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a white cotton down : the flowers grow in com- 

 pound nodding fplkes, each having three female 

 florets in the rim ; the receptacle is naked. 

 The plant has a fl:rong fcent of marum or cam- 

 phor. 



** Ere^a herhace^^ fdiis compojitis, 



dhftnthium ARTEMISIA foliis compofitis multifidis, floribus 

 fubglobofis pendulis •, receptaculo villofo. Sp. pi. 

 1188. (Ger, em, 1096. /. i. Fet, herb. /. 20./. i, 

 Moris, hifl,f, 6. t. i./. i. ordinis inferior is, Gme- 

 lin, Sibir. IL p. 129. /. 63. BlackwelL /. 16 J 



Common Wormwood. Jnglis. 



In wafl:e places, and by way-fldes, as about Aber- 

 lady,, and the ^een^s-Ferry^ &c. Dr. Parfojis, 



-n.YliL 



The (talk is two feet high, angular and branched : 

 the leaves are of a hoary green on the upper 

 fide, and cover'd with a white fatin down un- 

 derneath, are foft to the touch, and pinnated : 

 the primary pinn^ are divided into two lobes, the 

 fecondary are bifid, trifid, quadrifid, and even 

 pinnatifid, the extreme fegments being obtufely 

 lanceolate : the flowers are yellow, pendulous, 

 and grow fix or icven in a fpike at the fummits 

 of the branches, all leaning on the fame fide, 

 and one only on a peduncle, which peduncle is 

 longer than the calyx, but fliorter than the fub- 

 tending leaf: the fcales of the calyx are fmooth, 

 five in number, the exterior ones longefl: and 

 H h 2 iiarrowell. 



