produce's a difc barge of faliva, which relieves tooth-achs, 
and rheumatic afletlions of the face; it is recommended 
in lethargic complaints and paralyles of the tongue. 
II. With a concolour or yellow ray. 13. Anthemis 
Valentina, or purple-ftalked chamomile : Item branching, 
leaves pubefeent, tripirtnate, briftle-lhaped, calyxes vil- 
lofe, peduncled. It grows to the height of two feet, and, 
when allowed room, throws out many tide branches, efpe- 
ctally in good land. This plant has been continued in 
molt of the difpenfatories for many ages, and is fuppofed 
to be the lame which Diofcorides recommends as good for 
the jaundice, and to reftore the (kin to a good colour; 
but, of late years, it has been entirely difufed in the 
(hops: and, whenever ox-eye has been ordered, the greater 
ox-eye daify (chryfanthemum leucanthemumJ has been ufed. 
This grows naturally in Spain, Portugal, and Provence. 
The flowers are yellow, but there is a variety with white 
flowers: both are mentioned by Breynius. There is a 
third with naked flowers having no rays, which Linnaeus 
places in his genns of anacyclus; but all thefe will rife 
from the feeds of the fame plant, and frequently both ra¬ 
diate and naked flowers appear oij the fame branch. Thefe 
plants not only vary in their flowers ; but the leaves are 
different; ionie being finely divided, and others having 
broader fegments; and this from the fame feeds. Mr. 
Miller has figured that with yellow flowers, whole leaves 
are not lo finely divided as thofe of the white ; and which 
is fuppofed to be the true medical ox-eye. 
14. Anthemis repanda, or repand-leaved chamomile: 
leaves fimple, ovate-lanceolate, repand-crenate. Native 
of Spain and Portugal. 
15. Anthemis trinerva, or three-nerve-leaved chamo¬ 
mile : leaves ovate, ferrate, three-nerved, oppofite, petio- 
late, receptacle conic. Found in South America, by Mutis. 
j 6. Anthemis Americana, or American chamomile: 
leaves triternate, peduncles terminal, longer than the 
branch. A native of America. 
17. Anthemis tinfioria, or yellow chamomile, or ox- 
eye : leaves bipinnate, ferrate, tomentofe underneath, ftem 
corymbed. A native of Sweden, Germany, &c. in dry 
open paftures. Mr. Ray found it near the river Tees, not 
far from Sogburn, in the bilhopric of Durham. Linnaeus 
fays, the flow ers are ufed in Gothland in dying yellow. 
18. Anthemis Arabica, or Arabian chamomile: ftem 
decompound, calyxes branch-bearing. The feeds were 
brought from Arabia by the late Dr. Shaw, and were dif- 
tributed to many curious botanills in Italy, France, and 
England, where Ionie of tire plants were raifed. It muft 
have been lolt afterwards, for Dr. Smith obferves, (in 
1792,) that it is fcarcely to be met with in any garden, or 
even herbarium; and that his figure was drawn from a 
plant at the nrarchionefs of Rockingham’s, in 1790, the 
feed of which was received from the gardens at Carlfruth 
the preceding year, by Mr. Lee, of Hammerfmith. It is 
-an ornamental plant, and merits a place among hardy an¬ 
nuals. Its flavour is bitter and aromatic, but far weaker 
than officinal chamomile. Annual. 
19. Anthemis odorata, or ffirubby chamomile : leaves 
pinnatifid at the tip, peduncles elongate, calyxes membra¬ 
naceous, ray barren. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, 
where it was found by Mr. Francis Maft'on. It flowers 
from April to June. 
Propagation and Culture. Some of thefe plants are an¬ 
nuals, and others perennials, botli hardy enough, except 
the fifteenth and nineteenth, to bear the open air. They 
may be propagated by feeds lown in the Ipring, on poor 
land ; and require no other culture but to thin the plants 
where they are too clofe, and to keep them clean from 
weeds. They flower in July ; and, being generally bufliy, 
require room. The common or fweet chamomile may be 
increafed by flips planted in the fpring a foot afunder, 
that they may have room to fpread, and they will foon 
cover the ground. It was formerly planted for edges, to 
cover banks, and for walks. The variety with double 
flowers is equally hardy, and may be propagated in tire 
fame manner. The feeds of Arabian chamomile fhouid 
be fown in autumn, otherwife they are leldom perfected 
in England. 
