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8. A. Absin'thium, L. (Common Wormwood.) Some- 

 what shrubby. Whole plant silkyhoary. Stem angular, 

 branched, the branches with drooping extremities. Leaves 

 2-3-pinTiately divided, the lobes lanceolate. Heads nodding. 

 —Escaped from gardens in some places. 



9. A. frig'ida, Willd. (Pasture Sage-brush.) A low 

 plant, growing in tufts, white-silky. Leaves dissected into 

 narrowly linear divisions. Heads globose, in racemes. — 

 N.W. 



10. A. ea'na, Pursh. (Sage-brush.) Slightly shrubby, 

 1—2 feet high, much branched, silvery-hoary. Leaves 

 narrow, tapering to both ends, small, mostly entire. Heads 

 clustered in a leafy narrow panicle, few-flowered. — N. W. 



plains. 



11. ERECHTI'TES, Raf. FiREWEED. 

 E. hiepaeifo'lia, Raf. Stem tall, grooved. Leaves 

 sessile, lanceolate, cut-toothed, upper ones claspin". — 

 Common in places recently over-run by fire. 



18. GSAPHA'MIIM, L. Cudweed. 



1. G. deeur'rens, Ives. (Everlasting.) Stem erect, 2 

 feet high, clammy-piibescent, white- woolly on the branches. 

 Heads corymbed. Leaves linear-lanceolate, partly clasping, 

 demrrent. — Fields and hillsides. 



2. G. polyeeph'alum, Michx. (Common Everlasting. ) 

 Stem erect, 1-2 feet high, white-woolly. Heads corymbed. 

 Leaves lanceolate, tapering at the base, not decurrent. — 

 Old pastures and woods. 



3. G. uligino'sum, L. (Low Cudweed.) Stem spread- 

 ing, 3-6 inches high, white-woolly. Leaves linear. Heads 

 small in crowded terminal dusters subtended by leaves. — 

 Low grounds. 



4. G. sylvat'ieum, L. — Erect, usually 9-12 inches high. 

 Leaves litiear. Heads axillary, nearly sessile, forming an 

 erect leafy spike. Scales obtuse with a hrown bar across each 

 near the top. — Atl. Prov. 



