Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

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a white cotton down: the flowers grow in com-
pound nodding fplkes, each having three female
florets in the rim : the receptacle is naked.
The plant has a fl:rong fcent of marum or cam-
phor.
** EreEiie herhacea, foliis comtofitls.
ARTEMISIA foliis compofitis multifidis, floribus
fubglobofis pendulis ^ receptaculo villolb. ^p. pi.
1188. (Ger. em. 1096. /. i. FeL herb. t. 20./. i.
Moris, hiji.f. 6. t. i.f.i. ordinis infer lor is. Gme~
lin.Sibir. II. p. 129. /. 63. Blackwell. t. 16.;
Common Wormwood. AngUs.
In wafle places, and by way-fldes, as about Aher-
lady^ and the Slueen's-Ferry^ &:c. Dr. Parfom.
li.VlU.
The ftalk is two feet high, angular and branch'd :
the leaves are of a hoary green on the upper
fide, and cover'd with a white fatin down un-
derneath, are foft to the touch, and pinnated :
the primary pinn^ are divided into two lobes, the
fecondary are bifid, trifid, quadrifid, and even
pinnatind, the extreme fegments being obtufely
lanceolate : the flowers are yellow, pendulous,
and grow fix or feven in a fpike at the fummits
of the branches, all leaning on the fame fide,
and one only on a peduncle, which peduncle is
longer than the calyx., but fliorter than the fub-
tending leaf: the fcales of the calyx are fmooth,
five in number, the exterior ones longefi: and
H h 2 narrowelt.