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 a white cotton down: the flowers grow in com- 

 pound nodding fplkes, each having three female 

 florets in the rim : the receptacle is naked. 

 The plant has a fl:rong fcent of marum or cam- 

 phor. 



** EreEiie herhacea, foliis comtofitls. 



ARTEMISIA foliis compofitis multifidis, floribus 

 fubglobofis pendulis ^ receptaculo villolb. ^p. pi. 

 1188. (Ger. em. 1096. /. i. FeL herb. t. 20./. i. 

 Moris, hiji.f. 6. t. i.f.i. ordinis infer lor is. Gme~ 

 lin.Sibir. II. p. 129. /. 63. Blackwell. t. 16.; 

 Common Wormwood. AngUs. 

 In wafle places, and by way-fldes, as about Aher- 

 lady^ and the Slueen's-Ferry^ &:c. Dr. Parfom. 

 li.VlU. 

 The ftalk is two feet high, angular and branch'd : 

 the leaves are of a hoary green on the upper 

 fide, and cover'd with a white fatin down un- 

 derneath, are foft to the touch, and pinnated : 

 the primary pinn^ are divided into two lobes, the 

 fecondary are bifid, trifid, quadrifid, and even 

 pinnatind, the extreme fegments being obtufely 

 lanceolate : the flowers are yellow, pendulous, 

 and grow fix or feven in a fpike at the fummits 

 of the branches, all leaning on the fame fide, 

 and one only on a peduncle, which peduncle is 

 longer than the calyx., but fliorter than the fub- 

 tending leaf: the fcales of the calyx are fmooth, 

 five in number, the exterior ones longefi: and 

 H h 2 narrowelt. 



