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Waste ground and near villages, generally escaped from the 

 gardens where it is grown for its use as a medicine. The plant 

 is one foot or more high, much branched, with divided cottony 

 leaves, green above, and white beneath. The flowers, which 

 cover all the branches, are yellow, roundish, and drooping. 

 The taste of the plant is warm, aromatic, and most intensely 

 bitter. 



MUGWORT. Artemisia vulgaris. 



Plate 12, fig. 17. 

 Leaves dark green above, white underneath. Flowers purple. 



Much more common than either of the others, found in 

 hedge-rows almost everywhere, flowering in August. It is 

 known from them by being less bitter ; the leaves less cut ; 

 cottony only on the under side ; the flowers with a less number 

 of leaves among them, in thicker bunches, and of a purple 

 color. Its properties are similar to the last, but less powerful. 



O. S. Field Wormwood, and Bluish or Lavender-leaved Mugwort, 

 both rare. 



CUDWEED. GNAPHALIUM. 

 MARSH CUDWEED. Gnaphalium uliffinosum. 



Plate 12, fig. 18. 

 Flowers brown, in bunches, shorter than the leaves. 



The three Cudweeds here described are abundant in gravelly 

 places, where they have often nothing but the bare gravel to 

 attach their roots to. They are known at once from all other 

 plants first, from their being wholly covered with a white, 

 downy cotton, and from their flowers, which are of that sort 

 we call " Everlasting. " The leaves of the calyx are stiff, horny, 

 and shining, either of a white or of a yellow color. The 

 present species has a very much branched and diffuse woolly 

 stem, narrow but long leaves ; and its flowers sessile, in termi- 

 nal thick clusters, which are shorter than the leaves. Scales 

 of the calyx brown and smooth. The height of the plant is 

 not more than three or four inches, and like the others it 

 flowers in the Autumn. 



