466 SYNGENESIA: PCLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 



mach, for which reafon the young leaves in the 

 fpring have receiv'd a place among the culinary 

 herbs, their juice being an ingredient in puddings, 

 tanfies, and other dainties- It is rarely ufed in 

 medicine, tho' extoll'd as a good emmanagogue. 

 A drachm of the dry'd flowers has been found 

 very beneficial in hyfterics arifing from fuppref- 

 fions. The feeds and leaves were formerly in 

 confiderable efteem for deftroying worms in chil- 

 dren, and are reckon'd good in colics and flatu- 

 lencies. In ibm.e parts of Sweden and Lapland 

 a bath with a decoftion of this plant is made 

 life of to afl^ift in parturition, 



ARTEMISIA. Gen. pL 945. 

 RecepL fubvillofum vel nudiufculum. Pappus nu!- 

 lus. Cal. imbricatus fquamis rotundatis, conni- 

 ventibus. Cor. in ambitu feminre, oblblctas, Ion- 

 go flyio donatse. 



"^ Frocumbentes ante florefcentiam. 

 maritima i. ARTEMISIA foliis multipartitis tomentofis, race- 

 mis ccrnuis, fiofculis feminfeis ternis. Sp. pi. 

 1 1 86. (Ger. em. 1099./. i. Moris, hijl. f. 6. /. 2. 

 /. I 9 £5^ 20) 

 Sea V/ormwood. Jn^lis. 



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Upon the fca-fliores, but not very common, as up- 

 on the coait by Guillon-Loch. Dr. Parjons. %. 

 IX. 



The root and bafe of the llalks are of a tough 

 woody texture, and the whole plant cover'd with 



a white 



