ARTEMISIBÆ

(Lat.), n. f. pl. A®r-te?m-i2s-i(e)’e?-e(a3-e2), Fr., artemisiées, Ger., Artemesieen. A division or subtribe of composite plants belonging to the tribe Senecio nideæ and including Artemisia, Tan acetum, and 1 or 2 other genera. As made by De Candoile, it comprised genera with discoid heterogamous or homogamous heads, the ray florets of which are usually female and are either uniseriate or multiseriate, and the disc florets hermaphrodite with a cylindroid corolla and a hifid style. The achænia are non-alate and are rarely or never (?) flat_ob-compre ed, and the rece] le is devoid of pales. The A. of Le ing was a much larger division of plants and comprised the sections San to lineæ, Cotuleæ, A than a sieæ, Artemisiew (= nearly the A. of De Candolle), Hippieæ, and Eriocephaleæ. [B, 170, 197, 214.].