Aetemisia.] composite. 477 



37. ARTEMISIA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 321. 



Herbs or shrubs, usually strong-scented. Leaves alternate, entire 

 serrate or 1-3-pinnatisect. Seads small, solitary or fascicled, 

 racemose or panicled, never corymbose, heterog:amou8 or homoga- 

 mous, disciform. Outer flowers female, 1-seriate, fertile ; bowlla very 

 slender, 2-3-toothed. Dish flowers 2-sexual, fertile or sterile, limb 5- 

 fid. Involucre ovoid subglobose or bemispheric ; bracts fewseriate, 

 outer shorter, margins scarious. Beceptacle flat or raised, naked 

 or hirsute. Anther-bases obtuse, entire. StyU'arms of 2-sexual 

 flowers with truncate usually penicillate tips, often connate in the 

 sterile flowers. Achenes very minute, ellipsoid oblong or subobovoid, 

 faintly striate. Pap;)W5 0.— Species about 150; in noith temperate 

 regions, a few also in S. America. 



Segments of oauline leaves filiform or 



setaceous ; disk-flowers sterile . . 1. A. sco^aria. 



Leaf-segments never filiform or setace- 

 ous : disk-flowers fertile . , 2. A. vulgaris. 



1. A. scoparia, Waldst ^ Kit. Fl. Bar. Bung i, 66 t. 65. F. B. I. iii* 

 323; Watt E. D. ; Collett Fl. 8iml. 266; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 47. 

 A. elegans, Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii, 421. 



A glabrous or more or less pubescent annual or perennial herb, 3-6 ft, 

 high. Stems slender, grooved, usually tinged with purple. Radical 

 leaves lonjr-petioled, 1-3 in. long, l-3pinnatisect, the segments linear J 

 cauline filitorm or setaceous. Heads minute, sessile or on short capil"' 

 lary pedicels, arranged in secund panicled racemes, yellow. Outer fem. 

 flowers fertile, inner hermaphrodite flowers sterile and with larger 

 corollas. Invol-hracts glistening, oblong, obtuse, the margins scarious. 

 Achenes very minute. 



Dehra Dun, Saharanpur and in Sub-Himalayan tracts of Eohilkli»nd, 

 also in Bundelkhand (Edgeworth). Flower during Sept. and 

 Oct. DisTUiB. Punjab Plains and Sindh, and westward to 

 Afghanistan and Cent. Eur. It extends up to 12,000 ft. in W. Tibet, 

 and is found also in China and Japan. In the plains it occurs usually 

 only as an annual, but at high elevations the rootstock becomes woody 

 and perennial. The plant is used medicinally in the Punjab ; it is also 

 eaten by cattle and sheep, 



2. A. vulgaris, Linn. 8p. PI. 848; Boxh. Fl. Ind. iii, 420 ; F^ B. I. iii, 

 325 ; Kanjilal For. FL 8ch. Circ. 210; iOamhle Man. 427; Collett Fl. Siml. 

 266; Coohe Fl. Bomb ii, 147. A. indica Willd. Boxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 

 ^19, A. paniculata, Boxb. I. c. 415.— Vern. Sarmi, samri (Dehra Dun). 

 (Indian Wormwood.) 



A tall aromatic shrub-like herb, 2-8 ft., high, hoary pubescent or tomen- 

 tose. Stems leafy paniculately branched. Lower leaves petioled. 



