328 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Artemisia. 



suberect. Leaves very finely cut, sessile or petioled. Heads numerous, yellow, 

 usually rather distant ; receptacle very obscurely pubescent ; corolla of very short, 

 almost cupular, glabrous or pubescent. Placed in the section Absinthium by Boissier 

 and Clarke, but it is most closely allied to A. Falconeri, and the pubescence of the 

 receptacle is totally different from the long hairs of the Absinthium section. 



22. A. Falconeri, Clarke mss. ; hoary tomentose, stem woody and 

 branched below, branches slender strict erect simple, leaves small broad short 

 lower 2-pinnatisect floral and upper pinnatifid equally tomentose on both surfaces, 

 segments small subacute pointing upwards, heads in. diam. hemispheric 

 pedicelled nodding forming a simple terminal secund leafy raceme, invol. bracts 

 tomentose, outer linear green, inner oblong obtuse tomentose green, innermost 

 scarious, receptacle small convex. 



WESTERN TIBET ; Falconer. 



A foot high, branches very slender but stiff, not grooved. Leaves ^- in. long, 

 and as broad, radical and lower cauline with slender petioles ; upper cauline, sessile ; 

 segments linear or narrowly lanceolate. Heads in perfectly simple secund strict 

 erect racemes terminating the erect branches. I have seen no specimens but 3 of 

 Falconer's, and I have hence no idea how much this species may vary ; its very 

 slender, simple, erect branches and racemes are unlike any other, but it may be a 

 contracted form of A. Moorcroftiana. 



23. A. Stracheyi, Hookf. $ T. ; Clarke Comp. 2nd. 164; dwarf, softly 

 villously tomentose, branches annual simple strict erect very stout from a very 

 large woody branched many-headed rootstock, leaves 3-6 in. linear-oblong 

 2-pinnatisect subsilkily villous on both surfaces, segments close-set short linear 

 or lanceolate subacute, heads in. diam. broadly hemispheric shortly pedi- 

 celled nodding forming a simple terminal secund stout leafless raceme, invol. 

 bracts numerous obovate tomentose with broad brown scarious margins, recep- 

 tacle broad, corolla densely villous. 



WESTERN TIBET; Manasarowar Lake, alt. 15,000 ft., Strach. $ Winterb.; Lanak 

 Pass and Valley above Pugha, alt. 15-17,000 ft., Thomson; Kupchu, Heyde. 



A very remarkable species, with the heads of a Tanacetum, but racemed like the 

 Abrotanoid Absinthia. Boot woody, a foot long ; rootstock of numerous short 

 branches as thick as the finger, clothed with sheathing bases of old petioles. Achenes 

 ^ in. long, cuneiform, compressed, unlike those of most Artemisia. 



SECT. IV. Absinthium. Heads heterogamous ; ray-fl t $, disk-fl. $, 

 both fertile ; receptacle covered with long hairs. 



* Perennials. 



24. A. Absinthium, Linn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 373 ; perennial, hoary- 

 pubescent, stems erect angular and ribbed, leaves ovate or obovate unequally 

 2-3-pinnatifidly cut into spreading linear or lanceolate obtuse segments hoary 

 on both surfaces, radical and lower cauline narrowed into winged petioles, heads 

 j in. diam. pedicelled hemispheric in drooping secund racemes terminating 

 the branches, outer invol. bracts oblong hoary narrowly scarious, inner orbicular 

 broadly scarious, receptacular hairs long straight. DC. Prodr. vi. 125. Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 104 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1029. Absinthium vulgare, Qcertn. 

 Fruct. ii. t. 164. 



KASHMIR; alt. 5-7000 ft., Thomson, Falconer, &c. DISTRIB. N. Asia, Affghanistan 

 and westward to the Atlantic. 



Very aromatic, almost silkily hoary, stem 1-3 ft. Leaves 1-2 in. Heads numerous, 

 but hardly crowded ; fl. yellow ; ray-corolla dilated below ; anthers acuminate (not 

 aristate). Achenes elliptic-oblong or somewhat obovoid, ^ in. long. 



