ARTEMISIA. 
451 
or hemispherical. — Linn. Sp. 1257 ; FI. Dan. t. 341 ; Lam. Diet, 
ii. 136, 111. t. 700. f. 1 ; Pers. Syn. ii. 464 ; Spr. Syst. iii. 497 ; 
DC. vi. 78 ; Koch 407 ; RFG. xvi. t. 107. ff. i, ii ; Willk. et 
Lange FI. Hisp. ii. 91. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, rrr. P ta do 
Sol, moist gutters in the Plane-tree Passeio or walk at the back 
of the beach, June, July 1865, S r J. M. Moniz. — St. succulent 
thickish procumbent and copiously rooting downwards, the 
ends ascending, sparingly branched 6-12 in. long. L. shining 
somewhat fleshy 1-2 in. long laciniato-pinnatifid upwards, 
sharply inciso-serrate downwards, clasping the stem with a 
short striated membranous complete sheath 1-2 lines long at 
their base. Heads 3 or 4 lines in diam. golden-y. rayless, on 
solitary terminal erect ped. 1-2 in. long. Inv. shallow saucer- 
shaped. Recept. flattened. 
Tribe VI. Artemisiece Less. 
8. Artemisia L. 
Sect. JEuartemisia Gr. et Godr. Cor. inserted at top of ovary. 
Stigmas filiform or simply clavate. (Recept. villous or 
hairy ; inv. hemispherical ; fl. of disk perfect.) 
1. A. argentea Herit. Losna. 
Skr. erect silky silvery-grey or w. ; 1. short and broad sub- 
palmately 1-2-pinuatisect, the segm. linear or linear-lanceolate 
obtuse or subobtuse ; heads stalked cernuous rather large de- 
pressedlv globose or convex-hemispherical, in unilateral erect ra- 
cemes forming large close crowded manv-fld. p} r ramidal or thyr- 
soidal terminal leafy-bracteate panicles : scales of inv. all wholly 
herbaceous silkv-tomentose obtuse, the outer oblong, inner spa- 
thulate or oval rounded. — Herit. Sert. Angl. 22. t. 28 ; DC. ! vi. 
120. A. arborescens Buch 194. no. 253 (not Linn.) — Skr. per. 
Mad. reg. 1, rr ; PS. ccc formerly, now rr ; ND. ccc ; GD. r. 
Here and there in cottage gardens about Funchal &c., but 
scarcely in Mad. wild except on sea-clilfs towards the S.W. of 
the island from Rib. Brava westward, at Paul do Mar, P ia do 
Pargo, &C. In PS., formerly (1828-1832) almost covering in 
low bushes the dry stony limestone soil forming the surface of 
the flat-topped Ilheo Debaixo and I. de Cirua, it is now con- 
fined to the sea-cliffs (as in the Desertas), having been all cut 
up for fuel by the Limestone-quarrv-men. It occurs also rarely 
on the flanks of Pico Branco. May- Aug. — A low shr. 11-3 ft. 
high, altogether w. or hoary-grey with a bitter aromatic scarcely 
pleasant scent when strongly rubbed or bruised, but not other- 
wise perceptible. Branches somewhat thick and brittle woody 
stiff subflexuose w. and leafy upwards. L. crowded spreading 
