CLXIV. 

 ARTEMISIA ABROTANUM. 



Southernwood. 



Class, 8fc. See Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris.) 



Spec. Char. Stem erect. Lower leaves bipinnate ; upper 

 pinnated, capillary. Involucre downy, hemispherical. 



SYNONYMES. 



Greek afigorovov. 



f Abrotanum mas angustifolium majus. JSauh. Pin. 136. 



j Abrotanum mas. Ger. Em. 1105. Park. Theatr. 92. Cam. 



, ,. Epit. 459. Dod. Pempt. 21. 



Latin.... J .. r < 



j Abrotonum. Trag. 341. 



J Artemisia Abrotanum. Lin. Sp. PI. 1185. Woodv. Med. 



L Bot. ii. 326. t. 1 19. Scop. Cam. n. 1034. 

 French. . . Aurone des Jardins ; Citronelle ; Garde-robe. 

 Ital. Span, > 

 and Port. * Abr °t*™- 



Aberraute ; Gartwurz ; Gertwurz. 



Description. — The root is perennial, woody, and fibrous. 

 The stem is shrubby below, covered with a smooth brown bark, 

 herbaceous and slightly woolly above, branched, leafy, and at- 

 tains the height of two or three feet. The leaves are numerous, 

 petiolate, of a light glaucous green colour, somewhat hoary or 

 woolly, doubly pinnated, with elongated linear and capillary, 

 obtuse, very entire segments, furrowed above, slightly concave 

 beneath, those of the branches less divided and on longer petioles : 

 the axils of all the leaves contain the rudiments of branches. 

 The flowers are small, roundish, greenish yellow, arranged in 

 terminal, slender, erect racemes. The involucre is composed 

 of several roundish, membranous, downy, imbricated scales. 

 The florets of the circumference are female, those of the centre 



