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ellipsoid or sub-obovoid, faintly striate ; pappus none. — Disteib. About 
240 species in the north temperate regions mostly of the Old World. 
Aetemisia vulgaeis, Linn. Sp. PL 848. A small shrub ; stems as 
thick as a goose-quill, brown when dry, sub-glaucous and with sparse 
white pubescence. Leaves membranous, varying much in shape and 
size, those near the base several inches long, large pinnatipartite or 
bi-pinnatipartite, the pinnules oblong, the ultimate lobes entire with 
sub-aristate apices, leaves of the stem diminishing in size upwards, 
laciniate, and passing near the apex into simple linear bracts less than 
•5 in. long ; all glabrous on the upper surface and white adpressed- 
pubescent on the lower. Meads about '15 in. long, cylindric or narrowly 
campanulate, sessile, solitary or in small clusters, in axillary sub-secund 
spikes of varying length, the upper part of the stem forming a long 
spike. Involucral bracts only 5 or 6, broadly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 
the inner scarious. Corollas glabrous. DC. Prod. V. 112 ; Boiss. PI. 
Orient. III. 371 ; Boxb. PI. Ind. III. 420 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 161 ; 
Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 325. A. indica, Willd. ; DC. l.c. 114; Boxb. 
PI. Ind. III. 419 ; Wight Ic. 1112 ; Wall. Cat. 3293. A. dubia, Wall. 
Cat. 3307 ; DC. l.c. 110. A. myriantha, Wall. Cat. 3297; DC. l.c. 112. 
A. paniculata, Boxb. PI. Ind. III. 418. A. leptostachya, DC. l.c. 113. 
A. grata, Wall. Cat. 3294 (in part ) ; DC. l.c. 114. A. lavandulcefolia, 
DC. l.c. 110. 
In all the provinces, near cultivation, not common and probably 
introduced. — Disteib. Europe, Northern Asia, India, mountains of 
the Malayan Archipelago. 
23. Ceepis, Linn. 
Annual or perennial herbs, glabrous or hairy, hairs all simple. 
Leaves alternate, radical or cauline, the latter often stem-clasping, 
entire toothed or pinnatifid. Heads pedunculate, solitary, fasciculate 
or corymbose, yellow or red, homogamous, ligulate. Involucre cylindric 
or campanulate ; bracts either multi- seriate and regularly imbricate, or 
the outer smaller and shorter than the single series of inner ; base 
of midrib often thickened after flowering ; receptacle flat, rarely 
concave, naked or shortly fimbrillate. Corollas ligulate, with broad 
5-toothed apices. Anthers syngenesious, their bases sagittate, the 
auricles acute or shortly setaceous. Cypselas more or less fusiform or 
oblong, rarely short and cylindric, often slender, glabrous or scaberulous, 
10- to 20-ribbed, the apex narrowed or beaked ; pappus usually 
copious, short or long, the hairs simple, soft, usually silvery, rarely 
brownish and stiff or brittle. — Disteib. Species about 10, chiefly in 
the northern regions of the Old World. 
