372 COMPOSITE. Artemisia. 



++++++++ Heads comparatively small (1 to 3 line9 high and broad), variously paniculate 

 12-many-flowered: flowers glabrous: herbs, or occasionally suffrutescent at base, mostly whit- 

 ened (at least when young and on the lower face of the leaves) with cottony tomentum. 



= Tall, with numerous amply paniculate heads, strict stems, and undivided elongated-lanceolate 

 or linear leaves (the lowest sometimes cleft), 3 to 7 inches long: involucre oblong. 



A. Serrata, Nutt. Stems 6 to 9 feet high, very leafy : leaves green and glabrous above, 

 white-tomentose beneath, lanceolate or uppermost linear, all serrate with sharp narrow teeth, 

 pinnately veined, the earliest sometimes pinnately incised : heads rather few-flowered, less 

 than 2 lines long, greenish, hardly pubescent. — Gen. ii. 142. A. Ludoviciana, var. serrata, 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 420. — Prairies and low grounds, Illinois to Dakota; first coll. by 

 Nidtall. 



A. longif olia, Ncjtt. 1. v. Stem 2 to 5 feet high : leaves entire, at first tomeutulose, but 

 usually glabrate above, white tomentose beneath, linear or linear-lanceolate (1 to 5 lines 

 wide), entire ; veins obsolete: heads usually canescent, 2 or 3 lines long. — Torr. & Gray, Fl. 

 ii. 419, not Bess. Rocky banks, Minnesota and Nebraska to Saskatchewan and Montana; 

 first coll. by Nuttall, or by Lewis & Clarke, if perhaps A. integrifolia of Pursh. 



= = Moderately tall or sometimes low : leaves various, more or less cleft or divided, or when 

 entire comparatively short, not filiform or very narrowly linear. Species of very difficult dis- 

 crimination. 



u. Involucre canescently lanate-tomentose. 



A. Ludoviciana, Nutt. A foot to a yard high, simple or with virgate branches, some- 

 times paniculate, completely and somewhat flocculently white-tomentose, or upper face of 

 leaves sometimes early glabrate ' and green : leaves from linear-lanceolate to oblong, some- 

 times nearly all undivided and entire; commonly the lower with a few coarse teeth or 

 incisions, or 2-3-cleft, or irregularly 3-5-parted into lanceolate or linear entire lobes : heads 

 glomerately paniculate, not over 2 lines long: involucre campanulate or in fruit ovoid, 12-20- 

 flowered. — Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 420 (excl. var. serrata) ; Bess. Revis. Artem. in Linn. xv. 

 104; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 404. A. Ludoviciana (with incised or subpinnatifid leaves) & A. 

 gnaphalodes (with undivided leaves), Nutt. Gen. ii. 143. A. integrifolia, Pursh, 1. c, at least 

 in part, not L. A. Purshiana, Bess. Abrot. 59, & Hook. PI. i. 323. A. Douglasiana, Bess. 

 1. c, an entire-leaved less white-tomentose "Western form. A. Hookeriana, Bess. 1. c; the 

 plant taken to be this, of " Rocky Mts., Saskatchewan, &c, Drummond," in herb. Hook., but 

 not ticketed, is a tall and large-leaved form. — Plains and banks, Saskatchewan to Texas, 

 east to Illinois and Upper Michigan, and west to Brit. Columbia, California, and Arizona. 

 The Wild Sage of Lewis & Clarke, at least in part. (Adj. Mex.) 



b. Involucre not lanate (at least when fully developed), from pilose-pubescent or minutely canescent 

 to glabrate or glabrous : divisions of the leaves broad or narrow, but not filiform. 



A. Mexicana, Willd. Intermediate between preceding and following, paniculately 

 branched, 2 to 4 feet high, less tomentose : leaves narrow-lanceolate to linear, commonly at- 

 tenuate, some 3-5-cleft or parted ; radical cuneate, incisely pinnatifid or trifid ■ heads very 

 numerous in an ample loose panicle, many pedicellate, 1 to 2 lines long : involucre campanu- 

 late, arachnoid-canescent or glabrate, largely scarious, 10-20-flowered. — Spreng. Syst. iii. 

 490; Less, in Linn. v. 163; DC. Prodr. vi. 114; Bess. Revis. 1. c. 106. A. Indica,var. Mexi- 

 cana, Bess. Abrot. 56. A. vulgaris, var. Americana, Bess, in Linn. xv. 105. A. vulgaris, 

 var. Mexicans, Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 421. A. Ludoviciana, in part, Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 98. 

 A. cuneifolia? & A. Lindheimeriana, Scheele in Linn. xxii. 162, 163. A. Ludoviciana, var. 

 Mexicana, forma tenuifolia, Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 98, from New Mexico, &c, is a very narrow- 

 leaved variety, with strict panicle. — Dry plains, Arkansas and Texas to Arizona and S. W. 

 Nevada. (Mex.) 



A. vulgaris, L. (Mugwort.) Paniculately branched : leaves white with cottony tomen- 

 tum beneath, green and soon glabrate or glabrous above, usually bipinnately cleft or parted 

 and laciniate, and the lobes lanceolate or coarser; upper sometimes linear : heads numerous 

 and glomerate-paniculate, 2 lines long : involucre mostly oblong-campanulate, scarious, 

 sparingly arachnoid but usually glabrate. — Michx. Fl. ii. 128; Pursh, Fl. ii. 522; Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. 1. c, excl. var. Mexicana. — The common European form is apparently indige- 

 nous at Hudson's Bay, &c, and is naturalized in Canada. (A. Indica, Canadensis, Bess, in 

 Hook. Fl.) and Atlantic States. (Eu., Asia.) 



