COMPOSITE FAMILT: 189 



woody at base, twice or thrice pinnately parted leaves with lanceolate lobes, and 

 nodding hemispherical heads. 



A. vulgaris, MUGWORT of Eu. ; in old gardens and roadsides, with 

 pinnatifid leaves green above and cottony-white beneath, their lance-lihear 

 divisions mostly cut and cleft, and small heads in open panicles. 



A. IiUdoviciana, Westekn M., is wild from Michigan W. and S. "W., 

 with lanceolate leaves mostly cottony-white on both sides, many of them entire 

 or mei'cly toothed, and larger heads in narrow or spike-like panicles. 

 * * Leaves (and whole plant) smooth and green or nearly so, 

 1- Not veryjine orjindy cut. 



A. biennis, Biennial Wormwood. Gravelly banks and shores N. W.v 

 extending E. along railroads; l°-3° high, with small greenish heads much 

 crowded in the axils the once or twice pinna:tifid leaves, their lobes linear, in the 

 lower cnt-toothed. ® ® . 



A. Draciinculus, Takragon, is sparingly cult, from Eu. for the ai-o- 

 matic (lance-linear entire) leaves, used as a condiment, y. 



■*- -^Very fine thread-like or capillary divisions to the ,1 -^S~pinHately' divided 

 leaves : heads loosely panicled. 



A. Abrotanum, Southernwood, from S. Eu. ; cult, in gardens forthe 

 pleasant-scented foliage, 3° - 5° high, woody-stemmed. 11 



A. caud^ta, is a wild Wonnwood aloiig the sandy coast and lake shores. 

 2° -4° high. ® 



13. PILAGO, COTTON-ROSE. (Latin name, from the cottony hairS.) 



F. Germ^nica, German C. or Hekba Impia of the old herbalists, 

 branches with a new generation of clustered heads rising out of tlie parent clus- 

 ter at the top of the stem (as if undutifully exalting themselves) ; stems 5' - 10' 

 high, crowded with the lanceolate erect and entire cottony leaves. Old dry 

 fields from New York S. ; fl. summer and autnnin. ® 



14. EEECHTHITES, FIHEWEED. (Ancient name of some Ground- 

 sel, after £rec/i(Ae«s.) Fl. summer and antumn. g) 



E. hieracifdlia, one of the plants called ^ireweed, because springing 

 up where woods have been cleared and ground burned over, especially N. : very 

 rank and coarse herb, often hairy, 1° - 5° high, with lanceolate or oblong cut- 

 toothed leaves, the upper with aurieled clasping base, and panicled or corymbed 

 heads of dull white flowers, in fruit with copious white and very soft downy 

 pappus. 



15. GNAPHALIUM, EVERLASTING, IMMORTELLE, CUB- 

 WEED. (Name from Greek, meaning lock of wool.) El. summer and 

 autumn. 



§ 1 . Wild species, with crowded small heads, the slender pistillate flowers very 



numerous and occupying several rows. 

 » Scales of the involucre white or ydlmoish-wliite : stem erect, 1 ° - 2° high : heads 

 many, corymbed. t'ommon in old fields, copses, Sj-c. 



G. polyc6phalum, Common Eteklasting. Leaves lanceolate, with 

 narrowed base and wavy margins, the upper surface nearly naked ; the perfect 

 flowers few in the centre of each head. ® 



G. deeiiriens, Deourrent E., equally common from New Jersey to 

 Michigan and N. ; leaves lance-linear, cottony both sides, the base partly clasp- 

 ing and extending down on the stem ; many perfect flowers in the centre of each 

 head. 2/ • 



: » * Scales of the involucre tawny-purplish or whitish, not at all showy or petal- 

 like : heads small, crowded in sessile clusters : stems spreading or'ascendino. 

 3' -20' high. ® 1 J J, 



G. Uligin6sum, Low Cudweed. A most common, insip;nificant little 

 weed in wet places, especially roadsides, with lanceolate or linear leaves, and in- 

 conspicuous heads in terminal clusters. 



