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ANTHEMIS maritima.
Sea Chamomile.
SYNGENESIA Polyqamia-'uperjlua.
G en. Chah. Becept. chaffy. Seeds scarcely bordered.
Cal. hemispherical, nearly equal. Florets of the
radius more than five, oblong.
Spec. Char. Leaves doubly pinnatifid, acute, fleshy,
somewhat hairy. Stem prostrate. Calyx slightly
downy.
Syn. Anthémis maritima. Linn. Sp. PL 1259. Sm.
FI. Brit. 904. Huds. 374. With. 740. Hull,
ed. 2. 240. Phelps Calend. 136.
Chamæmelum maritimum latifolium ramosissimum,
flore albo. Dill, in Bail Syn. 186.
A NATIVE of the sea shore in rocky or stony places, but
of rare occurrence. Mr. Robson favoured us with a wild specimen
from Sunderland, Durham, and our figure has been
assisted by one from a garden. The plant is annual, flowering
in J uly.
The stems grow prostrate, in a circular position, and are
from 6 to 12 inches long, angular, leafy, hoary, sometimes purplish
; branched and bearing several flowers. Leaves sessile,
alternate, fleshy, most hairy beneath, cut into many sharp
pinnatifid segments, flat qn the upper side, flowers solitary,
on terminal, downy, swelling stalks. Calyx hemispherical,
its scales torn and almpst feathery, invested with a few fine
hairs. Disk flat, yellow, the sharp chaffy scales of the recep -
tacle rising above the unopened flprets; radius of many white,
spreading, slightly toothed, oblong, florets. Seeds crowned
with a narrow entire border. The flowers smell like Tansy,
the leaves like Mugwort. The scales of the receptacle distinguish
it at once from Pyrethrum maritimum, t. 979, npt to
mention the hoariness of the herbage.
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