AN'THERA, f. [from av 6©-, a flower : alfo antcraj 
A compound medicine ufed by the ancients, fo called from 
its florid red colour. There are various compofltions 
which had this name. They were prepared for any par¬ 
ticular part of the body, in the .form of powders, eledfta- 
ries, &c. and were ufed as collyriums, dentifrices, &c. 
AN'THERiE, or An'thers, f. in botany. A part of 
the flowers, big with pollen, or farina, a fine dull, which 
it emits, or explodes, when ripe ; or big v1th granalated 
pollen, and that wdtli fovilla: or it may be defined a vef- 
fel defiined to produce and emit a fubftance for the im¬ 
pregnation of the germ. It forms a part of the ftamen, 
and is placed on the top of tIre filament. It is the apex of 
Ray ; capfula Jlaminis of Malpighi; fummit, Janet , pendent y 
or tip , of Grew, and other Englifli writers. 
ANTHE'RICUM, J. [avO© Gr. flower of the 
hedges. J In botany, a genus of the hexandria monogynia 
elafs, ranking in the natural order of coronariae. The ge¬ 
neric characters are—Calyx: none. Corolla: petals fix, 
oblong, obtufe, fpreading very much. Stamina: filaments 
Tubulate, erect; anthers: final 1, incumbent, four-furrowed. 
Piftillum : germ obfeurely three-cornered ; ftyle fimple, 
the length of the flame ns ; ftigma obtufe, three-cornered. 
Pericarpium: capfule ovate, fmooth, three-furrowed,, 
three-celled, three-valved. Seeds : numerous, angular. 
Various fpecies have woolly filaments ; in others the pe¬ 
tals are not deciduous. The character of the genus is very 
difficult to afeertain.— EJJcntiaL Character. Corolla, fix-pe- 
talied, expanding; capfule ovate. 
Species. I. Phalangium ; leaves channelled, filaments 
generally fmooth. 1. Anthericum floribunduna, or thick— 
fpiked anthericum : leaves flat, fmooth, linear-lanceolate, 
acute; fcape fimple; raceme many-flowered, cylindric, 
compact j petals fpreading ; (lumens fmooth. Native of 
the Cape of Good Hope, where it was found by Mr. 
Francis Maifon. It flowers in March and April. 
2. Anthericum ferotinum : leaves flattifli, fcape one- 
flowered. This is a vernal plant, appearing after the 
melting of the fnows ; and growing only on high moun¬ 
tains, in Switzerland, Dauphine, Piedmont, Auftria, &c. 
and on Snowdon, &e. in Wales. Perennial, flowering in 
April and May. 
3. Anthericum graecum : leaves flat, fcape fimple, flow¬ 
ers corymbed, filaments woolly. From the Levant. 
4. Anthericum planifolium : leaves flat, fcape and fila¬ 
ments woolly. Root thick, oblong,yellowifh. A native* 
of Portugal ; flowering in April. 
5. Anthericum revolutum, or curled-flowered anthe¬ 
ricum : leaves flat, fcape branched ; corollas revolute.. 
Roots fleffiy, and compoled of tubers joined at the crown.- 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
6. Anthericum ramofum, or branching anthericum :- 
leaves linear-Tubulate, flat; fcape branched ; peduncles- 
folitary; corollas flat; piflils ftraight. Root round. A 
native of Sweden, the fouth of France, Switzerland, Auf¬ 
tria, Carniola, &c. The flowers watch from feven in the 
morning to three or four in the afternoon. It was culti¬ 
vated iu 1597, by Gerard. 
7. Anthericum elatum, or tall anthericum : leaves flat, 
fcape branched, peduncles aggregate, corollas Hat. Roots 
compofed of many tubers, each about the lize of a little 
finger at top, and diminifhing gradually to the fize of a 
draw. The flowers form a loofe fpike, and are white. 
This plant has probably been formerly in the Dutch gar¬ 
dens, for there are paintings of it in feveral flower-pieces, 
which are fuppofed to have been done above fixty years. 
However, it has been loft for l’ome years in Europe, and 
lias been lately recovered from feeds which were fent front 
the Cape of Good Hope to England and Holland. The 
firft feeds received by Mr. Miller were in 175a; and the 
plants raifed from them flowered in 1752, and perfected; 
their feeds. When they are fully blown, which is ufually 
