694 
SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. Artemisia. 
(2) Stems upright, herbaceous :: Leaves compound. 
Absin'thium. A. Leaves compound, many-cleft: flowers somewhat glo- 
y. 
4 
vulgaris. 
bular, pendent: receptacle woo 
Kniph. 4—-Ludw. 76-Woodv. 120-Blackaw. 17-Maith, 685~ 
Dod. 23-Lob. obs. 433. 25 and ic. i. 752. 1-Gers em. 
1096. 1—Park. 98. 1-H. ox. vi. 1. row 3. 1-Ger. 937. 
2-Trag. 335—Ger. 937. sek 20, 1-F: B. iii. a. 168 
Gmel. ii. Ae 
naceo 
Shas scored, whitish, with very short down. Leaves silky 
very soft ; segments blunt, am the lower on long flat onan 
Spikes upright. Flowers turned downwards. Leaves dark 
green on the upper, but ue on the under re * Biles. 
Pepenieh white. 
mavood Southernwooed. Wormwood. Road = ie 
places, foi on rubbish, 
A. Came wing-cleft, flat; cut, cottony underneath: 
bunches simple, bending: florets of the circum- 
ference 5. 
FI. dan. 1176—Ludaw. 153=Blackw. 431—Woodv. 121-H. om 
vi, le. row Gg, ge A 3-—Marsd. 848-—Dod. aoe 1-Lod. obs. 
* The leaves and flowers are very bitter ; the roots are warm and aro 
matic. A considerable qu weet bed essential ~ rises from it in distilla- 
tion, This oil is —_ both externally sat i internally to destroy worms. 
The leaves, put into sour i soon destroy the acescency. They resis sist 
Putrefaction, and are therefore a principal ys Se pe er antiseptic fomen- 
tations. An infusion of them is a'good stomachic, h the addition 
of fixed alkaline sala wertal diuretic in some eae cases. The 
ashes afford a more pure rye salt than most other vegetables, oir 
ing Bean-stalks, (ty the devin trees. In the Aman. Ac 
P I innzus mentions gts ses, wherein an essence prepared 
this plant, and taken fora cohiidatabla e time, prevented the tormé 
acids. It might be suspected that, like other bitters, its long 
s the action of the % sf 
Stances no suc 00 ce. An sion i. pe 
that suckles, makes her milk bitter. It gives a bitterness to the flesh of 
t t it.—Horses goats are not fo it; nd swine 
refuse it. Lr wr are fond of r. bol A orse eat 
a th plant mi a in boiling water, and repeatedly appli lied to a brutise, 
: 1 remove the pain in a short time, and prevent ie swelling and dis- 
pec i of the part. Sr, 
