GO ENGLISH BOTANY. 
not dilated. Clinanth conical at maturity, with linear-subulate 
acute firm palea?. Ray-florets white, almost always without 
styles. Achenes smoothish on the inner face, with 3 faint ribs, 
remotely-tuberculate and 7-ribbed on the back and sides ; epigy- 
nous disk smooth, with a scarcely perceptible border. 
In cultivated fields. Common in the South of England, less 
frequent in the North and in Scotland, and absent in the North of 
the latter country. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
Stem 9 inches to 2 feet high, simple at the base in small speci- 
mens, but branched close to the ground in large ones, the top always 
corymbosely branched. Leaves closely resembling those of Chry- 
santhemum inodorum and C. Chamomilla, but with the segments 
broader, united together by narrow herbaceous strips, so that they 
are bipinnatipartite rather than bipinnate, the segments generally 
very acute. Anthodes about 1 inch across, terminal, on long fur- 
rowed hairy or sub-glabrous leafless peduncles ; disk yellow, convex 
in flower, elongating in fruit ; ray of numerous oblong-strapshapod 
florets, soon reflexed after flowering. Achenes yellowish-white, 
bluntly 5-sided, 10-ribbcd. Plant nearly glabrous, foetid. 
The scales on the receptacle distinguish this from Chrysanthe- 
mum inodorum and C. Chamomilla. 
Stinking Mayweed. 
French, Camomille Fetide. German, Stinkende ITunds Kamille. 
This is one of the most troublesome weeds in gardens, and is easily recognized by 
its foetid odour; it is acrid, and will even blister the skin if held long in the hands. 
Toads are said to like this plant, but it is very displeasing to bees. It is a strong active 
bitter ; a decoction given in the dose of a teacupful will produce copious vomiting 
and perspiration, and powerfully promotes the action of an emetic. 
SPECIES II— ANTHEMIS ARVENSIS. Linn. 
Tlates DCCXXT. DCCXXIL 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Ilelv. Vol. XVI. Tab. MIV. 
Billot, FL Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. X<>. 28G5. 
Annual. Steins decumbent or ascending, much branched at 
the base, simple or slightly corymbosely branched at the apex. 
Leaves bipinnate (bipinnatipartite), with the secondary leallets cut 
into strapshaped acute segments (or only serrate in var. 0), hairy, 
not punotate. Peduncles striate, densely pubescent, slightly en- 
larged immediately beneath the anthodes. Anthodes few on each 
main branch, rcricline hairy ; phyllarics nearly equal, largely 
