PLex.cal. 59. COMPOSITiE, C. 213. Absinth. 451 



Absinthium vulgare. Common wormivood. 



Leaves woolly ; root-leaves triply pinnatifid, blunt ; upper 

 leaves pinnatiiid, pointed, lobes lanceolate ; uppermost 

 leaves undivided ; calathides globose, peduncled, drooping. 



Absinthium valgare, Raii Syn.\S8,\i Parfc. 98; Gcertner, Fr.etSevi. 

 2, 393. 



Absinthium latifolium sive Ponticum, Ger. em. 1096, 1. 

 Artemisia Absinthium, Lin. S. P. 1188. 



Ruins, sea-shores, and cultivated ; perennial ; August. 



Root woody; stej?i branched, panicled at top; racemes 

 upright; calathides pedicelled, drooping, yellowish. — Roots 

 warm, aromatic ; leaves and flowers bitter, preserve beer 

 and destroy its acidity, if already acquired ; stomachic, 

 render the milk of a suckling woman bitter, and also mut- 

 ton if the sheep feed upon it; moistened with hot water 

 and applied externally, are antiseptic, anodyne, and pre- 

 vents the swelling and discolouration of bruises; ashes 

 contain much subcarbonate of potash, very free from other 

 salts. 



XXXIX. 214. DIOTIS. Desfontaines. Cottonweed. 



Pericline hemispherical ; scales concave, imbricate, 

 pressed close, tomentose ; calathides flosculous ; flowers all 

 tubular, 5-cut, compressed below, dilated into two pro- 

 cesses laterally embracing the ovary ; stigma exserted ; cli- 

 nanthus convex, chaffy ; chaffs oblong, concave, tip exter- 

 nally woolly ; akenium oblong; pappus 0. — Stem tomentose, 

 white; leaves alternate, flat, ribless; calathides terminalj 

 corymbose; cor oUcb golden. 



Diotis candidissima. Very-ivhite cottonweed. 



Leaves oblong, blunt, crenate, densely woolly ; peduncle 

 corymbose. 



Gnaphalium maritimnm, Raii Syn, 180, 1. 



Gnaphalium marinum, Ger. em. 640. ^ 



Gnaphalium marinum seu Cotonaria, Park, 687. 



Filago maritima, Lin. S. P. ed. 1, 927. 



Santolina maritima, Lin. Mant. 1. 



Athanasia maritima, Lin. S. P. 1182. 



Diotis candidissima, Desfont. Atlant. 2, 261. 



Sea cudweed. Chaffioeed, Petty cotton. 



Sandy sea-shores ; perennial ; August and September. 

 Root branched; stem decumbent; branches upright; 

 leaves alternate, spreading. 



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