 
This plant bears a striking resemblance to slender forms of 
C. inodorum, but it is of a yellower green, generally much more 
branched, and with the branches and consequently the anthodes 
more regularly corymbosely disposed ; flic anthodes smaller, \ to f- 
inch across, with the ray shorter and reflexed immediately after 
flowering, which docs not occur in 0. inodorum until a later period; 
tin; disk is much more prominent while in flower, and afterwards 
becomes longer than broad ; the leaves of the pericline are short er, 
more scarious, and with the edges concolorous. The fruit is very' 
different, not half the size of that of C. inodorum, grey, with the ribs 
slender, white. The whole plant is yellowish-green, glabrous, with 
the scent of chamomile. 
Wild Chamomile. 
French, Matricairc Camomilk. German, Awhte Kamille. 
