PI. ex. cal. 39. COMPOSITE, C. 213. Absinth. 451 
Absinthium vulgare. Common wormwood . 
Leaves woolly ; root-leaves triply pinnatifid, blunt ; upper 
leaves pinnatifid, pointed, lobes lanceolate ; uppermost 
leaves undivided ; calathides globose, peduncled, drooping. 
Absinthium vulgare, Rail Syn. 188,1; Park. 98; Geertner , Fr.etSem . 
2, 393. 
Absinthium latifolium sive Ponticum, Ger. em. 1096, 1. 
Artemisia Absinthium, Lin. S. P. 1188. 
Ruins, sea-shores, and cultivated ; perennial ; August. 
Root woody; stem branched, panicled at top; racemes 
upright; calathides pedicelled, drooping, yellowish. — Roots 
warm, aromatic; leaves and flowers bitter, preserve beer 
and destroy its acidity, if already acquired ; stomachic, 
render the milk of a suckling woman bitter, and also mut- 
ton if the sheep feed upon it ; moistened with hot water 
and applied externally, are antiseptic, anodyne, and pre- 
vents the swelling and discolouration of bruises; ashes 
contain much subcarbonate of potash, very free from other 
salts. 
XXXIX. 214. DIOTIS. Desfontaines. Cottonweed « 
Pericline hemispherical ; scales concave, imbricate, 
pressed close, tomentose ; calathides flosculous ; flowers all 
tubular, 5-cut, compressed below, dilated into two pro- 
cesses laterally embracing the ovary ; stigma exserted ; cli- 
nanthus convex, chaffy ; chaffs oblong, concave, tip exter- 
nally woolly; akenium oblong; pappus 0. — Stem tomentose, 
white; leaves alternate, flat, ribless; calathides terminal, 
corymbose; cor olive golden. 
Diotis candidissima. Very-white cottonweed. 
Leaves oblong, blunt, crenate, densely woolly ; peduncle 
corymbose. 
Gnaphalium maritimum, Raii Syn. 180, j, 
Gnaphalium marinum, Ger. em. 640. 
Gnaphalium marinum seu Cotonaria, Park. 687. 
Filago maritima, Lin. S. P. ed. 1, 927. 
Santolina maritima, Lin. Mant. 1. 
Athanasia maritima, Lin. S. P. 1182. 
Diotis candidissima, Desfont. Atlant. 2,261. 
Sea cudweed. Chaffweed. Petty cotton. 
Sandy sea-shores ; perennial ; August and September. 
Root branched ; stem decumbent ; branches upright ; 
leaves alternate, spreading. 
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