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green, well worthy of a place, and to be employed in like 

 manner. N. America. 



* Artemisia anethifolia. A hardy perennial species 

 about 4 ft. high, with a simple round stem, woody at the 

 base, and branching vertically above, clothed from about 

 a foot above the ground with much-divided leaves, the 

 segments of which are almost thread-like. Flowers very 

 numerous, small, in a dense, large, terminal panicle, with 

 erect branches. Useful in groups, or as isolated speci- 

 mens in beds or borders. Division. 



* Artemisia annua (Annual Wormwood}. An ex- 

 ceedingly graceful kind of wormwood, with tall stems 

 reaching to a height of 5 ft. or 6 ft. in a season ; the 

 foliage is small and fine, and the flowers inconspicuous 

 but arranged in not inelegant panicles. The hue of the 

 plant is a peculiarly fresh and pleasing green, and it 

 forms an elegant object in the centre of a flower-bed or 

 group with plants of like character. Raised from seed as 

 easily as any half-hardy annual. 



* Artemisia gracilis. An exceedingly graceful plant, 

 3 or 4 ft. high, with leaves cut into very fine hair-like 

 segments, having some resemblance to fennel or other 

 umbelliferous plants with minutely-cut leaves, and of a 

 deep grass-green, except in the hearts of the shoots, 

 where the young leaves are unfolding, where there is 

 a slight hoary pubescence. The flowers are in com- 

 pound panicles, quite obscure, of a pale green, not at 

 all ornamental in the common sense, but forming a not 

 ungraceful inflorescence. However, the plant is only 

 likely to be grown for its graceful foliage and habit, 

 and the flowers, which only appear in autumn, may be 



