Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 651 689 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Matricaria chamomilla Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 891. 1753 . "Habitat in Europae agris, cultis." RCN: 6453. Lectotype (Grierson in Davis in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 33: 252. 1974): Herb. Clifford: 415, Matricaria 1 (BM-000647192) . Current name: Matricaria chamomilla L. ( Asteraceae ). Note: Applequist (in Taxon 51: 757-761. 2003) gives a detailed review of the nomenclatural complexities associated with this name, and accepts Grierson's type choice (a specimen of chamomile). Although both M. chamomilla and M. recutita L. (which has also been used for the species) date from 1753, Applequist argues that M. chamomilla is the correct name, Visiani having been the first to combine the two in 1844.