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AltBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUH. 



ZL 1. -^. /Ibro'taxum L. The Abrotanum Artemisia, o?' Southernwood. 



licntifir.atton. Lfn. Sp., 1185. ; Wilki. Sp. PI., 3. p. ISlS. ; Alt. Hort. Kew., ed. 2. vol. 5. p. 3. 



Synoni/mes. Wbv6tanum mas Dod. Pempt. 21.; Old Man; Armoise Auroue, Aurone des Jardins, !,i 

 Citronelle, la Garderobe, Fr. ; Eberraute, Wermutli, Stabwurtz, Gartenwurtz. Ger. ; Abrotanu, 

 Hal., Span., and Port. 



Derivation. The Greek name for this plant is Abrotonon, which is variously derived from abroton, 

 incorruptible ; from abroton, unfit for food ; from the soft delicacy {abroius) of its ai)pe;trance ; or 

 from abros, soft, and lorios, extension, because it is e.Ktended, or grows in a very soft manner. 

 Why Linnasus and others write it Abrotanum is not known. The name of Old RIan, doubtless, 

 has reference to its grey and powdery appearance. It is called Garderobe in French, from its 

 being used to prevent moths from getting into clothes-presses and wardrobes. Eberraute is boar's 

 rue ; and VVermuth, wormwood ; Stabwurtz means staff root ; and Gartenwurtz garden root. 



Engraviiigs Blackw., t. 55. ; Woodv., 356. t. ll'J. ; and our ^i'. 1023. 



Sj^ec. Char., S^-c. Stem straight. Lower leaves bipinnate, 

 upper ones pinnate, with the segments hair-like. Calyxes 

 pubescent, hemispherical. ( IVi/ld.) A suffruticose bush. 

 South of Europe, Siberia, Syria,^ and China. Height 

 3 ft. to 4 ft. in low situations, and in mountains not above 

 half that height, with the branches recumbent. Introduced 

 in 1596. Flowers yellowish ; August to October. 



Varij?iies. 



a. A. A. 2 hiimile Hort. is a low-growing spreading 

 shrub, found on mountains in the South of Europe, 

 and retaining its dwarf habit for some years in 

 British gardens. 

 a. A. A. 3 tobohkidnum Hort., A. tobolskiana Lodd. 

 Cat., was introduced from Siberia in 1820 or be- 

 fore, and is a much more vigorous-growing variety, and larger in all 

 its parts, than the species. 



Well known for its fragrance, which appears to proceed 

 from glandular dots in the leaves. 



1025. A, .4brtjtanum. 



Other Species. A. arborescens L., a native of the South 

 of France and the Levant, is said to attain the height 

 of 6 or 8 feet, but it is more sufFrutescent than A. 

 -'ibrotanum. A. procera Willd., South of France, is '^ 

 equally ligneous with the common southernwood, and ^ 

 grows to the height of .5 or 6 feet in the Paris garden, 

 where it stands the winter without protection. A. Sa- 

 tonica L., and our fig. 1024., is a low spreading bush, not 

 exceeding a foot in height. 1024. a. *-am<!mca. 



Genus VL 



iSENE'CIO Lessing. The Senecio. Lin. St/st. Syngenesia 



Superfliia. 



Identification. Less. Synops. Gen. Compos., p. 391 



Smionymes. Cineraria Lessing Synops. Gen. Compos, p. 389. ; Sgnecon. Fr. Kreuzkreut, Ger. 

 Sfdrop. '"^''''" ''^'"^"= ^^^ receptacle of the flowers being kft naked when the 



Gen. Char., ^c. Heads homogamous, discoid, or heterogamous. Flowers of the 

 ray ligulate, female. Involucre in one series, sometimes naked, and some-; 

 time calyculated by accessory scales. Scales usuallv sphacelate at apex, with 

 subscarioLis margins, frequently marked by two nerves on the back. Rc-\ 

 ceptacl'j destitute of paleic, naked or alveolate. Styles of hermaphrodite 



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