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ellipsoid or sub-obovoid, faintly striate; pappus none. — Disteib. About 

 240 species in the north temperate regions mostly of the Old World. 



Abtemisia vulgaris, Linn. Sp. PI. 848. A small shrub ; stems as 

 thick as a goose-quill, brown when dry, sub-glaucous and with sparse 

 white pubescence. Leaves membranous, varying much in shape and 

 size, those near the base several inches long, large pinnatipartite or 

 bi-pinnatipartite, the pinnules oblong, the ultimate lobes entire wath 

 sub-aristate apices, leaves of the stem diminishing in size upwards, 

 laciniate, and passing near the apex into simple linear bracts less than 

 •5 in. long ; all glabrous on the upper surface and white adpressed- 

 pubescent on the lower. Heads about "15 in. long, cylindric or narrowly 

 campanulate, sessile, solitary or in small clusters, in axillary sub-secund 

 spikes of varying length, the upper part of the stem forming a long 

 spike. Involucral bracts only 5 or 6, broadly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 

 the inner scarious. Corollas glabrous. DC. Prod. V. 112 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient. III. 371 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 420 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 161 ; 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 325. A. indica, Willd. ; DC. I.e. 114; Eoxb. 

 Fl. Ind. III. 419 ; Wight Ic. 1112 ; Wall. Cat. 3293. A. diLbia, Wall. 

 Cat. 3307; DC. I.e. 110. A. myriantha, Wall. Cat. 3297; DC. I.e. 112. 

 A. paniculata, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 418. A. leptostachya, DC. i.e. 113. 

 A. grata, Wall. Cat. 3294 {in imrt) ; DC. I.e. 114. A. lavandidcefolia, 

 DC. I.e. 110. 



In all the provinces, near cultivation, not common and probably 

 introduced. — Distrib. Europe, Northern Asia, India, mountains of 

 the Malayan Archipelago. 



23. Crepis, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs, glabrous or hairy, hairs all simple. 

 Leaves alternate, radical or cauline, the latter often stem-clasping, 

 •entire toothed or pinnatifid. Heads pedunculate, solitary, fasciculate 

 or corymbose, yellow or red, homogamous, ligulate. hivolucre cylindric 

 or campanulate ; bracts either multi-seriate and regularly imbricate, or 

 the outer smaller and shorter than the single series of inner ; base 

 of midrib often thickened after flowering ; receptacle flat, rarely 

 concave, naked or shortly fimbrillate. Corollas ligulate, wdth broad 

 5-toothed apices. Antliers syngenesious, their bases sagittate, the 

 auricles acute or shortly setaceous. Cypselas more or less fusiform or 

 oblong, rarely short and cylindric, often slender, glabrous or scaberulous, 

 10- to 20-ribbed, the apex narrowed or beaked ; pappus usually 

 copious, short or long, the hairs simple, soft, usually silvery, rarely 

 brownish and stiff or brittle. — Distrib. Species about 10, chiefly in 

 the northern regions of the Old World. 



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