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coiip6sit.'e 



glabrous, succulent, and creeping, with shining leaves and erect 

 peduncles i — 2 in. high. It is naturalised near Birkenhead. 



21. Tanacktuji (Tansy). — Strong-scented herbs or under- 

 shrubs ; leaves scattered, much divided ; heads solitary or corymb- 

 ose, sub-globose, yellow ; bracts membranous at their edges ; 



receptacle convex, 



naked ; florets all 

 tubular ; jruii angu- 

 lar, crowned with a 

 lobed membranous 

 disk. (Name said to 

 be from the Greek 

 atJidnatoii, immortal.) 

 I. T.vulgdre (Com- 

 mon Tansy). — The 

 only British species, 

 2 — 3 feet high; stem 

 angular, leafy ; leaves 

 deeply bipinnatifid, 

 serrate ; heads many, 

 bright yellow, button- 

 like, in a terminal 

 corymb. — Hedges 

 and waste ground ; 

 common. The whole 

 plant is bitter and 

 aromatic, and is not 

 only used in medi- 

 cine, but Avas the 

 principal ingredient in 

 a nauseous dish called 

 Tausv Pudding. — Fl, 

 August, September, 

 rcrcnnial. 



22. A R T E M 1 S I A 



(\^'orm wood). —Herbs 

 and undershrubs with a bitter or aromatic taste ; leaves scattered ; 

 heads small, in racemes or panicles ; hrdets with membranous 

 margins ; recejitdcle naked, narrow ; llorcts all tubular ; no pappus. 

 (Name from Artemis, the Diana of the (h-eeks.) 



I. A. Absinth! uiii ((.'oiiimon \Vormwood). — A bushy plant, i — 

 3 feet high, with silky stems ; leaves twice pinnatifid, with bluntish 

 segments, silky on both sides ; heads hiany, small, nanicled, 



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