Anthemis Cotula. Stinking Mayweed. 
Recept. paleaceum. Pappus nullus. Cal. hemifpteicus, fubiequalis. 
Flofculi radii plures quam 5. 
Raii Syn. Gen. 8. Herbas flore composito discoide semiNibus pap^o 
DESTITUTIS CORYMBIFERAS DICT.E. 
ANTHEMIS Cotula receptaculis conicis: paleis fetaceis, feminibus nudis. Lin. Syjl. Vegetab. 
p. 646. Sp. Pl. p. 1261. FL Suec. n. 767. 
CHAMiEMELUM foliis glabris, duplicato-pinnatis, nervo foliaceo, pinnulis lanceolatis feminibus 
exalperatis. Haller hijl. 104. 
ANTHEMIS Cotula. Scopoli FI. Carn. n. 1092. 
CHAM^EMELUM fetidum. B. Pin. 135. 
CHAMyEMELUM fetidum feu Cotula fetida I. B. III. 120. 
COTULA alba Dod. Pempt. 258. Raii Syn. p. 185. Stinking Mayweed. Hudfon. Fl. Angi. ed. 2. 
p. 373. Lightfoot Flor. Scot. p. 495. 
Tota planta feetidiflima, fublanuginofa. | The whole plant extremely fetid, and (lightly woolly. 
RADIX annua, fimplex, fibrofa. | ROOT annual, fimple, and fibrous. 
CAULIS pedalis ad bipedalem, ere£tus, fubangulatus, STALK from one to two feet high, upright, fome- 
ftriatus, pubefeens, ramofus, fepe ufque ad £ what angular, finely grooved, downy, branched 
bafin. I often almoft to the bottom. 
FOLIA alterna, feflilia, fublanuginofa, pinnata, cofta | LEAVES alternate, feffile, (lightly woolly, pinnated, 
lineam lata, fubtus carinata, pinnis plerum- % the midrib a line broad, keeled underneath, 
que ramofis, planis, acutis, fuperne punciis * the pinne for the moft part branched, fiat, 
impreflis, nudo oculo confpicuis notata. | pointed, on the upper fide marked with im- 
| prefled dots vifible to the naked eye. 
PEDUNCULI erefli, flriati, nudi, fuperne fubin- £ FLOWER STALKS upright, finely grooved, naked, 
craifati. | fomewhat thickened above. 
FLORES albi, difeo luteo, minime virefeente. | FLOWERS white, the centre yellow, without any 
f tendency to green. 
CALYX communis, hemifphericus, imbricatus, fqua - 1 CALYX common to all the florets, hemifpherical, 
mis pallide virentibus, exterioribus obtufis, $ imbricated, the feales of a pale green colour, 
fufeo marginatis, carina faturatius virente, f the outer ones blunt, and edged with brown, 
% the keel more deeply coloured. 
FLOSCULI riTffc tredecem circiter, feminei, fubovati, £ FLOWERS of the radius about thirteen, female, 
lineas duas fere lati, obtufi, binerves, triden- £ nearly ovate, almofl two lines broad, obtufe, 
tati, dentibus obtufis. Jig. 1. pars tubulofa £ two-rib’d, terminating in three obtufe teeth, 
flofculi ut ut Germen, glandulis pellucidis,* jig. 1. the tubular part of the floret as well as 
nudo oculo confpicuis ornata, Jig. 2. Stigma | the Germen, ornamented with tranfparent 
bifidum, laciniis reflexis, fepe mancum, b glands, vifible to the naked eye. Jig. 2. 
jig. 3. I Stigma bifid, the fegments reflexed, often 
I imperfeft, Jig. 3. 
FLOSCULI difei numerofi, tubulofi, hermaphroditi, FLOWERS of the aijk numerous, tubular, herma- 
quinquedentati, jig. 4. Stigma bifidum, la- * phrodite, five-tooth ’d, Jig. 4. Stigma bifid, 
ciniis revolutis. Jig. 6. Germen ut ut corolla | the fegments rolled back. Jig. 6 . Germen as 
ad lentem glandulofa. Jig. 5. * well as the corolla, when magnified, (ludded 
f with little glands. Jig. 5. 
SEMEN obtufe tetragonum, fufeum, rugofum, apice | SEED bluntly four-cornered, brown, wrinkled, flat 
planum, pun&o in vertice prominulo, ex- f at top, with a prominent hollow point in the 
cavato, inferne attenuatum, Jig. 7. au6t. % centre, below (tenderer, Jig. 7. magnified. 
RECEPTACULUM fubcylindraceum, fuperne paleis b RECEPTACLE nearly cylindrical, on the upper part 
0 I furnifhed with rigid, briftle-lhaped palete or 
I chaffj Jig. 8. 
fetaceis, rigidis in(lru£tum. Jig. 8. 
The Anthemis Cotula, like the Matricaria Chamomilla, is very common in corn-fields, where it is well 
known frequently to blifter the (lcin of the reapers, or of children who may happen to gather it, which the 
Matricaria never does if the plant be examined with a microfcope, it will be found befprinkled with little 
glands, in which its acrid matter mod probably refides. 
Independent of this quality, it. abounds to that degree in fome corn-fields, as greatly to diminifh the crop. 
It is fond of a foil well manured, and as it is frequently fuff'ered to feed on dunghills, it by that means 
often becomes more generally dilfeminated : farmers cannot be too careful in weeding their dunghills ; they 
are not aware of the amazing increafe from a fingle plant of the Anthemis Cotula, Rumex crifpus, Chenopodium 
album, or many others equally, if not more, injurious. r 
We have obferved the petals to vary much in length and breadth, and Botanifts have fometimes found it 
with double flowers. 
It differs greatly in its qualities from the Anthemis nobilis and Matricaria Chamomilla , has never been much 
in ufe, nor are its medicinal effeas well known. Decoaions of it are faid fometimes to have been employed 
as a bath or fomentation againft hyfteric fuffocations, and hemorrhoidal pains and fwellings. Mr. Ray fays, 
that a decoaion of the herb has by fome been given internally, with fuccefs, in fcrophulous cafes. Brown 
Langrish gives an account of a decoaion of it throwing a perfon affliaed with rheumatifm into a profufe 
(weat, and curing him. Lewis’s Mat. Med. p. 223. Vid. Matricaria Chamomilla. 
