Matricaria
(so called from its former use in uterine affections). ORD. Compositoe. A genus of about seventy species of annual, rarely perennial, branched herbs, natives of Europe, North and South Africa, and West Asia. Flower-heads yellow, with the ray white or absent; involucral bracts in few series, nearly equal; receptacle broad, flat or conical, elongate after flowering, naked. Leaves much-divided, with narrowed lobes. Few of the species are worthy of cultivation; the annuals are readily raised from seeds, and the perennials by divisions of the roots, or by cuttings. M. inodora flore-pleno (double-flowered, inodorous).* fl.-heads white. A double form of a native weed, a very floriferous and pretty border plant. In some gardens, it is met with under the name of Anthemis Chamomilla flore-pleno.