Ariemisia.] > LXXVII. composir#. (J. D. Hooker.) 328 
shrubby, though described as herbaceous by Roxburgh. The corolla of the ray is not 
pubescent, as represented in Wight’s Icones. 
. **. Annuals, rarely perennials, 
6. A. scoparia, Waldst. § Kit. Pl. Rar. Hung. i. 66, t. 65; annual, or 
rootstock perennial, glabrous below, hoary or villous, radical leaves petioled 
broadly ovate 1-3-pinnatisect, segments linear, cauline filiform, heads minute 
15-19 1n. secund in slender panicled racemes, invol. bracts glistening oblong ob- 
tuse scarious with narrow green disks. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 304; Ledeb. FW. 
Ross. ii. 569; Clarke Comp. Ind. 158. A. elegans, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 421; Wall. 
Cat. 4300. A. trichophylla, Wall, Cat. 3305; DC. Le vi. 100; Clarke l.c. 
Upper Ganeetic Dram, and westwards to Scinp and the Draam. WESTERN 
Hmaraya ; from Kashmir to Lahul, alt. 5-7000 ft. Western Tinzr, alt. 7~12,000 
ft., Thomson.—Distris. Japan, Affghanistan to Central Europe. 
A faintly scented very slender branched annual, 1-2 ft. high; branchlets often 
almost capillary. Leaves, radical 1-3 in., long-petioled, the segments distant spreading ; 
cauline setaceous. Heads sessile or on short capillary pedicels. Achenes A, in. long 
(perhaps one of the most minute fruits of any flowering plant).—Though usually 
annual and described as such, some specimens, both from the plains of India and 
Tibet, have very woody stocks. 
7. A. stricta, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 73; annual, laxly villous 
or glabrate, erect or branches diffusely prostrate, radical leaves petioled 1-3- 
— segments linear or lanceolate, cauline sessile less divided or entire, 
eads yọ- in. diam. subglobose sessile in spiked clusters or solitary suberect, 
invol. bracts oblong obtuse pubescent, outer greenish with narrow scarious mar- 
gins glabrous and shining in age. Clarke Comp. Ind. 158. 
Tibetan Passes of the HrwaravA; Kumaon, alt. 10-11,500 ft., Edgeworth, Strach. 
d Winterb. Sıxxm, alt. 15,000 ft., J. D. H. Western Ter, alt. 10-13,000 ft., 
Thomson. 
Very variable; from a diffuse herb with spreading prostrate branches 2-6 in. long, 
to a tall branching one 2 ft. high, readily distinguished from 4. scoparia by the smaller 
less divided radical leaves, the shorter pinnatisect cauline ones, and the usually pubes- 
cent larger heads being sessile, erect or suberect, and forming very short spikes, and 
being not at all secund. The achenes are also larger than in that plant. 
8. A. annua, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 371; annual, erect, very 
slender, glabrous, branches deeply grooved, leaves broad 3-pinnatisect or decom- 
pound, segments serrate or lobulate, heads Zi in. diam. subglobose secund in 
. very slender panicled racemes pedicelled pendulous, invol. bracts glabrous, inner 
orbicular green with scarious margins at length all scarious and shining. A. 
Stewartii, Clarke Comp. Ind. 163. A. Wadei, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
xx. 72. 
The Pan: Peshawur to Wuzuristan, alt. 5500 ft., Stewart.—Distrm. Siberia, 
Affghanistan, and westwards to Hungary. 
A very strong scented species. It has 4-pinnatifid lower leaves, 3 in. broad, and 
as long, with stipuliform pinnatifid auricles at the base of the petiole, and with puberu- 
lous nerves beneath. Stewart’s specimens are tall, strict, copiously paniculately 
branched, with fully developed leaves deltoid-ovate in outline, identical with Edge- 
worth’s, and both with Siberian and Caucasian specimens of A. annua. Though 
usually placed in the section Abrotanum, I find the ray flowers to be always fertile and 
the disk flowers sterile. 
Secor. II. Seriphidium. Heads homogamous; flowers all fertile, recep- 
tacle naked. 
9, A. maritima, Linn.; Ledeb, Fl, Ross, ii. 570; hoary or tomentose, 
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