SYNGENESIA POLYGAM. SUPERF. Artemisia, 235 



leafy. Fl. very numerous, light reddish purple, in a thick, ter- 

 minal, clustered corymb. Florets about five, or six, with pro- 

 jecting, long, cloven styles : silvery bristles crown the germen 

 and seed, separating the florets. Plant slightly aromatic. Leafl. 

 towards the point very entire. Fl. sometimes white. Germ. 

 with minute, shining globules. In young plants, the upper Is. 

 simple. 



Decoction of the roots violently emetic, and cathartic ; a rough 

 medicine in jaundice, and dropsy. An infusion of the plant used 

 to foment ulcers with by Boerliaave. Toiirnefort mentions that 

 the Turks cure the scurvy with this plant. One ounce of the 

 juice, or one drachm of extract, a dose. Lightf. See G. E. 



SYNGENESIA POLYGAM. SUPERFLUA. 



* Discoid flowers (rayless.') 



TANACE'TUM. Tansy. 



T. vulgare. Common T. Leaves doubly wing-cleft, 

 deeply saw-toothed, naked. E. B. 1229. Tanace- 

 tum. G. E. 650. 



Hilly pastures, hedges, road sides* Shotover Hill. Southleigh. Sh. 



Per. July. 



Stems erect, one or two f. Ls. numerous, alternate. Fl. in a 

 terminal, flat corymb, yellow. Perfect florets of disk tubular, 

 five-cleft: of the ray, few, strap-shaped, with three teeth ; these 

 florets often wanting. 

 Plant strong-smelling, very bitter : the seeds to destroy worms, 



the leaves used to flavour a kind of pudding. A curled 7)ar. found 



in gardens, more grateful to the stomach. One drachm of the 



dried flowers beneficial in hysteria arising from suppressions. 



Lightf. A green dye from this plant. The fly avoids meat rubbed 



with this plant. 



ARTEMI'SIA.' Wormwood, and Mugwort.^ 



A. Absinthium. Common TV. Leaves in many deep 

 segments, clothed with close silky down. Flowers 

 drooping, hemispherical. Receptacle hairy. E. B. 

 1230. Absinthium latifolium sive ponticum. G. E. 

 1096. 



Waste ground, villages. 

 Per. .August. 



' So called from Artemisia, Queen of Halicarnassus, wife of Mausdlus. 

 2 Ang.-Sax. 



