157 ARTEMISIA PAUCIFLORA 



describes as the mother-plant of wormseed, and which was 

 brought from Turkestan by Petzholdt. From the description, 

 this A. Cinaj Willk. must be very close indeed to A. pauciflora ; 

 the authors of " Pharmacographia," however, who have had the 

 opportunity of examining an authentic specimen, state that the 

 " flower-heads do not entirely resemble the worrnseed of trade in 

 that they have fewer scales." 



In adopting here the specific name A. pauciflora, Web., it is not 

 intended to express any opinion on the validity of that species, 

 but merely to indicate definitely the plant intended. Most 

 botanists who have studied the numerous and puzzling varieties 

 of these Eussian Artemisia agree in referring the present, along 

 with many other described species, to the common and widely- 

 spread A. maritima, Linn., which is frequent on the British coasts 

 and extends under various forms throughout Europe and W. Asia 

 in salt marshes and saline tracts. 



Barbary wormseed is referred to A. Sieberi, Besser (A. glome- 

 rata, Sieber, A. contra. Linn. ?) by Batka, and to A. ramosa, 

 C. Smith, by Berg. 



Besser, in Bull, de la Soc. Imp. des Nat. de Moscou, vii (1834), 

 p. 31 ; DC. Prod., vi, p. 102 ; Ledebour, Fl. Rossica, ii, p. 570 ; 

 Willkomm, in Bot. Zeit., 1872, 130, abstracted in Pharm. 

 Journ., 1872, p. 762 ; Fliick. & Hanb., Pharmacogr., p. 346 ; 

 Batka, in Nova Acta Acad. Cses. Leop. -Carol., xiii (1827), p. 2. 



Official Parts and Names. 1. SANTONICA ; the unexpanded 

 flower-heads of an undetermined species of Artemisia, Linn. : 2. 

 SANTONINUM; a crystalline neutral principle prepared from 

 Santonica (B. P.). The unexpanded flower-heads (Santonica) 

 of a species of Artemisia (I. P.). SANTONICA; the unexpanded 

 flowers of Artemisia Cina (Willkomm) (U. S. P.). 



1. SANTONICA. Collection and Commerce. From information 

 communicated to Fliickiger and Hanbury, it would appear that 

 Santonica is now chiefly, if not entirely, collected on the steppes 

 or vast plains of the Kirghiz, in the northern parts of Turkestan. 

 It is thence forwarded to the great fair of Nishnei-Novgorod, whence 



