Artemisia.'] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 323 



shrubby, though described as herbaceous by Eoxburgh. The corolla of the ray is not 

 pubescent, as represented in Wight's Icones. 



** Annuals, rarely perennials. 



6. A. scoparia, Waldst. $ Kit. PL Ear. Hung. i. 66, t. 65; annual, or 

 rootstock perennial, glabrous below, hoary or villous, radical leaves petioled 

 broadly ovate 1-3-pinnatisect, segments linear, cauline filiform, heads minute 

 J__J_ in. secund in slender panicled racemes, invol. bracts glistening oblong ob- 

 tuse scarious with narrow green disks. JBoiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 364 ; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Hoss. ii. 569 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 158. A. elegans, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 421 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 4300. A. trichophylla, Wall. Cat. 3305 ; DC. 1. c. vi. 100 ; Clarke I. c. 



UPPER GANGETIC PLAIN, and westwards to SCIND and the PUNJAB. WESTERN 

 HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Lahul, alt. 5-7000 ft. WESTERN TIBET, alt. 7-12,000 

 ft., Thomson. DISTRIB. Japan, Afghanistan to Central Europe. 



A faintly scented very slender branched annual, 1-2 ft. high ; branchlets often 

 almost capillary. Leaves, radical 1-3 in., long-petioled, the segments distant spreading ; 

 cauline setaceous. Heads sessile or on short capillary pedicels. Achenes ^ in. long 

 (perhaps one of the most minute fruits of any flowering plant). Though usually 

 annual and described as such, some specimens, both from the plains of India and 

 Tibet, have very woody stocks. 



7. A. stricta, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 73; annual, laxly villous 

 or glabrate, erect or branches diffusely prostrate, radical leaves petioled 1-3- 

 pinnatisect, segments linear or lanceolate, cauline sessile less divided or entire, 

 heads y 1 in. diam. subglobose sessile in spiked clusters or solitary suberect, 

 invol. bracts oblong obtuse pubescent, outer greenish with narrow scarious mar- 

 gins glabrous and shining in age. Clarke Comp. Ind. 158. 



Tibetan Passes of the HIMALAYA; Kumaon, alt. 10-11,500 ft., Edgeworth, Strach. 

 4" Winterb. SIKKIM, alt. 15,000 ft., J. D. H. WESTERN TIBET, alt. 10-13,000 ft., 

 Thomson. 



Very variable ; from a diffuse herb with spreading prostrate branches 2-6 in. long, 

 to a tall branching one 2 ft. high, readily distinguished from A. scoparia by the smaller 

 less divided radical leaves, the shorter pinnatisect cauline ones, and the usually pubes- 

 cent larger heads being sessile, erect or suberect, and forming very short spikes, and 

 being not at all secund. The achenes are also larger than in that plant. 



8. A. annua, Linn.\ Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 371; annual, erect, very 

 slender, glabrous, branches deeply grooved, leaves broad 3-pinnatisect or decom- 

 pound, segments serrate or lobulate, heads iV^o in. diam. subglobose secund in 

 very slender panicled racemes pedicelled pendulous, invol. bracts glabrous, inner 

 orbicular green with scarious margins at length all scarious and shining. A. 

 Stewartii, Clarke Comp. Ind. 163. A. Wadei, Edgeiv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xx. 72. 



The PUNJAB; Peshawur to Wnzuristan, alt. 5500 ft, Stewart. DISTRIB. Siberia, 

 Affghanistan, and westwards to Hungary. 



A very strong scented species. It has 4-pinnatifid lower leaves, 3 in. broad, and 

 as long, with stipuliform pinnatifid auricles at the base of the petiole, and with puberu- 

 lous nerves beneath. Stewart's specimens are tall, strict, copiously pauiculately 

 branched, with fully developed leaves deltoid-ovate in outline, identical with Edge- 

 worth's, and both with Siberian and Caucasian specimens of A. annua. Though 

 usually placed in the section Abrotanum, I find the ray flowers to be always fertile and 

 the disk flowers sterile. 



SECT. I!* Seriphidium. Heaas homogamous ; flowers all fertile, recep- 

 tacle naked. 



9. A. maritima, Linn. ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 570 ; hoary or tomentose, 



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