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A N T H EMI S tinctoria.
Ox-eye Chamomile.
SYNGENESIA Polygamia-superjlita.
G en. Char. Recept. chaffy. Seeds scarcely bordered.
Cal. hemisphærical, nearly equal. Florets of the
radius more than 5, oblong.
Spec. Char. Leaves doubly pinnatifid, serrated, downy
underneath. Stem corymbose, erect.
Syn. Anthémis tinctoria. Linn. Sp. Pi. 1263. Sm.
FI.-Brit. 907. Buds. 374. With. 740. Hull. 189.
Dicks. H. Sice.Jasc. 17. 17. Don. Herb. fasc. 2.
42. FI. Dan. t. 741.
Buphthalmum vulgare. Raii Syn. 183.
F o u n d here and there in fields and stony places, but not
frequently. In Ray’s time it was observed in the county of
Durham. Mr. Dickson has, more recently, gathered it in
Essex, and Mr. G. Don near Forfar. In curious gardens it
is preserved for its rarity.
W e are not sure that the root is more than biennial: hence
perhaps the plant is so little stationary as, by the acounts of
those who have sought for it, seems to be the case. Stem
bushy, corymbose, a foot or two in height, angular, cottony.
Leaves doubly pinnatifid, deeply and sharply serrated, flat,
downy beneath. Flowers on solitary terminal woolly stalks.
Calyx hemisphserical, with jagged cottony scales. Florets of
both disc and radius of a rich golden yellow, the latter broadish
and elliptical. Scales as long as the tubular florets, yellow,
awl-shaped, dilated at the base.
The flowers are said to afford a fine yellow dve.