OLASS XIX. ORDER I.} ARTEMISIA. 1067 
Habitat.—Summits of the Highland Mountains; abundant. 
Perennial ; flowering in July and August. 
6. G. uligino'sum, Linn. (Fig. 1262.) Marsh Cudweed. Stem erect, 
much branched and spreading, woolly ; leaves linear lanceolate, the 
lower ones tapering towards the base; flowers in terminal crowded 
clusters, shorter than the accompanying leaves. 
English Botany, t. 1194.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 417—Hooker, 
_ British Flora, ed. 4. vol i. p. 302.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 145. 
Root small, fibrous. Stem two to four inches high, mostly nume- 
rously branched and spreading, leafy, thickly clothed with cottony 
pubescence. JZeaves linear lanceolate, white and cottony on both 
sides, the lower ones gradually tapering to the base, spreading. 
Flowers in densely crowded axillary tufts, shorter than the accom- 
panying leaves. Jnvolucre ovate, smooth, of numerous narrow 
smooth shining membranous lanceolate scales, brown, /lorets nu- 
merous, pale yellow, tubular, the limb five-cleft. Fruit very small, 
ovate. Pappus white, rough short hairs. Receptacle dotted, exposed 
after the fruit has fallen. 
Habitat.—Wet and sandy places, especially where water has stood. 
Annual; flowering from August to September. 
GENUS XXVIII. ARTEMI'SIA.—Liny. Wormwood, Southern- 
wood. 
Nat. Ord. Composi'tm. Juss. 
Gun. Cuan. Involucrum imbricated, ovate, or globose. Florets few, 
all perfect, tubular, or those of the disk perfect, and of the cir- 
cumference with pistils only. Receptacle naked, or hairy. 
Pappus wanting.—Name from Artemis, the Greek name of 
Diana. 
1. A. campes'tris, Linn. (Fig. 1263.) Pield Southernwood. Flower- 
ing stems ascending, paniculated ; leaves smooth, or silky, bi- or tri- 
pinnatifid, with linear mucronate segments, the floral leaves undi- 
vided; involucre ovate, smooth, of ovate membranous margined 
scales. 
English Botany, t. 338.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 407 Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 300.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 149. 
foot tapering, the whole plant with a peculiar odour and bitter 
flavour. Stems numerous, the barren ones cespitose, the fertile ones 
ascending when in flower, round, smooth, slender, leafy, branched, 
from one to two feet high. Leaves very numerous, the radical ones 
bi- or tri-pinnate, on long slender spreading footstalks, the upper ones 
sessile, pinnatifid, and the floral ones simple, linear, the segments all 
linear, bristle pointed, smooth on the upper side, silky on the under, 
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