CXCI. 

 ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM. 



Common Wormwood. 



Class, fyc. See Mugwort {Artemisia vulgaris). 



Spec. Char. Leaves bipinnatifid, clothed with short 

 silky down ; segments lanceolate. Flowers hemi- 

 spherical, drooping. Receptacle hairy. 



SYNONYM ES. 



Greek .... a,$iv6iov. 



( Absinthium ponticum, seu romanum officinarum, seu Dios- 



! coridis. Bauh. Pin. 138. 



J Absinthium latifolium, sive ponticum. Ger. Em. 1096. Dod. 



J Pempt. 23. 



] Absinthium vulgare. Rail Syn. 188. Park. Theatr. 98. 

 Lob. Obs. 433. Fuch. Hist. 1. c. 1. 



{ Artemisia Absinthium. Lin. Sp. PI. 1188. Eng. Fl. iii. 



[_ p. 408. Eng. Bot. t. 1230. 

 French .... Absinthe ; Absinthe commune ; Grand Absinthe ; Aluyne. 



Latin. 



Description.— The root is perennial, rather thick, yellowish, 

 ligneous, branched and fibrous. The stem is erect, firm, an- 

 gular, striated, villous, pale green, branched, leafy, and rises 

 from one to two feet in height ; the branches are axillary, leafy, 

 and floriferous. The leaves are alternate, petiolate, doubly and 

 irregularly pinnatifid, (the lowermost nearly bipinnate,) with 



