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hemispherical, drooping, dull jellow. — Waste ground; common. 

 Bitter and aromatic, and much used in rural districts as a tonic. 

 — Fl. July — September. Perennial. 



2. ^-1. z'«7g(im(Mug\vort).— Taller and more slender than tlie 

 last, and well distingui.shed by the absence- of aromatic odour, 

 and the letwes which are green abo\-e and Avhite with wool be- 

 neath and pinnatifid with acute segments;' heads reddish- or 



TUSSIL.\GO FAKF.^K.^ (C:\':' S-/'t'<y/). 



brownish-yellow. — Hedges, and waste places ; abundant. An 

 infusion of tea of this plant is a rural remed\- -for rheumatism. — 

 Fl. July — September. Perennial. 



3. A. camprslns (Field ^Vormwood). — Sleiiis prostrate until 

 flowering ; leaves pinnatifid, with very slender acute segments, 

 silky when young, but becoming glabrous.. — Sandy heaths in 

 Norfolk and Suffolk : rare. — Fl. August, September. Perennial. 



4, A. inariiima (Sea Wormwood). — Somewhat resembling 



