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Europe and part of Afia. It is a perennial, low Plant ; branched 
extremely, near the ground, and covering it with thick tufts of frelh 
green, foft, and fragrant Leaves. It flowers from June to o^ober, 
and the Flowers are white, with a pale yellow Dilk, 
This is the Chamaemile, whofe Flowers are, or fliould be, ufcd 
in medicine; but as culture eafily renders them double, and they 
look in that ftate larger and more beautiful, apothecaries chufe fuch 
for their ibops ; ignorant that in the Dilk of the Flower, which 
becomes obliterated in the double Hate, refldes the principal virtue. 
8. F I E L D C H A M /E M I L E. 
Plate 28. Fig. 8. Scentless Mayweed 
Character of the Species. Anthemis arvenfis. 
The Stalk fpreads into wide Branches, and the Di/k rifes 
in a Cone. 
Fiir. 8. a b . 
This is a weed in our corn fields, and covers the bank fences 
which divide them. It is a biennial Plant, a foot and half high’, 
with a thick, red St.dk, fpreading at top into a multitude of fcattered 
arms; and covered with fmall white Flowers in a long fucceflion. 
The Leaves are of a frefli green : they have neither good nor ill feent; 
and there are fpeary Chaffs upon the Dilk between the Flowers and 
Seeds. 
9. F OE T E D C H A M .T M I L E. 
Plate 29. Fig. 9. Stinking Mayweed, 
Charaftcr of the Species. Anthemis cotula. 
The Leaves are recompound in the winged manner : the 
Stalk is branched and fpreading, and the Flowers have 
a large rihng Di/lc. 
Fig. q . ar . b . 
This is an Annual, native of our own wafie grounds and dung- 
hills ; and from its early flowering, and its dilagreeable feent, has 
been called Stinking Mayweed : but the Eiiglifii vulgar names are 
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