SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. Anthemis. 953 
Stem scored, branched, (about a foot high. E.) Leaves doubly winged, 
the upper often simply winged; wings distant; little wings with two or 
three clefts; leafits strap-shaped, of an equal breadth with the mid-rib. 
Flowei's solitary, terminal. Calyx , scales bluntly spear-shaped, hairy, 
membranous at the edge, with a green line along the back. Florets 
of the circumference white, nearly strap-shaped, at first expanding, 
afterwards bent back; those of the centre yellow. Receptacle almost 
cylindrical, dotted. Woodw. (In scent resembling the Officinal Cha¬ 
momile. E.) 
Wild Chamomile. (Irish: Meadh Druah. Welsh: Amranwen cyffredin. 
E.) In corn-fields, on dung-hills, and by the sides of roads. 
A. May—Aug.* 
(The plant hitherto supposed to be M. suaveolens of Linnaeus proves not to be 
so: the real one, according to Smith, having flowers only half the size 
of those of M.chamomilla , and never having been found in these countries. 
E.) 
AN'THEMIS.f Recept. chaffy: Down none: Calyx hemis¬ 
pherical, scales nearly equal: Florets of the circum¬ 
ference more than five. 
(1) {Florets of the circumference white. E.) 
A. arven'sis. Receptacle conical: (scales lanceolate, acute, keeled, 
projecting : leaves bi-pinnatifid, hairy : seeds crowned with a 
quadrangular border. E.) 
(E. Rot. 602 —FI. Dan. 1178. E.)— Kniph. U—Tabern. 70. I—Pet. 19. 8. 
Plant hoary. Stems spreading. It has the habit and size of A. Cotula , but 
the stems spread more, the fruit-stalks are longer, less scored, the grooves 
being only four or five ; in A. Cotula about eight. The leaves are more 
grey and scentless. The inner scales of the calyx are broad and mem¬ 
branous at the end, not so in A. Cotula. Chaff spear-shaped, in the other 
slender as a bristle ; apex of the seed crowned with a four-sided border 
as in Matricaria Chamomilla; in A. Cotula the seed has no such crown. 
Linn. Stem (twelve to eighteen inches high, E.) branched immediately 
above the root, scored,^slightly hairy, pale green, with sometimes a tinge 
of red. Branches generally naked upwards. Flowers terminal. Fruit- 
stalks hairy, and somewhat thicker beneath the calyx. Calyx , scales oval, 
with an awl-shaped green line along the back, somewhat hairy; edges 
membranous. Florets of the circumference white, somewhat elliptical, 
with two or three teeth, four or five lines long: those of the centre with 
a greenish tube, swelling upwards, border yellow, bent back. Chaff 
spear-shaped, very much pointed, somewhat keeled, as long as the florets. 
Woodw. Leaves (with parallel segments, E.) terminated by semi¬ 
transparent, conical, sharp points. {Plant nearly scentless; flowers 
slightly fragrant. E.) 
Corn Chamomile. (White Ox-eye. E.) Cotula alba. Cotula non 
foetida. Oculus bovis. Bupthalmum. Dod. Pempt. 259. Corn and fal- 
* Its properties resemble those of Anthemis nobilis , the Officinal Chamomile. The 
Finlanders use an infusion of it in consumptive cases. Cows, goats, and sheep eat it. 
Horses are not fond of it. Swine refuse it. (The larvae of Cassida viridis are nourished, 
by it. E.) 
t (From a>0£o), or ai^s/wv, a flower ; as having a profusion of blossoms. E.) 
