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: Absinthe. 4 
q A. absinthium L. ? A somewhat shrubby perennial with usually [ 
mmerous stems 50-100 om. tall, more or less canescent with fine appressed nage 
hairs; leaves broadly ovate in outline, twice or thrice dissected into linear@ =/ 4 
lanceolate lobes 1-3 mm. broad, mostly obtuse, more or less canescent on q 
surfaces, especially beneath; heads numerous in campound panicles; bracts of 
the involucre in usually 4 series, the outermost subulate, the inner broadly 
oval, with broad scarious margins, thinly pmbescent, the receptacles hairy; ; 
flowers nwmerous, crowded, yellow. : 
Frequent in waste places and along roadways in dry situations at low 
elevations. 
Ae Douglasiana Besser (Ae heterophylla utes) ) 
) A. vulgaris Le —-_———-> Perennial herbs with r 
& variable in habit, the stems 20-100 cm. tall, nsuniiy wn tinineaee - 
times becoming glabrous; leaves of great variability, entire and silipts al 
or lanceolate, 5-8 om. long, 5-20 mm. broad, or pinnatifid, more or le ee 
ovate or obovate or oblanceolate in outline, 3-10 om. long, the lobes 
: spreading, 1-10 mm. broad, or sometimes merely toothed, both surfaces usual] 
@ woolly or cobwebby; the upper sometimes becaning glabrous; heads crowded teks 
narrow usually leafy panicles 15-30 om. long; 3-4.5 mm. in diameter. : 
) ; - eee subsvecies 
requent in restricted dry situations where plants from the sage 
regions sometimes penetrate. Our plants comprise chiefly 3 £« 7. 
aS with leaves usually obovate in outline, 2=5 cme wide 
a 
with spreading lobes} one known as A. gnaphalodes Nutt. 
elliptical or lanceolate leaves .5-2 cm. wide, which ie tae 
surfaces} and A. lu¢oviciana Nutt. in which the leaves are linear or linear=> 
oblanceolate, .5-2 ‘com. wide with leaves mostly cut into linear-lanceolate a 
spreading lobes, usually gray and woolly on both surfaces. } 
= £8.06 2 
