ARTEMISIA. 
up fat hollow stems half a foot to 18 inches high (often with only one 
flower-head), hairy all the way up, and leafy with oval leaves, which 
embrace the stem and overflow on the other side into short wings, 
‘while the upper ones sit tight to the stalk and are heart-shaped oval. 
The lower basal leaves are on long stalks, large, lax, and in shape like 
a heart with lobes flattened across, all the leaves both above and 
below being wavy with irregular toothing. The flowers are very 
large, about 2 or 3 inches across, and, like those of the others, brilliant 
golden-yellow. Apart from the limp and slack-textured Doronicoid 
appearance of all these plants, they would really be gladly accepted for 
the high-alpines they certainly are, although they do not look it. In 
culture they offer no more difficulty than Doronicum, and appreciate 
deep cool and stony ground in sun. 
Artemisia.—The huge family of the Wormwoods is essentially 
addicted to low places, deserts, woody wastes and hedgerows, offering, 
in its usual style, nothing for the rock-garden except tall A. lactiflora, 
if room can be found for it in some deep remote corner of the wilder 
parts, where its fine dark-feathered foliage, white beneath, will fill the 
summer, and its heavy spraying plumes of silver-whiteness glorify 
the autumn. But the family in the course of its roamings wanders 
high upon the mountains, and has there developed a most lovely and 
complicated race of quite dwarf silvery tuffets of aromatic foliage most 
ferny and beautiful, though true it is that the flower-spikes or heads do 
not amount to much ; none the less the white or frosted-looking fine 
ferniness of the alpine Wormwoods is of unequalled charm and value in 
the rock-garden, most especially in the moraine, where their exquisite 
silveriness looks especially in place upon the grey chips, and acts as a 
perfect foil to the pink of Dianthus alpinus, or the rich purple of 
Viola Dubyana. In such conditions all are of the same perfect ease 
of culture and permanence, needing only to be divided when a given tuft 
has grown too large for its own safety. As for the flower-spikes, they 
may as well in most cases be nipped off, for it is but rarely that they 
add to the lovely charm of the mass, and they are certainly not wanted 
unless to help in identifying the species. As all the following are mat- 
forming, carpet-forming silvery or woolly-leaved dwarfs, all requiring 
the same stony conditions in the same soil or the lack of it, there is no 
need to worry the reader with specific descriptions, except in the case 
of those species from the European Alps, which it may prove helpful 
to be able to distinguish. 
A. assoana: is very beautiful and silvery. A creeping branching 
thing from high sandy places in the limestone mountains of South- 
east and Central Spain, forming compact tufts of densely silky little 
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