PL ex. cal. 39. COMPOSITE, C. 212. Artemisia. 44-9 



XXXVII. 212. ARTEMISIA. Hippocrates. Mugwort. 

 Pericline ovate or roundish; scales imbricate, oblong, 

 pressed close; calathides ^osc\\\o\xs fioivers all fertile; of 

 the centi-e hermaphrodite, funnelshape, 5-lobed ; of the cir- 

 cumference few, female, awlshape, not toothed ; clinantlius 

 conical, tuberculate, naked; akeihia uniform, ovate ; pappus 0. 

 — Stem herbaceous, or undershrubby ; leaves mostly many- 

 cut. 



1. Artemisia campestris. Field mugwort. 

 - Stem procumbent, branched, rodlike ; root-leaves woolly, 

 pinnate, lobes 3-cut; stem-leaves bristleshape, bald; cala- 

 thides ovate-globose, pendulous. 



Abrotanum campestre, Raii Syn. 190, 1; Ger.em. 1106,5; Park. 94. 

 Artemisia campestris, Lin. S. P. 1185. 



Dry sandy heaths ; perennial ; August. 

 Root fusiform ; leaves rather fleshy ; calathides racemous ;, 

 Jlowers brownish green, 



2. Artemisia cceridescens. Bhdsh mugwort. 

 Stem rather shrubby, branched ; leaves woolly, lanceolate, 



not in the least cut; root-leaves cut; calathides oblong, 

 cylindrical, panicled, drooping. 



Artemisia marina, Ger. em. 1104, 3. 

 Artemisia caerulescens, Lin. S. P. 1189. 

 Sea mugwort. 



Sea-shores; perennial; August. 



Hoot fibrous ; stem round, panicled ; leaves petioled, 

 woolly on both sides; racemes simple, upright; calathides 

 small. 



S. Artemisia vulgaris. Common mugwort. 



Stem, herbaceous ; leaves pinnatifid, cut, beneath tomen- 

 tose, above blackish green ; uppermost undivided, linear, 

 lanceolate ; calathides nearly sessile, oblong, upright ; peri- 

 eline tomentose. 



Artemisia vulgaris, Raii Syn. 190, 1 ; Park. 90; Lin. S. P. 1188. 

 Artemisia, mater herbarum, Ger. em. 1103, 1. 

 Artemisia minor, Park. 91. 



Ruins and waysides ; perennial ; August. 



Root woody ; stem upright, panicled ; leaves petioled ; 

 facemes upright, simple, leafy ; calathides ovate. — Herb 

 aromatic, in decoction cures the ague ; leaves in powder 5j, 

 four times a day, useful in hysteric fits, after assafoetida and 

 ether had been tried in vain. 



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