N. ORD.—COMPOSITA. 
Tribe.—SENECIONIDEA. 
GENUS.—ARTEMISIA. 
SEX. SYST.—SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
ARTEMISIA VULGARIS. 
MUGWORT. 
SYN.—ARTEMISIA VULGARIS, LINN.; A. HETEROPHYLLUS, NUTT.; A. 
INDICA CANADENSIS. BESS. ‘ 
ee (FR.) COURONNE DE ST. JEAN; (GER.) BI- 
A TINCTURE OF THE ROOT OF ARTEMISIA VULGARIS, LINN. 
Description.—This perennial herb grows to a height of from 2 to 3 feet. 
Stem erect, furrowed, paniculately branched. eaves mostly glabrous and green 
above, white-woolly beneath and on the branches, the lower laciniate, the median 
pinnatifid, the upper lanceolate to linear; divisions often cut-lobed or linear- 
lanceolate. Jnflorescence glomerate, in open, leafy panicles; /eads numerous, 
small, ovoid, heterogamous; flowers all fertile; involucre mostly oblong, cam- 
panulate; éracts scarious, sparingly arachnoid, but mostly glabrate. Corolla 
smooth. Receptacle naked. Otherwise agreeing in minuti of florets and sexual 
organs with the following species, p. 88. 
_The Common Mugwort is an immigrant from Europe 
dered apparently indigenous at Hudson's 
Canada and the Atlantic States, where it 
and waste places, and flowers from 
History and Habitat. 
in most of its situations here, but is consi 
Bay by Prof. Gray. It is naturalized in 
frequents old fields and gardens, roadsides, 
September till October. 
Hippocrates very freque 
ine evacuations. Dioscorides and Galen u 
and hysteria—a practice then in vogue among the hpetae of ane : = 
physicians have urged the drug in epilepsy, but it has nevertheless allen entirely 
into disrepute, being now very seldom, if ever, used in any disease. see Ds 
That torturous, barbaric practice, the use of the Moxa, is ee y relate iy 
this plant, as it was one of the substances, in connection with A. Chinensis, use 
in the manufacture of that pastile. 
The Mexican Pharmacopeeia 1s no 
drug. 
ntly mentions Artemisia as of use in promoting uter- 
| sed it as a fomentation for amenorrhea 
the only one recognizing this 
w, we believe,. 
