COMPOSITE. 1 ( J 
This plant possesses many of the properties of the true Chamomile, and on the 
Continent it is frequently used as a substitute for it. Much of what is sold as the oil 
of Chamomile is distilled from its flowers, and in Finland it is given as a tonic in 
Consumption. The flowers are less nauseous and bitter in taste than those of the true 
Chamomile. 
GENUS X.— A N T H E M I S. Lmn. 
Anthodes heterogamous and radiant, rarely discoid, many- 
flowered. Clinanth hemispherical or conical, with palce. Peri- 
cline saucer-shaped or hemispherical, of numerous imbricated 
herbaceous phyllaries, sometimes searious at the margin. Florets 
of the disk tubular, perfect, without auricles at the base enclosing 
the ovary, those of the ray ligulate, female or more rarely neuter. 
Aehenes with ribs all round or on the inner face only, crowned 
by a large or small epigynous disk, often crowned with a raised 
generally oblique membranous border representing the pappus. 
Herbs, with alternate finely-divided leaves. Anthodes gene- 
rally rather large, with the florets of the disk yellow, those of the 
ray white, yellow, or rose-colour. 
Tins gpnus de ives its name from the Greek word avdsfxov (anthemon), a flower. 
Sub-Genus I.— EU-ANTHEMIS (Anthemis, Gay). 
Clinanth elongate-conical in fruit. Tube of the perfect florets 
compressed-winged. Aehenes eylindrical-obconic, truncate at the 
apex, ribbed on both face and back ; epigynous disk as broad as 
the top of the achene. 
SPECIES I.— A NTHEMIS COTULA. Linn. 
Plate DCCXX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. M. 
. Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1233. 
Maruta Cotula, D. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 13. 
Annual. Stem erect, simple, or several from the crown of 
the root, corymbosely branched at the apex. Leaves bipinnate 
(bipinnatipartite), with the secondary leaflets (segments) cut into 
linear-acute segments, glabrous, not punctate. Peduncles striate, 
not enlarged beneath the anthodes. Anthodes very numerous, 
corymbose. Pericline sub - glabrous, with the phyllaries nearly 
equal, narrowly searious and pale at the summit, where they are 
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