ARTEMISIA CANDICAXS.
Stern stout, nearly I m. high, tomentose, branched ; leaves pinnately or twice pinnately divided into oblong segments, tomen tose on both sides, grayish above, white beneath ; heads sessile in clusters in a compound interrupted spike, 5-8 mm. in diameter ; bracts oval, scarious-margined and tomentose.
It somewhat resembles A. acsii clatior T. S. G. in habit but differs in the leaves, which are tomentose on both sides and have shorter not acuminate segments, and in the somewhat larger, strictly sessile heads with tomentose bracts.
Type: J. H. Flodman, no. 882,1896, from Little Belt Moun tains. •