COMPOSITiE. 65 



with the leaves on long stalks. Flowering-stems prostrate, becoming 

 more and more upright as they come into flower, 1 to 2 feet long, 

 much more slender and rigid than in the j^reccding species. An- 

 tliodes ^ inch across. Florets yellow, the involucre often purple. 

 Achcncs oblong, glabrous. Plant dark-green, at length glabrous, 

 not aromatic. 



Field Southernwood. 



French, Armoise des Clianips. Glerinan, Feld Beifuss. 



This plant is destitute of the pleasant scent of the Soutliernwood of our gardens 

 — the " old man" of our childhood — though it belongs to the same family. The real 

 Southernwood is a native of Southern Europe and Asia. It was known to the Greeks, 

 and was called Ahrotonon by them. It.s botanical name is Artemisia Abrotannm- 

 It is a very old ftivourite in gardens, and is mentioned by Turner and Gerarde as 

 being cultivated in almost every English garden in their time. 



Section IV.— SERIPHIDIUM. Bess. 



Anthodes homogamous ; florets all perfect. Stigmas enlarged 

 into a ciliated disk at the summit. Clinanth glabrous. 



SPECIES IV.— ARTEMISIA MARITIMA. Linn. 

 Plates DCCXXXIV. DCCXXXV. 



Stem herbaceous, erect, paniculately branched. Leaves not 

 punctate, more or less cottony on both sides, the lower ones stalked, 

 bipinnate, with the idtimate segments linear, blunt, not apiculate. 

 Anthodes numerous, 3- to 5-flowered, erect or drooping, sessile, in 

 rather dense spikes arranged in a leafy panicle with the branches 

 drooping or erect. Pericline oblong-ovoid ; phyllaries unequal, 

 more or less cottony on the back, scarious at the edges. Florets 

 all perfect. Clinanth glabrous. 



Var. a, genuina. 



Plate DCCXXXIV. 



HdcL Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. JIXXXIX. Fig. 1. 



Mlot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1008. 



A. maritima, Sni. Eng. Bot. No. 1706. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. \?jJ. 



Reich. 1. c, p. 75. 

 A. luaritima et A. salina, Willd. D. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 103. 



Branches of the panicle spreading, drooping at the apex. 

 Anthodes erect or drooping. 



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