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counties of Essex, Northumberland, Pife, and Forfar ; but it has 
not been found recently, and no doubt had been introduced. 
[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
Stem 1 to 2 feet high, branched so as to form a small bush. 
Leaves with the segments strapshaped, serrate or pinnatifid, all 
united by a green strip on each side of the rachis, which gives oil' 
processes between the segments. Peduncles long, leafless at the 
top. Anthodes 1 to li inch across. Achenes whitish. Plant 
dull-green, more or less hairy; the leaflets sparingly woolly 
beneath. 
Ox-eye Chamomile. 
French, Camomille des Teinturiers. German, Farber Hunds-Kamille. 
The flowers of this plant aiFord a remarkably clear and good yellow dye, and can 
scarcely be distinguished from those of the corn marigold. 
Sub-Genus III.— OUMENIS. J. Gay. 
Clinanth elongate-conical in fruit. Tube of the perfect florets 
cylindrical, enlarged at the base, which is persistent and envelops 
the fruit equally or on one side only. Achenes compressed-cylin- 
drical, rounded at the apex, with 3 slender ribs on the inner face, 
smooth or nearly so on the back; epigynous disk much smaller 
than the greatest diameter of the fruit. 
SPECIES IV.-AN THEMIS N OBI LIS. Linn. 
Plate DCCXXIV. 
. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. ML Fig. 2. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2G1. 
Cbamomilla nobilis, Godr. Fl. de Lorr. Vol. II. p. 19. 
Ormenis nobilis, J. Gay, in Fl. Par. ed. i. p. 398. Coss & Germ. Fl. Par. ed. ii. p. 491. 
Perennial. Stems decumbent or ascending, alternately branched, 
rarely simple. Leaves bi- or tripinnate (bi- or tripinnatipartite), 
the leaflets (segments) short, linear-subulate, approximate, sparingly 
hairy. Peduncles striate, densely pubescent. Anthodes few. Peri- 
cline sparingly woolly ; phyllaries always adpressed, with broadly 
scarious white lacerate margins. Clinanth hemispherical at ma- 
turity, clothed with short lanccolate-strapshaped obtuse searious 
paleip. Pay -florets white, rarely absent. Achenes cylindrical, 
