CALIFORNIA SAGE BRUSH (Artemisia calif ornica, Less.). 

 Flower heads yellowish or whitish, all tubular, very numerous, 

 nodding in panicled racemes. Leaves grayish green, once or 

 twice parted into threadlike divisions, or the uppermost 

 threadlike entire and clustered; pleasantly aromatic. A 

 shrub 2 to 5 feet high, much branched, abundant on hillsides 

 in California from San Francisco southward to Mexico, par- 

 ticularly near the Coast, blooming from May to August. 



No fragrance of the hills is more grateful to the average 

 rambler than that of the California Sage when it is released 

 as his clothing brushes against it. Both this and the appear- 

 ance of the plant suggest the Southernwood of old-fashioned 

 gardens, which is, indeed, an Old World cousin of our plant. 

 I have heard that Spanish-Calif ornians call the California Sage 

 "romerillo," and they make a tea of it for bronchial troubles. 

 It is near akin to wormwood, and a similar bitter principle is 

 resident in it. Owing to the plant's abundance on many hill- 

 sides, forming extensive thickets, it is also known in some 

 sections as Hill Brush. 



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