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 with the leaves on long stalks. Plowering-stems prostrate, becoming 

 more and more upright as they come into flower, 1 to 2 feet long, 

 much more slender and rigid than in the preceding species. An- 

 tliodes -J- inch across. Florets yellow, the involucre often purple. 

 Achenes oblong, glabrous. Plant dark-green, at length glabrous, 

 not aromatic. 



Field Southernwood. 



Fi'euch, Armoise des Champs. German, Feld Be.ifuss. 



This plant is destitute of the pleasant scent of the S<>utherowoofl of our gardens 

 — the " old man" of our childhood — though it belongs to the same family. Tlie real 

 Southernwood is a native of Southern Europe and Asia. It was known to the Greeks, 

 and was called Abrotonon by them. Its botanical name is Artemisia Abrotaniim. 

 It is a very old favourite in gardens, and is mentioned by Turner and Gerarde as 

 being cultivated in almost every English garden in their time. 



Section IV.-SERIPIIIDIUM. Bess. 



Anthodes homogamous ; florets all perfect. Stigmas enlarged 

 into a ciliated disk at the summit. Clinanth glabrous. 



SPECIES IV.— A RTEMISIA MARITIMA. Linn. 

 Platbs DCCXXXIV. DCCXXXV. 



Stem herbaceous, erect, paniculately branched. Leaves not 

 punctate, more or less cottony on both sides, the lower ones stalked, 

 bipinnate, with the ultimate segments linear, blunt, not apiculate. 

 Anthodes numerous, 3- to 5- flowered, erect or drooping, sessile, in 

 ratlier dense spikes arranged in a leafy panicle with the branches 

 drooping or erect. Pericline oblong-ovoid ; phyllaries unequal, 

 more or less cottony on the back, scarious at the edges. Plorcts 

 all perfect. Clinanth glabrous. 



Var. a, genuina. 



Plate DCCXXXIV. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. MXXXIX. Fig. 1. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1008. 



A. maritima, Sm. Eng. Hot. No. 170G. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. EI. p. 13.1. 



Reich. 1. c, p. 75. 

 A. maritima et A. salina, Willd. D. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 103. 



Branches of the panicle spreading, drooping at the apex. 

 Anthodes erect or drooping. 



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