350 POPULAR FIELD BOTANY. 
ARTEMISIA VULGARIS. Mygwort. Very common in 
hedges and waste places, growing three or four feet high, 
leaves divided, and very white underneath with down. 
Flowers brown, and in a long spike. A. campestris is the 
species so common in cottage gardens, and known by the 
name of Southern-wood, or Lad’s love; it is found wild, 
but very seldom. 
SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. 
COROLLIFLOR&®. ASTERACE. 
ERIGERON. (FLEA-BANE.) 
Generic Character. nvolucre with many long narrow scales. 
The ray with numerous little, very narrow flowers or florets. 
Centre of a different colour to the ray. 
Erierron acris. Blue HMea-bane. A curious little 
plant, found on dry ground and walls. It will be known by 
its numerous feathery seeds, which have the feather or 
pappus very long and tawny-coloured, so that after the 
flower is past the seeds look lke little bunches of down. 
The flower has the centre yellow, and the ray purplish. It 
grows about a foot or so high, leaves long and narrow, and 
