or Camomile, in botany, a genus of the syngenesia polygamia superflua clas. The receptacle of the anthemis is paleaceous; it has no pappus; the calyx is globular. There are 18 species of anthemis, only five of which are natives of Britain, viz. the nobilis, or sweet-scented camomile; the cotula, or stinking May-weed; the arvensis, or corn-camomile; the maritima, or sea-camomile; and the tinctoria, or common ox-eye. The flowers of the anthemis nobilis are carminative, emollient, and aperient.

ANTHERÆ, among botanists, the little roundish or oblong bodies on the tops of the stamens of plants. See Stamina, and Botany.