Artemisia. — Cotula. 1013 
M. ma. D.1. D.i. D. a. sept. A characteristic plant in deep — 
sand and on stony ground. 
Local name: ghobeyra; generally: shih. 
Also known from Spain and the other parts of North Africa and Orient. 
1403. (3.) Artemisia judaica L. Mant. (1771), p. 281. — Boiss. 
Flor. Or. III, p. 381. — Del. Ulustr. Flor. d’Eg., tab. 45. — Aschers.- 
~ Schweinf. Ill: Flor. d’Kg., p.91 no.578. — A shrubby plant, 50 to 
70 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more, tomentellous-canescent, 
branching into a spreading, compound, pyramidal panicle. Leaves 
serile branches petioled or sessile, obovate-cuneate, 1—2-pinnatifid 
or parted, primary segments parted into 3—7, ovate-oblong to 
oblong, entire or obtusely-toothed lobes, leaves of the flowering 
branches minute, clustered. Heads hemispherical, 3 mm_ broad, 
nearly sessile, in dense racemes along the branches of the panicle; 
scales of the involucre ovate. — Flow. December to March. 
D.1. D.i. D. a. sept. One of the commonest plants of the 
deserts and Wadies. 
Local name: ba cytheran. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea. 
1404. (4.) Artemisia arborescens L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), 
p. 1180. — Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 372. — Rehbch. Ic. XVI, tab. 138 
fig. II. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg. p.81. — Sibth. and 
Smith Flor. graec., tab. 1856. — Artemisia argentea DC. Prodrom. VII, 
p. 298. — A shrubby plant, 50 cm to 1m high, or sometimes 
somewhat more, silky-canescent; stems erect, shrubby, ending in a 
narrow panicle. Leaves broad-ovate in outline, 2—3-pinnatipartite 
into linear lobes. Racemes loose, one-sided; heads 5 mm broad, 
globular; pedicels as long as the heads or shorter, scales of the 
involucre obtuse, the outer ones oblong, the inner ones ovate. — 
Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. M. p. N. d. Often cultivated in the old Arabian gardens 
and sometimes naturalized. 
Local. name: sheba. 
Also known from Spain, France, Greece, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania 
and Palestine. 
585. (45.) Cotula Linn. 
Involucre hemispherical or campanulate, with few nearly equal 
bracts, in about 2 rows. Receptacle flat, convex or conical, without 
scales. Flowers of the circumference in 1 or several rows, female, 
without any or with a short broad or conical corolla. Disk-florets 
