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Florets all tubular; those in the centre perfect or male, those 
of the circumference female, or all perfect. Achcnes fusiform, 
compressed, without ribs; epigynous disk narrower than the top 
of the achene, without a crown or pappus. 
Herbs with alternate generally broad and finely divided leaves. 
Antliod.es small or rather small, generally very numerous, race- 
mose or spicate, usually unilateral; the racemes generally combined 
into panicles. Florets yellow or purplish. 
The name of this genus of plants has various derivations given for it. It is said 
by Borae authors to have been used by Artemisia, Queen of Caria, who gave it her 
name mi honour of its virtues ; others say it derived its name from Artemis, one of 
the names of Diana; while some suppose that the drooping and cypress-like character 
of some of the species procured it the name from Artemisia, the wife of Mausolus. 
Section I.— ABSINTHIUM. Tournef. 
Anthodes heterogamous ; central florets perfect, those of the 
circumference female. Clinanth hairy. 
SPECIES I— ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM. Linn. 
Plate DCCXXXI. 
h. IcFl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. MXXIX. Fig. 1. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. Xo. 1895. 
Stem herbaceous, erect, paniculately branched, with the 
branches ascending-erect. Leaves punctate, finely silky-pubes- 
cent on both sides, nearly white below; the lower ones stalked, 
with the petiole not auricled at the base; lamina twice or thrice 
pinnatipartite, with the ultimate segments flat, oblong-strapshaped, 
blunt, not apiculate. Anthodes very numerous, many-ilowcred, 
globose, shortly stalked, drooping, in rather lax racemes, arranged 
in a leafy panicle with erect branches. Perieline globose ; 
phyllaries pubescent on the back, scarious at the apex, all nearly 
equal in length. Female florets dilated at the base above the 
fruit. Clinanth with Ions* hairs. 
In waste places and by roadsides, especially near the coast. 
Rather rare, but pretty generally distributed, except in the North 
of Scotland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 
llootstock woody, producing barren shoots -with tufts of leaves, 
and tlowei-ing-stems 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves of the barren shoots 
and of the lower part of the stems tri-pinnatipartitc, those in the 
