SYNGENESIA— POLYG.-SUPERF. Artemisia. 407 



often reddish^ near '2 feet high. Leaves irregularly and doubly 

 pinnatifid, with narrow, linear, blunt segments ; clothed beneath 

 with close silvery hairs : smooth above ; the radical ones nume- 

 rous the first year, on long footstalks, spreading close to the 

 ground. Fl. drooping, small, ovate, yellow, with a purplish 

 calyx, forming numerous, slender, leafy clusters, at the ends of 

 the stem and branches. Calyx-scales roundish, with a broad, 

 membranous, shining, jagged margin. Recept. small, naked. 

 Florets of the disk about 15, tipped with purple ; of the circum- 

 ference 2 or 3, awl-shaped, entire, yellow. 



2. A. inaritima. Drooping Sea Wormwood. 



Leaves downy, pinnatifid ; uppermost undivided. Flowers 

 drooping, oblong, downy, sessile. Receptacle naked. 



A. maritima. Linn. Sp. PI. 11 8fi. Willd. v. 3. 1833. Fl. Br. 864, 

 a and (3. Comp. ed. 4. 135. Huds. 358. Hook. Scot. 239. 

 fVoodv. t. 1 22. Ehrh. PI. Off. 90. 



Absinthium marinum album. Rail Syn. ed. 2. 94. ed. 3. 188. Ger. 

 Em, 1099./. 



A. marinum. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 48./. ? Camer. Epit. 455. f. 



A. maritimum nostras. Dill, in Raii Syn. 1 89. Raii Hist. «. 3. 23 1 . 



/3. A. maritimum, Seriphio Belgico simile, latiore folio, odoris 

 grati. Raii Stjn. ed. 2. 94, ed. 3. 188. 



French Sea Wormwood. Fetiv. H. Brit. t. 20./. 3. Dill. 



y. Absinthii maritimi species, latiore folio. Raii Syn. ed, 2. 94. 

 ed. 3. 189. 



On the sea shove, or about the mouths of large rivers, in a muddy 

 soil, frequent. 



Perennial. August. 



Root rather woody. Herb hoary with fine white cottony down, 

 having a more agreeably aromatic resinous odour, and less bitter 

 taste, than Common Wormwood. Stems erect or recumbent, 

 woody, furrowed, solid, copiously and alternately branched, 

 densely leafy. Leaves pinnatifid with 3.cleft segments, various 

 in breadth and hoariness ; the upper ones linear, undivided. Fl. 

 in unilateral leafy clusters, all nearly sessile, drooping or pen- 

 dulous, externally cottony, ovate-oblong, not hemispherical. 

 Inner scales of the calyx almost naked, with a broad membra- 

 nous edge. Florets tawny; those of the circumference very, 

 few. Recept. naked, small. 



Our variety y, found by Dale, was suspected by Ray himself to be 

 either the same with j3, or with the following species j so that it 

 appears to have been, at any rate, very little known, and hardly 

 entitled to rank even as a variety. 



