157 



N. Ord. COMPOSITE. 

 Tribe Anthemidece. 



Genus Artemisia, Linn. 



157. Artemisia pauciflora, Weber, in Stechm. de Artom., p. 26 

 (1775) (non Willd. nee Bieb.) 



Syn. A.. maritima, var. Stechmanniana, Besser. A. maritima, var. 

 pauciflora, Ledebour.. A. Lercheana, Kar. & Kir. (non Weber in 

 Stechm.) 



Not previously figured. 



Description. A small, semi-shrubby perennial with an oblique 

 knotted, fibrous rootstock branching from the crown, from which 

 and from the old branches arise numerous short leafy shoots, and 

 many erect flowering stems about 1 foot high. Stems slender, 

 cylindrical, at first uniformly woolly with a fine white tomentum, 

 afterwards glabrous and woolly in patches, at first leafy in the 

 lower part, afterwards bare, much branched above, branches erect. 

 Leaves small, the largest under 1 inch long, alternate, those on 

 the leafy shoots long-stalked, deeply bipinnatisect, the segments 

 linear blunt, sometimes again trisected, involute when young and 

 very woolly, afterward greyish ; the stem-leaves on shorter stalks 

 and with narrower segments, soon withering off, the uppermost 

 ones simple. Heads small, about ~ inch long, oblong-ovoid, 

 blunt, sessile or shortly stalked in the axils of shorter linear 

 leaves, erect, arranged somewhat densely along the upper 

 portions of the slender virgate branches, forming interrupted, 

 elongated, spike-like panicles, the whole making up a rather 

 dense, erect, broom-like inflorescence ; scales of the involucre 

 12 18, imbricate, the outer ones shortest, the innermost longest, 

 oblong, blunt, concave, the inner ones incurved at the apex, all 

 with a broad, thick, yellowish- green midrib, usually with a little 

 short greyish wool and (except the outermost) bordered with a 

 transparent, scarious, glabrous border (widest in the inner scales), 

 in which are numerous scattered glands. Flowers 3 to 5 in each 

 head ; calyx-limb a mere rim ; corolla broadly tubular, slightly 



