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ARTEMISIA VULGARIS. MUG-WORT. 
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SYNONYMA. Artemisia.t Pharm. Edinb. Artemisia vulgaris 
major. Bauh. Pin. p. 137. Artemisia mater herbarum. Gerard. 
Emac. p. 1103. Artemisia foliis pinnatis inferne tomentosis, 
pinnis acute dentatis, spica paniculata erecta. Hal. Stirp. Helv. 
mn. 130. Artemisia vulgaris. J. Bauh. Hist. iii. p. 184. Park. 
heat, p. 90. Raii. Hist. p. 372. Synop. p. 190. Huds. Flor. 
Ang. p. 359. Withering Bot. Arrang. p. 891. Smith Flor. 
Brit. 865. : 
Sp. Ch. A. foliis pinnatifidis planis incisis subtus tomentosis, racemis 
simplicibus recurvatis, floribus radio quinquefloro. 
THE root is perennial, composed of numerous strong fibres: 
the stalk is erect, branched, angular, striated, reddish, and usually 
rises two or three feet in height: the leaves are irregularly and 
deeply divided into several lacinie or lobes, which are oval, pointed, 
on the upper side of a deep green colour, on the under downy, or 
covered with a cotton-like substance: the flowers are small, purplish, 
and-produced in spikes, which stand alternately, and rise from the 
bottom of the leaves: the calyx is composed of several narrow scales, 
which are purplish, woolly, and placed in an imbricated order: the 
florets are longer than the calyx, stand upon a naked receptacle, and 
appear in August: the five florets of the circumference are female ; 
those of the centre are hermaphrodite, and both agree in their 
structure with those of the other species already described. 
Muewort is a native of Britain, and is commonly found growing 
in waste grounds, and the borders of fields. It is divided into red 
+ “ Artemisia dicta, ab Artemisia Mausoli Carie regis uxore, que hanc sibi, 
ut loquitur Plinius 7. 25. c. 7. p. 636. adoptavit, cum antea wagbes 1. e. virginalis, 
quod virgo dea illi nomen dederit, vocaretur. Sunt qui ab Artemide Iithia cog- 
nominatam putent; quoniam privatim feminarum malis, quibus Agrsus i.e. Diana 
preest, medeatur.” C. Bauh. 1. c. 
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