COMPOSITE. 



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Flower-heads small, narrow-ovoid or 

 nearly cylindrical, erect or drooping, 

 each containing from 3 to 5 or 6 florets, 

 all tubular and fertile. 



In sandy wastes, generally near the 

 sea, occupying large tracts of country 

 near the Caspian and Black Seas, and 

 extending ronnd the Mediterranean, and 

 along the Atlantic, up to the coasts of 

 Britain, where however it is not very 

 frequent. Fl. autumn. 



Fig. 519. 



3. Common Artemisia. Artemisia vulgaris, Linn. 

 (Fig. 520.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 978. Mugwort.) 



Stock thick and woody, but short, 

 with erect flowering stems, 2 to 3 feet 

 high. Leaves once or twice deeply 

 pinnatifid, with lanceolate, pointed lobes 

 or segments, coarsely-toothed or lobed, 

 green and glabrous above, very white 

 underneath. Flower-heads ovoid, with 

 cottony involucres, forming a long ter- 

 minal panicle, each head containing 12 

 to 20 complete florets and a few female 

 ones, all fertile. 



On roadsides and waste places, either 

 indigenous or introduced, over nearly 

 the whole area of the genus. Common 

 in Britain. Fl. end of summer, and 

 autumn. The A. ccerulescens (Eng. Bot. 

 t. 2426) is a garden variety of this 

 plant. Fig. 520. 



