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Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed leaves. 



Petals united. 



Flowers, minute, in heads, all tubular. 



Artemisia scoparia, 



Pila-jau, 



churi sarqj, danti. 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii. 323. 



The Plains to 



7,000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla 



(Collett). 



Eawalpindi 



(Douie). 



Baluchistan 



(Hughes-Buller). 



medium size, annual, rootstock often perennial, smooth 

 below, green and slightly hairy above, branches many, 

 slender, faintly scented, leaves radical 1-3 in. long, stalked, 

 broadly ovate, much divided, segments linear, stem leaves 

 thread-hke, flowers very minute and numerous, nodding, 

 sessile or on threadlike stalks in one-sided branched ra- 

 cemes, bracts of heads oblong, ghstening, blunt, tliin with 

 narrow green disks, achenes -^^ in. long ; for other characters 

 see the last species. This plant is used for its purgative 

 action. , . . 



Artemisia amiua, 



COMPOSIT-Si. 



F. B. I. iii. 323. 

 N.-W. F. Province 

 5-5,000 ft. 

 (Stewart). 



medium size, annual, very slender, strongly scented, 

 smooth, branches deeply grooved, leaves lower much di- 

 vided, broad, 3 in. diam., segments toothed orlobulate, with 

 stipule-like divided at the base of the stalk, heads -jV'tu- 

 in. diam., nearly round in very slender one-sided branched 

 drooping racemes, bracts of the heads smooth, inner 

 circular, green, mth thin margins, afterwards altogether 

 papery, shining ; for other characters see the last species. 



Artemisia maritima, 

 Worm seed, 

 or santonica, 



Shih, sariqun, 



afsantin-ul-hahr. 



Composit.e. 



F. B. I. iii. 323. 



Himalaya, 



7-9,000'ft. 



Kashmir. 



Baluchistan 



(Lace). 



medium size, perennial, shrubby below, much branch- 

 ed, leaves |-2 in., lower ovate, twice divided, segments 

 small, spreading, linear, blunt, stalks slender, upper leaves 

 undivided, linear, heads 3-8-flowered, ovoid or oblong, 

 erect, often reddish, crowded in spiked tufts, bracts of 

 heads linear-oblong, outer green felted, inner thin, short- 

 pointed, smooth ; for other characters see the last species. 

 The flower heads are used as anthelmintics. Santonin, 

 which is much used in European medicine, is obtained 

 from these flower heads. 



