450 212. Artemisia. 39. COMPOSITE, C. Plex.cal. 



4. Artemisia maritima. Sea mugwort. 

 Stem herbaceous, branched, ascending ; twigs drooping ; 



leaves white, tomentose, many-cut ; lobes flat, linear ; flower- 

 ing-stems simple, linear ; calatliides oblong, tomentose, 

 sessile. 



Absinlhiiun marinum album, Ilaii Syn. 188,2; Ger.em. 1099, I. 

 Absintiiiiiin maritimum nostra-, Dillen in Raii Syn. 189, 6. 

 Artemisia maritima, Lin, S. P. 1186. 

 English sea-ii'orniKood. Roman icormwood, Herbsellers. 



Sea-shores, also cultivated ; perennial ; August. 

 Root wooci}^, creeping. — Herb aromatic, bitter, milder 

 than wormwood. 



^. latifolia. Leaves broad, woolly. 



Absinthium maritimum seriphio Belgico simile, latiore folio, odori* 

 jrati, Raii Syn. 188,3. 



5. Artemisia Gallica. French mugwort. 

 Stem upright, branchy, tomentose; hranches upright; 



leaves woolly, bipinnate; lobes linear, threadlike; stem- 

 leaves pinnate, uppermost leaves linear ; calathides oblong, 

 nearly sessile, upright. 



Absintliium seriphium tenuifolium marinum Narbonense, Dillen in Raii 

 S3/n. 189,5. 



Artemisia Gallica, Willd. S. P. 1S34. 

 Artemisia maritima y. Smith Fl. Brit. 864. 

 French sea-wonnicood. 



Sea-shores; perennial; August. 



6. Artemisia angustifolia. Narroiu-leavcd mugwort. 

 S/em shrubby, stiff: lower /eaw^ bipinnate; upper leaves 



pinnate, hairlike; pericUrte downy, hemispherical. 



Abrotanum mas, Ger. em. 1105, 2. 

 Abrotanum mas vulgarc, Park. 92. 

 Artemisia Abrotanum, Zy?fj. S. P. 1188, 



Southernmood. 



Dunghills and cultivated; perennial; August. 

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 XXXVIII. 213. ABSINTHIUM. Dioscor. JVormwomL 



Periclifie hemispherical ; scales oblong, imbricate, pressed 

 close; calathides ^osculous ;Jlowers all fertile; of the centre 

 hermaphrodite, funnelshape, 5-lobed; of the cii'cumfe- 

 rence few, female, awl shape, not toothed; cUnanthus coni- 

 cal, tuberculate, villous; akenia uniform, ovate; pappus 0. 

 Stem herbaceous or undershrubby ; leaves mostly many- 

 cut. 



