G6 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Var. 3, Galllca. 
Plate DCCXXXV. 
Reich. Tc. Fl. Cerm. et Helv. Vol. XVI. Tab. }I XXXIV. Fig. 1. 
A. Gallic!., WiUd. D. C. Prod. Vol. VI. p. 102. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. p. 135. 
Branches of the panicle erect. Anthodes erect. 
In salt marshes and by the banks of ditches, by the sea, and 
tidal rivers. Not uncommon in England, rare in Scotland, though 
extending as far North as Forfar and TTigtonshire. Vars. a and 3 
usually growing together, and about equally common. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Autumn. 
Eootstock woody, flexuous, branched or simple, producing 
barren-shoots and flowering-stems, which are curved and almost 
woody at the base, then erect, 9 to 20 inches high, unbranched up to 
the panicle. Leaves of the barren shoots and lower part of the stem 
bipinnate, those of the upper part pinnate, the uppermost simple, or 
with a few segments at the base. Anthodes considerablv longer than 
broad. Inner phyllaries broadly searious. Elorets yellowish or 
reddish, usually five in number. Style with the branches terminated 
by semicircular disciform ciliated stigmas. Plant varying much in 
pubescence, generally quite hoary. 
Var. 3 has the branches usually shorter and more compactly 
flowered as well as erect; but there is no other character by 
which it may be separated from var. a. Both varieties are in fact 
very variable. 
Sea Wormwood. 
French, Armoise Maritime. German, Meerstrands fieifuss. 
This plant is found on salt marshes and moist cliffs. It has acquired a reputation 
for fattening cattle, from the fact that animals feeding on the pastures where it grows 
gain flesh ; but it is probably the richness of the pasture itself, and not the presence of 
the wormwood, that produces this effect. 
Withering tells us that it was formerly an ingredient in distilled waters, and was 
at one time beaten up with thrice its weight of sugar, and formed into a conserve. It 
possesses the same properties as the former species, but in a loss degree. Withering 
quotes Threkeld, who says, that in "Ireland the country people make it into sheaved 
ami bring it in cars out of the adjacent counties of Meath and Louth to Dublin, of 
which alehouse keepers make their purl, great consumption of which is made in winter 
mornings." 
Ti:,nr, III.— GNAPM .V1JE.1L 
Leaves alternate. Anthodes generally heterogamous and 
discoid. Florets all tubular, the exterior ones generally filiform 
