922 SYNGENESIA. SUPERFLUA. Artemisia. 
either sessile or in short branched spikes. Calyx scales few, bluntly egg* 
shaped, approaching, green, slightly downy at the back, the edges 
membranous, whitish, shining. Florets not longer than the calyx. 
Woodw. (those of the disk about twelve, tipped with purple; of the cir¬ 
cumference two or three, awl-shaped, entire, yellow. Sm. E.) Leaves 
thread-shaped, from a quarter to one inch or more in length. Flowers 
axillary. ( Herb neither aromatic nor bitter. E.) 
Field Southernwood. Balks of corn-fields and road sides at Elden, 
Suffolk, and a mile from Barton Mills on the road to Lynn. Ray. Near 
Thetford, on the side of the road to Norwich. Mr. Woodward. (On 
Icklingham heath, near Bury. Sir T. G. Cullum. FI. Brit. E) 
P. July—(Aug. E.) 
A. maritima. (Leaves many-cleft, downy; the uppermost undivided: 
flowers oblong, downy, sessile: receptacle naked. E.) 
( E. Bot. 1706. E.)— Ger. 940. 1— Pet. 20. 2 and 3— Lob. Ic. i. 755. 1— Ger . 
Em. 1099. 1— II. Ox. vi. 2. 20— H. Ox. vi. 2. 19. 
(Whole plant cottony, white, and aromatic. Flowering-branches bent. 
Flowers of the circumference only about three. E.) Leaves vary much 
in their division; the upper generally simple, strap-shaped, blunt. 
Woodw. Blossom brown. ( Calyx downy on the outside, membranous 
at the edge. E.) 
(In page 1706 of E. Bot. are described what are considered by some Bo¬ 
tanists as two distinct species, viz. A. maritima and A. gallica, which 
latter, A. maritima y of FI. Brit, the author states to be more properly 
represented by plate 1001 of E. Bot. The sole distinction, originally 
suggested by Willdenow, seems to be the drooping or upright flower ; or, 
according to Smith, in A. maritima, “ Flowers drooping, sessilein 
A. gallica, “ Flowers erect, partly stalked, of few florets. 5 ’ E.) 
(Rev. Hugh Davies describes a nearly similar var. with pendulous flowers, 
inclining to one side. On a rock below the mill in Bodowen Park, An¬ 
glesey. E.) 
Var. 2. Segments of the leaves very short. 
J. B. iii. a, 177— Barr. 460. 
Sea Southernwood or Wormwood. Sea-shores. Yarmouth, and else¬ 
where on the coast. Mr. W oodward. Sea coast between Rampside and 
Barrow. Mr. Gough. Isle of Walney. Mr. Atkinson. (Garston, near 
Liverpool. Mr. Shepherd. On the shores of Wear, near Hilton Castle, 
Durham. Winch Guide. Frequent about Teignmouth. E.) 
(A. maritima var. gallica, has been observed by Mr. Winch on Willington 
Ballast Hills, Durham ; by Rev. H. Davies on rocks above the sea, 
south-west of Aberffraw, Anglesey; and by Mr. D. Don on the coast 
near Arbroath; also by Mr. Maughan at Peffer burn, and at St. Mary’s 
Isle, with the preceding. In like circumstances, at Sandwich Haven, by 
Mr. Gerard E. Smith. E.) P. Aug.—Sept.* 
* This in its wild state smells like maram or camphor, but in our gardens it is less 
grateful, though still much more so than the next species. It is used as an ingredient in 
distilled waters, and beat with thrice its weight of fine sugar is formed into a conserve. Its 
virtues are the same with those of the next species, but in a weaker degree. Horses eat 
it; cows, goats, and sheep eat it. (Threlkeld informs us that in Ireland the country people 
make it into sheaves, and bring it in cars out of the adjacent counties of Meath and Lovvtji 
to Dublin, “of which alehouse-keepers make their purl, great consumption of which is 
made in winter mornings,” $yn. Stirp, Hibern, 1727. E.) 
