[im.) 
ART EMI'S I A*. 
Linnean Class and Order. Syg ENE'siAf, Polyga'mia, Supe'r- 
FLUA+. 
Natural Order. CoMPo'siTAt§, tribe, Corymbi'fer/e [|, Juss. — 
Lindl. Syn. pp. 140 & 142.; Introd. to Nat. Syst. of Bot. pp. 197 
and 199. — Mack. FI. Hibern. p. 142. — Hook. Brit. FI. (4th edit.) 
p. 410. — Compo'sit.-e; subord. Anthemi'de.e, Loud. Hort. Brit, 
pp. 520 & 522. — Synaxthe're.e ; tribe, Corymbi'ff.r.e, Rich, 
by Macgilliv. pp. 454 & 455. — Corymbifer.e, sect. 4. Juss. Gen. 
PI. pp. 177 & 184. — Sm. Gram, of Bot. pp. 121 & 123. ; Engl. FI. 
v. iii. p.334. — Syri.vgales; subord. Asteros.e ; sect. Aste- 
Ri.ViE; subsect. Asterian.e; type, Asteraceas ; Burn. Outl. of 
Bot. pp. 900, 901, 920, 924, & 926. — Compo'sit.e, Linn. 
Gem. Char. Involucrum ( common calyx ) (fig. 1.) egg-shaped 
or round, imbricated ; scales rounded, convex, compact, membra- 
nous at the edges. Corolla (see fig. 2.) compound. Florets (fig. 3.) 
all tubular ; those of the disk numerous, perfect, 5-toothed ; those of 
the circumference few, slender, entire, without stamens. Filaments 
(see fig. 4.) 5, in the florets of the disk only, very short. Anthers 
united into a 5-toothed tube. Germen (see figs. 4 & 5 ) in all the 
florets small, inversely egg-shaped. Style (see figs. 3, 4, & 5.) pro- 
minent, deeply divided. Stigmas cloven or notched, recurved. 
Seed inversely egg-shaped, naked. Receptacle (see fig. 7.) rather 
convex, either naked or hairy. 
The egg-shaped or rounded, imbricated involucrum ; the awl- 
shaped, entire, inconspicuous florets of the ray ; the naked or hairy 
receptacle; and the seed without any pappus ; will distinguish this 
from other genera, with discoid flowers, in the same class and 
order. 
Five species British. 
ARTEMI'SIA ABSI'NTHIUM. Unpleasant Wormwood. Com- 
mon Wormwood. 
Spec. Char. Leaves bipinnatifid, clothed with short, silky 
down ; segments spear-shaped. Flowers hemispherical, drooping. 
Receptacle hairy. 
Engl. Bot. t. 1230. — YVoodv. Med. Bot. v. ii. p. 328 1. 120. — Linn. Sp. PI. 
p. 1188. — Huds. FI. Angl. (2nd edit.) p.358 — Willd. Sp. PI. v. iii. pt. in p. 
1844. — Sm. FI. Brit. v. ii. p. 864. ; Engl. FI. v. iii. p. 408. — With. (7th ed.) v. iii. 
P- 923. — Lindl. Syn. p. 149. — Hook. Brit. FI. p.355. — iMacr. Man. Brit. Bot. p. 
131. — Lighlf. Fl. Scot. v. i. p. 467. — Sibth. FI. Oxon. p. 250. —Abbot’s FI. BedL 
p. 179.- Davies’ Welsh Bot. p 77,-Purt. Midi. FI. v. ii. p. 393. — Belli. FI. 
Cant. (3rd edit.) p. 336. — Hook. FI. Scot, p.239. — Giev. FI. Edin. p. 175. — FI. 
Devon, pp. 136 & 158.— Johnst. FI. Berw. v. i. p. 181. — Winch’s FI. Northnmb. 
and Durh. p.53. — Walker’s FI. of Oxf. p.235. — Loud. Eueycl. of Gard. (new 
edition,) p. 878. parag. 4652. — Bab. FI. Bath. p. 27.— Irv. Lond. Fl. p. 146. — 
Mack. Catal. Pi. of lrel. p. 72. ; Fl. Hibern. p. 151. — Absinthium vulyare. 
Ray’s Syn. p. 188.— Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 451. — Absinthium hit (folium sive 
ponticum, Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 1096. 
Fig. 1. Involucrum. — Fig. 2. Corolla. — Fig. 3. A separate Floret. — Fig. 4. Sta- 
mens and l’istil. — Fig. 5. Germen, Style, and Stigmas. — Fig. 7. Receptacle and 
Involucrum. 
* From Artemis, the Diana, of the Greeks; or, from Artemisia, wife of 
Macsolcs, King of Caria. 
•f See f. 91, n. t. t Sec f. 30, n. t. 
1 See f. 27, a. || See f. 36, a. 
