Note 1423 — I.—PHÆNOGAMOUS OR FLOWERING PLANTS. (continued 12)
Reading edition
De Stirpium ..., 1552. 149.—In Germany the epithet edel (= nobilis) is frequently used in popular botany to designate useful or remarkable plants. Tragus may have been induced to bestow it on the species under notice, on account of its superiority to Matricaria Camomilla, the so-called Common Chamomile of the Germans.