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ARTEMISIA ABROTANUM. COMMON SOUTHERNWOOD 



STNONTMA, Abrotanum. Pharm. Lond, & Edinb. Abrota 



num. mas anguftifolium majus. Baub, Pin. p, 136. Tourn. Injl, 



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, 459. Dubarnel, Arh» u p, 20. t, 4. Abrotanum mas vulgare* 

 Park. 'Theat. /. 92. Abrotanum mas. Gerard. Emac. p. 11 05* 

 Rati Hifl. p. 371. Dodon. Pempt. p. 21. 



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'^ A. caule ere&o. 



^ A, humilts foliis fetaceis pmnatifidisj caule decumbente fuf- 



fruticofo. Mill, T>i6i. 



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Syngenefia. Ord. Polygamia Superflua, Lin. Gen. Plant. 945. 



JE)^ Gen. Ch. Recept. fubvillofum vel nudiufculum. Pappus n'ullus. 



Cal. imbricatus, fquamis rotundatis, conniventibus. Cor. 

 radii nullce, v 



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Sj). Ch, A. fruticofa, foliis fetaceis ramofiflimis. 



THE root is perennial, woody, and fibrous : the ftalk is fhrubby, 

 round, covered with fmooth brown bark, fends off vertical branches, 

 and rifes two or three feet in height : the leaves are numerous, fome- 

 what hoary, doubly and irregularly pinnated ; 'pinnas, linear, long, 

 narrow, entire, concave on the upper fide, convex beneath, and ftand 

 upon long footftalks, which are alfo of this fhape : the flowers are 

 fmall, of a greenifh yellow colour, and placed in clofe terminal fpikes 

 upon the branches : the calyx is imbricated, confifting of feveral mem- 

 branous fcales : the flowers are compound^ compofed of numerous 

 florets; thofe in the centre^ or difc^ are hermaphrodite-, but in the margin 

 they are female : the corolla is tubular, and extremely minute : the 

 filaments are five, fhort, and flender: the antherse are united, and 

 form a hollow cylinder : the flyle is longer than the flamina, and 

 furnifhed with a cleft refieded ftigma : the feeds are naked and 



folitary. 



Southernwood 



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