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places. Plant from 1 to 3 feet high ; stem branching. Leaves 

 clasping the stem, lanceolate, coarsely serrated; flower-heads 

 terminal, drooping ; involucre surrounded by long lanceolate 

 bracteas. Florets of a dull greenish-yellow. Goodrington Marsh. 

 (E. B. t. 1114.) A. vn.-ix. 



2. B. tripartita (trifid B,) In marshy places, by sides of 

 ponds and lakes. From 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves on short- 

 stalks, and divided into three lanceolate and serrated segments. 

 Flower-heads terminal, smaller than in the last, slightly droop- 

 ing ; florets brownish-yellow. Ditches about Chudleigh, Fl. D. 

 (E. B. t. 1113.) A. vn.-ix. 



TANACETUIV1. TANSY. 



T. vulg-are (common Tansy.) Under hedges, by roadsides, 

 and in waste places. Plant from 1 to 3 feet high ; stem erect, 

 not much branched, very leafy. Leaves twice pinnatifid, with 

 serrated segments. Flower-heads in a terminal corymb ; flowers 

 bright golden-yellow. Involucre hemispherical. Babbicombe. 

 Newton road, between Kingskerswell and Newton. Lane by the 

 side of the cricket-ground at Highweek. (E. B. t. 1229.) P. 



TIL VIII. 



ARTEMISIA. WORMWOOD, SOUTHERNWOOD, 

 MUaWORT. 



1. A. vulgaris (common Mugivort.) By sides of hedges and 

 in waste places, common. Plant from 2 to 3 feet high, with a- 

 short, woody, and thick stock, throwing off erect flowering stems ; 

 leaves deeply pinnatifid, with lanceolated, coarsely-toothed seg- 

 ments, green on their upper, but very white on their under sur- 

 faces. Flower-heads in a long terminal cluster ; involucres ovoid 

 and cottony ; florets reddish or brownish-yellow, from 12 to 20 

 in each head. Torre Abbey, and waste places near Torquay. 

 Marychurch. Teignmouth, etc. (E. B. t, 978.) P. vn.-ix. 



2. A. Absinthium (common Wormwood.) By roadsides and 

 in waste places, frequent. Growing from 1 to 3 feet in height ; 

 stock short, branched, and leafy, with erect and hard flowering 

 stems ; whole plant covered with a soft silky down, which gives 

 it a greyish-white appearance. Leaves, in their general contour, 

 almost round, but very much divided into linear-oblong seg- 

 ments ; uppermost leaves oblong, nearly entire. Flower-heads 

 numerous, in terminal, leafy clusters, drooping, nearly round ; 



