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ARTEMISIA MARITIMA. 



WORMWOOD 



STNONTMA. Abfinthium maritlmiim. Fhann, Lend. Abfm- 



thium ferlpliium Belgicum. 



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Fin, p, 139 



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kHlft. 



Ill 



188. Abrmthium feripbium five marinum Angllcum. Fiwh 



TheaL 



102. Abrmthmm. marinum albiim_. 



Gerard. Eniac. p. 



1099 

 359- 



Rail Hlft. p. 370. Synop. p. 189. ^ Hudf. FJor. Ang, p 



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. Bot. Arrang. p. 890, 



Cdafs Syngenefia. Ord. Polygamia SuperHua. Lin. Gen. Plant. 945. 



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EJf* Gen. Ch. Recept. fubvillofiim vel nudlufculum. Pappus nullus. 



CaJ. imbricatus, fquamls rotundatis, conniv^ntibus. 



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radii nullae. 



C 



or. 



Sp. C/j. 



A. foliis 



n • 



multipartitis 



tomentoiis racemis cernuis flofculis 



femineis ternis. 



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THE root IS perenmal, fpreading, and fibrous 



the Hems are 



procumbent, branched, about a foot in height, and covered with a 

 white down or cotton : the leaves are numerous, irregularly divided 

 into many fegments, which are narrow, linear, and covered both 

 above and below with a fine cotton-like fiibftance, giving the whole 

 plant a whitifli appearance : the flowers are of a brownifh yellow colour, 

 and placed in pendent fpikes : the calyx is compofed of many roundifli 

 fcales : three florets at the circumference are female, the others are her- 

 maphrodite, and both in their fl:rud:ure refem.ble thofe of abfinthium. 

 It is a native of Britain, growing plentifully on the fea fhore, and about 

 fait marfhes, and flowers in AugufI; and September, 



This plant feems to have been formerly confounded with the A. 

 pontica, or Roman Wormwood, as appears by Raynaud Dale;'' their 



Abfinthii fpeciem Londlni & alibi in Anglia coli rolitam nomine Abfinthii Romani, 

 jion aiiter ab hoc differre putamus quam cultura & loco natali." &c. Hi/I* p* 370. 



Speaking of this plant, he fays, " Muligrculse Botanopolse Londinenfes Ablinthlum 



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h 



fpecifi 



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b 



.lomaaum yocant.'^^ ^harriu p* 99. 



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