68 SWISS FLOWERS. 



(Fig, 49) may be recognised by the dark scales of the 

 inner florets, which give it the appearance of being 

 dotted with black and white, the black prevailing. The 

 flowers are in a compact corymb, with very hairy, downy, 

 short stalks. The whole plant is four or five inches high, 

 of a greyish colour, with pinnatifid leaves, all covered with 

 soft down. High granite-mountains, near the snow : Valley 

 of Saas, Great St. Bernard, Engadine, RifFel, Mont Cenis. 



50. Artemisia. 



(PLATE XXIX.) 



Found in near neighbourhood with the last-mentioned 

 plant is another of the pretty downy-leaved ornaments of 

 ^he mountains ; but A. glacialis (Fig. 50) has smaller and 

 more thread-like leaves, which grow in a much-divided and 

 palmate form, reminding one, though the plant is very 

 much smaller, of two other members of its family, both 

 very common in cottage gardens in England : Southern- 

 wood (A. Abrotanum), the favourite scent-giving plant of 

 the village, and A. Absinthium, Wormwood, unhappily so 

 much in request for making the dangerous absinthe. The 

 flower of A. glacialis is small, at least in some of the 

 varieties, bright yellow in colour, and in the form of a 



