PL ex. cal. 39. COMPOSITE, C. 212. Artemisia. 449 
XXXVII. 212. ARTEMISIA. Hippocrates. Mugwort . 
Periclme ovate or roundish; scales imbricate, oblong, 
pressed close; calatkides flosculous ; flowers all fertile; of 
the centre hermaphrodite, funnelshape, 5-lobed; of the cir- 
cumference few, female, awlshape, not toothed ; cUnant/ms 
conical, tubeiculate, naked; akenia uniform, ovate ; pappus 0. 
— Stem herbaceous, or undershrubby ; leaves mostly many- 
cut. 
1. Artemisia campestrls. Field mugwort,. 
Stem procumbent, branched, rodlike ; root-leaves woolly, 
pinnate, lobes 3-cut; stem-leaves bristleshape, bald; cala - 
ifiides ovate-globose, pendulous. 
Abrotanum campestre, Raii Syn. 190, 1 ; Ger. em. 1106,5; Park. 94. 
Artemisia campestris, Lin. S. P. 1185. 
Dry sandy heaths ; perennial ; August. 
Root fusiform ; leaves rather fleshy ; calatkides racemous ; 
flowers brownish green. 
2. Artemisia ccerulescens . Bluish mugwort . 
Stem rather shrubby, branched ; leaves woolly, lanceolate, 
not in the least cut; root-leaves cut; calatkides oblong, 
cylindrical, panicled, drooping. 
Artemisia marina, Ger. em. 1104, 3. 
Artemisia eserulescens, Lin. S. P. 1189. 
Sea mugwort. 
Sea-shores; perennial; August. 
Root fibrous ; stem round, panicled ; leaves petioled, 
woolly on both sides ^ racemes simple, upright ; calatkides 
small. 
3. Artemisia vulgaris. Common mugwort. 
Stem herbaceous ; leaves pinnatifid, cut, beneath tomen- 
tose, above blackish green ; uppermost undivided, linear, 
lanceolate ; calatkides nearly sessile, oblong, upright * peri- 
eline tomentose. 
Artemisia vulgaris, Raii Syn. 190, 1 ; Park. 90; Lin. S. P. 1188. 
Artemisia, mater her'oarum, Ger. em. 1103, 1. 
Artemisia minor, Park. 91. 
Ruins and waysides; perennial; August. 
Root woody ; stem upright, panicled ; leaves petioled ; 
racemes upright, simple, leafy ; calatkides ovate. — Herb 
aromatic, in decoction cures the ague ; leaves in powder 
four times a day, useful in hysteric fits, after assafoetida and 
ether had been tried in vain. 
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