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5, MOTTLED CHAMOMILE. 
, Plate 28. Fig. 5. 
CharaAer of ihc Species. Anthemis mixta. 
The Rays are white but mottled with yellow at the Bafe : 
the Leav'cs are llngle but jagged. 
Fig. a a b. 
This is an annual weed in the corn fields and vineyards of France 
and Italy, and principally in thofe near the Sea; as alfo fometimes on 
the naked lands. The Leaves are of a bluifii green. The Plant is 
not more than a foot and a half high. The Flowers are numerous 
and large. The DilL is yellow, as in all the other kinds ; but it is 
fingular that in this that part of the Rays which joins the receptacle, 
and is near the DilL, is alio yellow. It flowers in July and Auguft. 
6. CHIAN CHAM.^MILE. 
Plate 28. Fig. 6. 
Character of the Species. Anthemis Chia. 
T he Footftalks of the Flowers are leaflefs but woolly : 
tlie Leaves are pinnated. 
Fig. 6 . a h. 
This is an Annual; native of the ifle of Chio, and flowers all 
Summer. The whole Plant fcarce rifes to a quarter of a yard in 
highth ; the Stalks divide into many branches, which fpread upon 
the ground ; and are thick covered with deep green Leaves. The 
Fipwers ftand fingly upon long, flender, wolly Footftalks : thefe 
rife eretft. 
7. SWEET CHAM.EMILE. 
Plate 28. Fig. 7. Roman CnAM/i:MiLE. 
Character of the Species. Anthemis nobilis. 
The Leaves are fubdivided in the winged manner, and 
their Segments are narrow, fharp pointed, and lightly 
hairy. 
Fig. 7. <7/. 
This is the long famous, and In a manner univerfal. Garden 
Chamremile ; we have called it Roman, from its fuppofed peculirr 
origin in Italy; but it is alfo a native of our own country, and ot all 
Europe 
