Refugium Botanicum.| . (April, 1870. 
TAB. 203. 
Natural Order Composit. 
Sub-order SENECIONIDE. 
Tribe ANTHEMIDE. 
Genus Artemista, Linn. 
Sect. ABRoraNUM, Besser. Capitula heterogama, radii floribus fcemineis, 
disci hermaphroditis, omnibus fertilibus. 
A. Sre~Leriana (Besser, Abrot. No. 66, t. 5). Herba perennis albido- 
incana, caulibus validis erectis, foliis oblongis profunde pin- 
natifidis segmentis plerisque simplicibus obtusis vel subobtusis, 
eapitulis in paniculam anguste thyrsoideam ramis_ inferioribus 
distantibus racemosis dispositis, pedicellis brevibus vel subnullis, 
involucris globoso-campanulatis dense incanis squamis lanceolatis 
floribus subeequantibus.—D. C. Prodr. vi. 119. 
A native of Kamtschatka. 
Root perennial. Stem strong, erect, six to nine inches high 
below the flowers, like the rest of the plant permanently matted 
with close soft white cottony tomentum. Leaves crowded about 
the lower part of the stem, narrowed to a short flat petiole, 
oblong in general outline, the largest two inches long by half as 
broad, deeply pinnatifid, only the largest divisions slightly com- 
pound, the upper segments lanceolate, obtuse or bluntly pointed, 
the texture quite soft and pliable, and both sides permanently 
matted with close white tomentum. Flower-heads in an elongated 
thyrsoid panicle dense upwards, the lower branches distant, 
ascending, racemose. Heads spreading or subcernuous, the upper 
ones subsessile, the lower shortly stalked. Involucre globoso- 
campanulate, about a quarter of an inch deep and thick, densely 
white-cottony, with twelve to fifteen lanceolate scales, the outer 
ones rather shorter than the inner ones and considerably broader. 
Flowers all tubular, the tube glandular, the inner ones _her- 
maphrodite, the outer ones without anthers. 
Tab. 203.— 1, head of flowers; 2, female flower; 3, its style and 
stigmas; 4, perfect flower; 5, anther; 6, style and stigmas of perfect 
flower: all magnified.—J. G. B. 
