864 
Plants of the Punjab. 
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Herss, Error, with ALTERNATE EXXstTIPULATE LOBED LEAVES. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS, MINUTE, IN HEADS, ALL TUBULAR. 
Artemisia scoparia, 
Pila-jau, 
churt saroj, dant. 
Composit». 
BSB. i am."525. 
The Plains to 
7,000 ft. 
Valleys below Simla 
(Collett). 
Rawalpindi 
(Douie). 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
Artemisia annua, 
CompositT#. 
F, B. I. iii. 328. 
N.-W. F. Province 
5-5,000 ft. 
(Stewart). 
Artemisia maritima, 
Worm seed, 
or santonica, 
Shih, sariqun, 
afsantin-ul-bahr. 
Composit”. 
F. B. I. iii. 323. 
Himalaya, 
7-9,000 ft. ~ 
Kashmir. 
Baluchistan | 
(Lace). 
medium size, annual, rootstock often perennial, smooth 
below, green and slightly hairy above, branches many, 
slender, faintly scented, leaves radical 1-3 in. long, stalked, 
broadly ovate, much divided, segments linear, stem leaves 
thread-like, flowers very minute and numerous, nodding, 
sessile or on threadlike stalks in one-sided branched ra- 
cemes, bracts of heads oblong, glistening, blunt, thin with 
narrow green disks, achenes ;', in. long ; for other characters 
see the last species. This plant is used for its purgative 
action. 
medium size, annual, very slender, strongly scented, 
smooth, branches deeply grooved, leaves lower much di- 
vided, broad, 3 in. diam., segments toothed or lobulate, with 
stipule-like divided at the base of the stalk, heads 74-4, 
in. diam., nearly round in very slender one-sided branched 
drooping racemes, bracts of the heads smooth, inner 
circular, green, with thin margins, afterwards altogether 
papery, shining ; for other characters see the last species. 
medium size, perennial, shrubby below, much branch- 
ed, leaves 4-2 in., lower ovate, twice divided, segments 
small, spreading, linear, blunt, stalks slender, upper leaves 
undivided, linear, heads 3-8-flowered, ovoid or oblong, 
erect, often reddish, crowded in spiked tufts, bracts of 
heads linear-oblong, outer green felted, inner thin, short- 
pointed, smooth ; for other characters see the last species. 
The flower heads are used as anthelmintics. Santonin, 
which is much used in European medicine, is obtained 
from these flower heads. 
