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with the leaves on long stalks. Flowering-stems prostrate, becoming 
more and more upright as they come into flower, 1 to 2 feet long, 
much more slender and rigid than in the preceding species. An- 
thodes y inch across. Florets yellow, the involucre often purple. 
Achenes ohlong, glabrous. Plant dark-green, at length glabrous, 
not aromatic. 
Field Southernwood. 
French, Armoise des Champs. German, Feld Beifuss. 
This plant is destitute of the pleasant scent of the Southernwood of our gardens 
— the " old man" of our childhood — though it belongs to the same family. The real 
Southernwood is a native of Southern Europe and Asia. It was known to the Greeks, 
and was called Abrotonon by them. Its botanical name is Artemisia Abrotanum- 
It is a very old favourite in gardens, and is mentioned by Turner and Gerarde as 
being cultivated in almost every English garden in their time. 
Section IV.-SERIPHIDIUM. Bess. 
Anthodes homogamous ; florets all perfect. Stigmas enlarged 
into a ciliated disk at the summit. Clinanth glabrous. 
SPECIES IV— ARTEMISIA MARITIMA. Linn. 
Plates DCCXXXIV. DCCXXXV. 
Stem herbaceous, erect, paniculately branched. Leaves not 
punctate, more or less cottony on both sides, the lower ones stalked, 
bipinnate, with the ultimate segments linear, blunt, not apiculate. 
Anthodes numerous, 3- to 5-flowered, erect or drooping, sessile, in 
rather dense spikes arranged in a leafy panicle with the branches 
drooping or erect. Periclinc oblong-ovoid; phyllaries unequal, 
more or less cottony on the back, scarious at the edges. Florets 
all perfect. Clinanth glabrous. 
Var. a, genuina. 
Plate DCCXXXIV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. MXXXIX. Fig. 1. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1008. 
A. maritima, Sin. Eug. Bot. No. 1706. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 135. 
Reich. 1. c, p. 75. 
I iritima et A. salina, WWd. D. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 103. 
Branches of the panicle spreading, drooping at the apex. 
Anthodes erect or drooping. 
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