408 SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Artemisia. 



often reddish, near 2 feet high. Leaves irregularly and doubly 

 pinnatifidj with narrow, linear, blunt segments ; clothed beneath 

 with close silvery hairs ; smooth above ; the radical ones nume- 

 rous the first year, on long footstalks, spreading close to the 

 ground. Fl. drooping, small, ovate, yellow, with a pur|)lish 

 calyx, forming numerous, slender, leafy clusters, at the ends of 

 the stem and branches. Cahjx-scales roundish, with a broad, 

 membranous, shining, jagged margin. Reccpt. small, naked. 

 Florets of the disk about 1 5, tipped with purple ; of the circum- 

 ference 2 or 3, awl-shaped, entire, yellow. 



2. A. ?Jiaritif?ia. Drooping Sea Wormwood. 



Leaves downy, pinnatifid ; uppermost undivided. Flowers 

 drooping, oblong, downy, sessile. Receptacle naked. 



A. maritima. Linn. Sp. PL 11 86. IFilld.v. 3. 1833. Fl. Br.864, 

 aand(3.Co>np.ecL4.V3b. Engl. Bot. v. 24. t. \706. Huds.ooS. 

 Hook: Scot. 239. IFoodv. t. 122. Ehrh. PI. Off. 90. 



Absinthium marinum album. Raii Sijn. ed. 2. 94. ed. 3. 1 88. Ger. 

 Em. 1099./. 



A. marinum. Matth. Falgr.v. 2. 48./. ? Canier. Epit. 455./. 



A. maritimum nostras. Dill, in Raii Syn. 189. Raii Hist. v. 3. 231 . 



jS. A. maritimum, Seriphio Belgico simile, latiore folio, odoris 

 grati. Raii Syn. ed. 2. 94. ed. 3. 188. 



French Sea Wormwood. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 20./. 3. Dill. 



y. Absinthii maritimi species, latiore folio. Raii Syn. ed. 2. 94. 

 ed. 3. 189. 



On the sea shore, or about the mouths of large rivers^ in a muddy 

 soil, frequent. 



Perennial. August. 



Root rather woody. Herb hoary with fine white cottony down, 

 having a more agreeably aromatic resinous odour, and less bitter 

 taste, than Common VVormwood. Stems erect or recumbent, 

 woody, furrowed, solid, copiously and alternately branched, 

 densely leafy. Leaves pinnatifid with 3-cleft segments, various 

 in breadth and hoariness ; the upper ones linear, undivided. Fl. 

 in unilateral leafy clusters, all nearly sessile, drooping or pen- 

 dulous, externally cottony, ovate-oblong, not hemispherical. 

 Inner scales of the calyx almost naked, with a broad membra- 

 nous edge. Florets tawny j those of the circumference very 

 few. Recept. naked, small. 



iOur variety y, found by Dale, was suspected by Ray himself to be 

 either the same with" /3, or with the following species j so that it 

 appears to have been, at any rate, very little known, and hardly 

 entitled to rank even as a variety. 



