408 SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Artemisia. 



3. A. gallica. Upright-flowered Sea Wormwood. 



Leaves downy, pinnatifid ; radical ones capillary ; upper- 

 most undivided. Flowers erect, oblong, downy, partly 

 stalked, of few florets. Receptacle naked. 



A. gallica. Willd. Sp. PL v. 3. 1834. Comp. cdA. 135. Engl. Bot. 

 V. 24. p. 1 706, at the bottom. Hook. Scot. 239 ; in the quotation, 

 for drooping read erect. 



A. maritima. Engl. Bot. v. \4. t. \00\. FLBr.S6i,y. 



Absinthium seriphium tenuifolium marinum narbonense. Dill, in 

 Rail Syn. 1 89. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. \. 177. f. 



About the banks of large rivers near the sea, in a muddy soil. 



Perennial. August. 



This has much of the habit of the preceding, and like that varies in 

 the degree of hoariness, and in the breadth of its foliage ; but the 

 radical leaves are usually more narrow, almost capillary -, and 

 when in bloom the two species differ conspicuously, the Jlowers 

 of the present being more abundant and crowded, partially 

 stalked, and all of them upright. In their sensible qualities 

 there seems little difference. 



4. K, Ahshithium, Common Wormwood. 



Leaves in many deep segments, clothed with close silky 

 down. Flowers drooping, hemispherical. Receptacle 

 hairy. 



A. Absinthium. Lmw. %PZ. 1 188. Willd.v.3.\^\\. Ft. Br.S64. 



Engl. Bot. V. 18. t. 1230. Woodv. t. 120. Hook. Scot. 239. 

 Apsinthium n, 1 24. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 53. 

 Absinthium. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 47./. Camer. Epit. 452. f. Trag. 



Hist. 335. f. 

 A, vulgare. RaiiSyn.\SS, Dalec/i, Hist. 943. f. Fuclis. Hist.l.f. 



lc.2.f. 

 A. latifolium sive ponticum. Ger. Em. 1096./. 

 A^z/ySiOv. Diosc.Ic. t. 16. 

 Common Wormwood. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 20. f. 1 , 



In waste ground, and about villages frequent. 



Perennial. August. 



Root woody, branched at the crown, with numerous fibres below. 

 Whole herb covered with close silky hoariness, intensely bitter, 

 to a proverb, with a peculiar, strong, aromatic, not disagreeable 

 odour. Stems numerous, bushy, about a foot high, furrowed, 

 leafy. Leaves alternate, doubly pinnatifid, with broadish, blunt- 

 ish, entire segments, rather greener on the upper side ; lower 

 ones on \on^ footstalks ; upper on shorter, broader, somewhat 

 winged ones. Fl. in aggregate leafy clusters, stalked, droop- 

 ing, hemispherical, of numerous, p;ilc yellow, or hui\', ^florets. 



