ARTEMISIA. 
the European Alps. It may easily be known by its especially 
beautiful leafage, which is very long and fine, cut into the most 
delicately thread-like strips, and refulgently silvery, lying limply 
about in shocks upon the shingle. Its spikes, too, are quite distinct ; 
they are about 6 or 8 inches high, with a few filmy leaves here and 
there, finely slashed and on drawn-out stems of marked length. And 
the flower-heads are not carried in a cluster at the top, nor in the 
spike all the way up, but in a series of small bunches, here and there 
on the stems. Towards their apex the inner base of the cwp is markedly 
full of fluff. (Great elevations in all the main ranges, more especi- 
ally on granite.) 
A. nana is an impostor in this section of dwarfs. Its name leads 
one to believe it the dwarfest of all, whereas in point of fact it is a 
comparatively large and coarse species, sending up loose weedy- 
looking spires of scattered reddish flower-heads, held erect in little 
clusters, on stems of 7 or 8 inches. The leaves, too, though very finely 
cut indeed, are wholly green and nearly scentless, and rather suggest 
those of Caraway or Fennel. It is only quoted as a warning. 
A. nitida better deserves its name (it is also A. lanata, Koch). For 
this is another most lovely high-alpine, forming tufted mats, and 
closely allied to A. Mutellina. But here the leaves are much smaller, 
more compact, and not so lacy; they do not lie about, but tend to 
gather together and stand erect on their notably long foot-stalks (much 
more like tiny hands reaching aloft a number of delicate fingers). 
The whole plant is much tighter and tuftier in effect accordingly, and 
the stems are much slighter, with smaller, fewer leaflets sitting more 
closely to them, and they carry many more little bunches of flower- 
heads (which are smooth outside, not hairy or woolly), scattered loosely 
nearly all the way up, and with fewer flower-heads to a bunch, smaller, 
and inclined to droop a little instead of being erect asin A. Mutellina. 
(Screes and limestone cliffs of the Southern Alps and Tyrol.) Not far 
remote is A. norica, from the ranges of the Hohe Tauern. 
A. Parryi and A. Pattersonii are Americans from the high Alps of 
Colorado, of which A. Pattersonii is the whiter with tomentum, though 
tending to grow more naked as it gets on in months. 
A. pedatifida, from dry places in Wyoming, is a tightly-matted 
species, hoary with close down, and with foliage cleft once or twice 
into divisions, cut again into three narrow strips. The few-headed 
flower-spike is only about 3 inches high at the most, whereas in its 
silky compatriot, A. scopulorum, they rise from 4 to 8 inches. 
A. pedemontana (A. lanata, Willd.), another important European 
species, is very near to A. caucasica and A. Genipi, and is almost a 
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