466 SYNGENESIA: POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 



mach, for which reafon the young leaves in the 

 fpring have receiv'd a place among the culinary 

 herbs, their juice being an ingredient In puddings, 

 tanfies, and other dainties. It is rarely ufed in 

 medicine, tho' extoll'd as a good emmanagogue. 

 A drachm of the dry'd flowers has been found 

 very beneficial in hyfterics arifing from fuppref- 

 fions. The feeds and leaves were formerly in 

 confiderable efteem for deftroying worms in chil- 

 dren, and are reckon'd good in colics and flatu- 

 lencies. In fome parts of Sweden and Lapland 

 a bath with a decodtion of this plant -is made 

 ufe of to afllfl: in parturition, 



ARTEMISIA. Gen. pi 945. 

 RecepL fubvillofum vel nudiufcuJum. Pappus nul- 

 lus. CaL imbricatus fquamis rotundatls, conni- 

 ventibus. Cor, in ambitu feminas, obfolctas, ion- 

 go ftylo donatse. 



'^ Frocumbentes ante florefcentiam, 

 maritima i, ARTEMISIA foliis multipartitis tomentofis, race- 

 mis ccrnuis, flolcuHs fcminieis ternis. Sp. pL 

 1186. (Ger, em, 1099./. i. Moris, hijl. f, 6. /. 2. 

 /. \g & 2Q) 

 Sea Wormwood. Jnglis, 



Upon the fea-fliores, but not very common, as up- 

 on the coafl: by Guilion-Loch. Dr. Parjons, %, 

 IX. 

 The root and bafe of the Ilalks are of a tough 

 woody texture, and the whole plant cover'd with 



a white 



