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COMPOSITE. (COMPOSITE FAMILY.) 
the divisiotis thread-form, spreading; heads small, the racemes in a 
wand-like elongated panicle. — Sandy soil, coast of New Hampshire to 
New Jersey; and again in the Western Slates. (2) — Plant 2°-2> 
high. 
§ 2. Abrotanum, Tourn. — Receptacle smooth : flowers all fertile, the 
marginal ones pistillate. 
d. A. Lilldoviciana, Nutt. (Western Mcgwort.) Whiten - 
ed-woolly throughout, branched; leaves lanceolate, the lower mostly 
cut-toothed or sparingly pinnatifid, the upper entire , the upper surface 
often becoming naked and smooth with age; heads ovoid, mostly 
sessile, disposed in narroio leafy panicles. ]|. — Dry banks, Lakes 
Huron and Michigan and westward, especially the var. gnaphalOdes, 
w ic i las the elongated nearly entire leaves very woolly both sides. 
L A. vulgaris, L. (Common Mugwort.) Branches and 
ower surface of the leaves whitish-woolly ; stem-leaves pinnatifid , with 
t le o es variously cut or entire, linear-lanceolate ; heads ovoid, in open 
* a fy panicles, Waste places, introduced from Europe into the 
Eastern States. 
5. A. biennis, Willd. (Biennial Wormwood.) Smooth, sim- 
p e , ower eaves 2-pinnately parted, the upper pinnatifid; lobes linear, 
. . e £ ,n 1 e ower leaves cut-toothed ; heads in short axillary spikes 
H* IC , are . Cr ^ ded * n a nar row and clustered leafy panicle. @ —* 
River-banks, Ohio and westward, indigenous. 
§ bsinthium, Tourn. — Receptacle hairy : flowers all fertile, the 
, marginal ones pistillate. 
shniKL * ii L. (Common Wormwood.) Rather 
olat J |L S1 0ar ^» leaves 2 - 3-pinnately parted ; the lobes lance- 
„:j ’ ° USe, .°^ en CUt ’ ^eads panicled racemes, nodding. — Road- 
«>des, sparingly naturalized, escaped from gardens. 
Pyr£thb TAN ^ OUTHERN ' wo °i>), is found in gardens. 
«££ZVZ VM ’ L - (Fivek " w )> * 5 * *<>■» 
SuMrib 0 5. GNAPHALtNEiE. —Pappus of capi.lary or 
,h f n8 | t 6 !' Anthers Wlth at the base. Heads all discoid, 
the fertile flowers with thread-shaped corollas. - Floccose-woolly 
herbs ; the leaves alternate. 
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Heads 
^^APHALIUm, L. Cudweed. 
it a many ‘ floW€red i the flowers all tubular ; the outer pistil- 
a e an \ ery slender, the central perfect. Scales of the involucre 
> n scanous, white or colored, imbricated in several row6. 
cep ac e t at, naked. Pappus a single row of capillary rough 
