52 ORD. III. Composite. 
ARTEMISIA ABROTANUM. | COMMON SOUTHERNWOOD. 
a “2 em 
SYNONYMA. Abrotanum. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb.  Abrota- 
num masangustifolium majus. Bauh. Pin. p.136. Touwin. Inst. 
p. 459. Duhamel, Arb. i. p. 20. t. 4. Abrotanum mas vulgare. 
Park. Theat. p. 92. Abrotanum mas. Gerard. Emac. p. 1105, 
Raii Hist. p. 371. Dodon. Pempt. p.21. Vide Allion. Ped. 605. 
Krock. Siles.. n. ¥364. 
"w A. caule erecto. 
6 A. humilis foliis setaceis pinnatifidis, caule decumbente suf- 
fruticoso. Mill. Dict. 
Class Syngenesia. Ord. Polygamia Superflua. Lin. Gen. Plant. 945. 
Ess, Gen. Ch. Recept. subvillosum vel nudiusculum. Pappus nullus. 
Cal. imbricatus, squamis rotundatis, conniventibus, Cor. 
‘radii nulle. 
Sp. Ch, A. fruticosa, foliis setaceis-ramosissimis. 
THE root is perennial, woody, and. fibrous: the stalk is shrubby, 
round, covered with smooth brown bark, sends off vertical branches, 
and rises two or three feet in height: the leaves are numerous, 
somewhat hoary, doubly and irregularly pinnated ; .pinne linear, 
long, narrow, entire, concave on the upper side, convex beneath, 
and stand upon long footstalks, which are also of this shape: the 
flowers are small, of a greenish yellow colour, and placed. in close 
‘terminal spikes upon the branches: the calyx is imbricated, con- 
sisting. of several membranous scales: the flowers are compound, 
composed of numerous florets; those in the centre, or disc, are 
hermaphrodite ; but in the margin they are female: the corolla is 
tubular, and extremely minute: the filaments are five, short, and 
slender: the anthers are united, and form a hollow cylinder: the 
