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See also:CHAMOMILE, or CAMOMILE See also:FLOWERS , the flares anthemidis of the See also:British See also:Pharmacopoeia, the See also:flower-heads of Anthemis nobilis (Nat. Ord. See also:Compositae), a See also:herb indigenous to See also:England and western See also:Europe. It is cultivated for medicinal purposes in See also:Surrey, at several places in See also:Saxony, and in See also:France and See also:Belgium,—that grown in England being much more valuable than any of the See also:foreign chamomiles brought into the See also:market. In the See also:wild plant the florets of the See also:ray are ligulate and See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white, and contain pistils only, those of the disk being tubular and yellow; but under cultivation the whole of the florets tend to become ligulate and white, in which See also:state the flower-heads are said to be See also:double. The flower-heads have a warm aromatic odour, which is characteristic of the entire plant, and a very See also:bitter See also:taste. In addition to a bitter extractive principle, they yield about 2 % of a volatile liquid, which on its first extraction is of a See also:pale See also:blue See also:colour, but becomes a yellowish See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown on exposure to See also:light. It has the characteristic odour of the flowers, and consists of a mixture of butyl and amyl angelates and valerates. Angelate of See also:potassium has been obtained by treatment of the oil with See also:caustic potash, and angelic See also:acid may be isolated from this by treatment with dilute sulphuric acid. Chamomile is used in See also:medicine in the See also:form of its volatile oil, of which the dose is 1-3 minims. There is an See also:official See also:extract which is never used. Like all volatile See also:oils the See also:drug is a stomachic and carminative. In large doses the infusion is a See also:simple emetic.
Wild chamomile is Matricaria Chamomilla, a See also:weed See also:common in See also:waste and cultivated ground especially in the See also:southern counties of England. It has somewhat the See also:appearance of true chamomile, but a fainter See also:scent.
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