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innermost broadly oval, rounded at the apex, broadly scarious-margined; ray-flowers 6-15; 
corollas nearly 1 mm. long; achenes 0.7 mm. long; disk-flowers 15-20; corollas 2 mm. long, 
deeply campanulate; style 1.5 mm. long, tapering from the summit. 
TYPE Loca.Lity: Siberia. 
DISTRIBUTION: Northern and central Asia and eastern Europe; cultivated and rarely escaped 
in the eastern States. ‘ 
InLustRaTIONs: Fl. Deuts. ed. 5. pl. 3012; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 16: pl. 1041, f. IV. 
3. Artemisia aromatica A. Nelson, Bull. Torrey Club 27: 273. 
1900. 
Artemisia inodora H. & A. Bot. Beech. Voy. 150. 1833. Not A. inodora Mill. 1768. 
Artemisia dracunculoides Wolfii Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 32: 128. 1905. 
A perennial, with a woody branched rootstock; stem green, glabrous, striate, 4-8 dm. 
high, with ascending branches; leaves all entire or the lower 3-cleft, linear, 2-8 cm. long, 2-8 
mm. wide, glabrous; heads numerous in leafy panicles, heterogamous, nodding on short 
peduncles; involucre 2-2.5 mm. high, 3-4 mm. broad; bracts glabrous, about 20, in about 
3 series, the outer linear-oblong, obtuse or acute, almost as long as the inner ones, with narrow 
scarious margins, the inner ones broadly oval and with broad margins; ray-flowers 10—45; 
corollas glandular-puberulent, 1.5 mm. long; achenes 0.7 mm. long; disk-flowers 20-60; corollas 
dark-brown, deeply campanulate, glabrous, 2 mm. long; style nearly 2 mm. long, tapering 
from the summit. 
Type Locatity: Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming. _ ; ? 
DISTRIBUTION: Colorado and Wyoming to Washington, Lower California, and Sonora. 
4. Artemisia dracunculoides Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 742. 1814. 
Artemisia Dracunculus Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 521. 1814. Not A. Dracunculus L. 1753. 
Artemisia nutans Fraser; Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 742, as synonym. 1814. Not A. nutans Willd. 
1804 
Artemisia Nuttalliana Besser; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 326. 1833. 
A perennial, with a thick root; stem 3-10 dm. high, glabrous, striate, with ascending 
branches; lower leaves 3-cleft, the rest entire, linear, often spreading, 2-6 cm. long, 1-3 mm. 
wide, glabrous, acute; heads very numerous in a dense leafy panicle, nodding on short peduncles, 
heterogamous; involucre hemispheric, about 2 mm. high, 2-3 mm. broad; bracts 8-15, glabrous, 
in about 3 series, the outer elliptic, one half to three fourths as long as the inner, mostly obtuse, 
the inner oval, rounded at the apex, broadly scarious-margined; ray-flowers 10-20; corollas 
1 mm. long, glandular-puberulent; achenes about 0.5 mm. long; disk-flowers 10-20; corollas 
campanulate, 1.5 mm. long; style 0.7 mm. long, slightly thickened above. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Upper Louisiana [now South Dakota]. 
DISTRIBUTION: Manitoba to British Columbia, California, Texas, and Missouri. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 4001; ed. 2. f. 4574. 
5. Artemisia cernua Nutt. Gen. 2: 142. 1818. 
A perennial, with a taproot; stem erect, simple below, much branched above, striate, 
glabrous, often tinged with red; branches long and slender, drooping at the ends; lower leaves 
pinnately divided into linear-filiform divisions, glabrous, the upper, especially those of the 
branches, simple; peduncles slender, 3-6 mm. long; involucre hemispheric, 2 mm. high and 
broad; bracts yellowish with a greenish midrib, the outer oblong, obtuse, two thirds as long 
as the oval inner ones; ray-flowers about 15; corollas scarcely 1 mm. long; disk-flowers 15-20; 
corollas cylindro-campanulate, glabrous, about 1.5 mm. long; style 1 mm. long. 
TypPE Locality: St. Louis, Missouri. 
DIsTRIBUTION: Missouri and Kansas. 
6. Artemisia dracunculina S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 23: 279. 
1888. 
A perennial, with a short woody rootstock; stem erect, 5—8 dm. high, striate, long-villous 
when young. in age glabrate; leaves numerous, entire or the lower 3-cleft, linear, 2-6 cm. long, 
