924. LXXVII, composira. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Artemisia. 
shrubby below, stems erect or ascending much branched from the bases, leaves 
ovate 9-pinnatisect, segments small spreading linear obtuse, upper simple linear, 
heads 3-8-fld. ovoid or oblong suberect in spicate fascicles, invol. bracts linear- 
oblong, outer herbaceous tomentose, inner scarious acute glabrous. DC. Prodr. 
vi. 102; Clarke Comp. Ind. 159. A. brevifolia, Wall. Cat. 3806; DC. Prodr. 
vi. 103, A. fragrans, Willd.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 366, A. acetica, Jacq. in 
Bess. Monog. Dracunc. Suppl. 86; DC. l. e. 105. 
Western HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 7-9000 ft. WESTERN 
Ter: in salt plains, alt. 9-14,000 ft., abundant.—Distrre, Coasts of Europe and 
saline tracts of N. Asia. 
Rootstock woody, branched; stems 6-18 in., strict, woody or wiry. Leaves $-2in., 
often quite white, with very many segments; petiole slender. Heads often reddish, 
crowded and braeteolate by a small linear or almost setaceous leaf—The heads are 
erect in most of the Indian specimens, which refers them to the form called fragrans 
of Willdenow, but Clarke mentions a variety with nodding heads which he (in mss.) 
refers to A. nutans, Willd.; and he has a var. Thomsoniana for a form with very 
woolly leaves and suberect heads (4. Lehmaniana, Bge.) Wallieh's A. brevifolia in 
no way differs from A. maritima. 
Ser, III. Abrotanum. Heads heterogamous; ray-fl. 9 , disk-fl, 5, all 
fertile; receptacle naked (or puberulous in A. persica). 
* Annuals or biennials. 
10. A. caruifolia, Ham. in Roxb. Hort. Beng. 61; Fl. Ind. iii. 162 
(by error carnifolia) ; annual, quite glabrous, stem branched above densely leafy, 
leaves sessile capillaceo-multifid, heads 4-1 in. diam. hemispheric pedicelled 
secund drooping in axillary leafy racemes, invol. bracts glabrous broadly oblong, 
outer herbaceous with narrow scarious margins, inner scarious. Wall. Cat. 
3299; DC. Prodr. vi. 119; Clarke Comp. Ind. 162. A. riparia, Herb. Ham. 
Eastern BENGAL, Assam, NrPAr and Binwa.—DisrRiB. China. 
Stem 2-4 ft., stout, but soft and herbaceous. Leaves deep green, segments very 
narrow and weak. Heads green, many-fld. ; receptacle hemispheric. 
ll. A. Tournefortiana, Reichb. Ic. Exot. i. 6, t. 5 ; annual, stout, erect 
quite glabrous simple or thyrsoidly branched, leaves linear-oblong or ovate 
pinnatisect, rachis lobulate, segments distant oblong toothed laciniate or pinnatifid, 
cauline and floral sessile elongate, heads ovoid à in. c erect in very dense 
axillary erect sessile compound thyrsoid panicles, invol. bracts glabrous erect 
after flowering obovate-oblong acute scarious with a narrow green disk, recep- 
tacle very small. DC. Prodr. vi. 119; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 872; Clarke Comp. 
Ind. 163. 
Western Himataya and Western Tiset; alt. 8-12,000 ft; Kashmir, Falconer ; 
Kunawur and Piti, Jacquemont, Thomnson.— DisTRIB. Affghanistan and westward to 
Armenia. 
Very stout, 2-4 ft.; stem green or purplish. Leaves green, 3-5 in, long, soft, 
petiole and rachis slender. Heads clustered like the inflorescence of an Amaranthus. 
Achenes larger than usual in the genus, about 4; in. long.—The Sikkim plant referred 
to this by Clarke (1. c.) is A. biennis, which differs widely in the size, form and colour 
of the heads, and in the broad receptacle. 
12. A. biennis. Willd. ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 503 ; green and rather succu- 
lent, glabrous or pilose, leaves 2-pinnatipartite, segments pinatifid or toothed, 
heads many-fld. 1—1 in. diam. broadly cupular suberect in short leafy panicled 
racemes, invol. bracts pubescent broad green with rather narrow and brown 
scarious margins, DC. Prodr. vi. 120. 
Western Teer; Milam (N. of Kumaon), alt. 11,500 ft., and Topidunga, alt. 
