328 LXXVII. COMPOSITÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Artemisia. 
suberect. Leaves very finely cut, sessile or petioled. Heads numerous, yellow, 
usually rather distant; receptacle very obscurely pubescent ; corolla of $ very short, 
almost eupular, glabrous or pubescent.—Placed in the section Absinthium by Boissier 
and Clarke, but it is most closely allied to 4. Falconeri, and the pubescence of the 
receptacle is totally different from the long hairs of the Absinthiu section. 
22. A. Falconeri, Clarke mss; hoary tomentose, stem woody and 
branched below, branches slender strict erect c e leaves small broad short 
lower 2-pinnatisect floral and upper pinnatifid equally tomentose on both surfaces, 
segments small subacute pointing upwards, heads 1 in. diam. hemispheric 
pedicelled nodding forming a simple terminal secund leafy raceme, invol. bracts 
tomentose, outer linear green, inner oblong obtuse tomentose green, innermost 
scarious, receptacle small convex. 
Western Trser; Falconer. 
A foot high, branches very slender but stiff, not grooved. Leaves i-] in. long, 
and as broad, radical and lower cauline with slender petioles ; upper cauline, sessile ; 
segments linear or narrowly lanceolate. „Heads in perfectly simple secund strict 
erect racemes terminating the erect branches.—I have seen no specimens but 3 of 
Falconer’s, and I have hence no idea how much this species may vary; its very 
slender, simple, erect branches and racemes are unlike any other, but it may be a 
contracted form of A. Moorcroftiana. 
23. A. Stracheyi, Hook f. § T.; Clarke Comp. Ind. 164; dwarf, softly 
villously tomentose, branches annual simple strict erect very stout from a very 
large woody branched many-headed rootstock, leaves 3-6 in. linear-oblong 
2-pinnatisect subsilkily villous on both surfaces, segments close-set short linear 
or lanceolate subacute, heads 4 in. diam. broadly hemispheric shortly pedi- 
celled nodding forming a simple terminal secund stout leafless raceme, invol. 
bracts numerous obovate tomentose with broad brown scarious margins, recep- 
tacle broad, corolla densely villous. 
Western Tiser; Manasarowar Lake, alt. 15,000 ft., Strach. & Winterb. ; Lanak 
Pass and Valley above Pugha, alt. 15-17,000 ft., Thomson; Rupehu, Heyde. 
A very remarkable species, with the heads of a Tanacetum, but racemed like the 
Abrotanoid Absinthia. Root woody, a foot long; rootstock of numerous short 
branches as thick as the finger, clothed with sheathing bases of old petioles. Achenes 
35 in. long, cuneiform, compressed, unlike those of most Artemisia, 
Spot, IV. Absinthium. Heads heterogamous; ray-fl, 9, disk-fl. 8, 
both fertile; receptacle covered with long hairs. 
* Perennials. 
24, A. A bsinthium, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 373 ; perennial, hoary- 
pubescent, stems erect angular and ribbed, leaves ovate or obovate un er, 3 
2-3-pinnatifidly cut into spreading linear or lanceolate obtuse segments hoary 
on both surfaces, radical and lower cauline narrowed into winged petioles, heads 
3-4 in. diam. pedicelled hemispheric in drooping secund racemes terminating 
the branches, outer invol. bracts oblong hoary narrowly scarious, inner orbicular 
broadly scarious, receptacular hairs long straight. DC. Prodr. vi.125. Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 104; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1029. Absinthium vulgare, Gertn. 
Fruct. ii. t. 164. 
Kasumir; alt. 5-7000 ft., Thomson, Falconer, &c.—DrsrRIs. N, Asia, Affghanistan 
and westward to the Atlantic. 
Very aromatic, almost silkily hoary, stem 1-3 ft. Leaves 1-2 in. Heads numerous, 
but hardly crowded ; fl. yellow ; ray-corolla dilated below; anthers acuminate (not 
aristate). Achenes elliptic-oblong or somewhat obovoid, A in. long. 
