WORMWOOD  , the popular name for an aromatic See also:

• HERB (Lat. herba, grass, food for cattle, generally taken to represent the Old Lat. forbea, Gr. 4op(3i1, pasture, <0p/3Ew, to feed, Sans. bharb, to eat)

herb known botanically as Arteinisia Absinthium, a member of the See also:

• FAMILY

family See also:

• COMPOSITAE

Compositae . It grows from 1 'to 3 ft. high and is silkily hairy; the leaves are small and much cut, and the See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers are small yellow hemispherical heads among the leaves at the end of the branches . It grows in See also:

• WASTE (O. Fr. wast, guast, gast, gaste; Lat. vastus, vast, desolate)

waste places . It is a tonic and vermifuge and used to flavour drinks . A closely allied See also:

• SPECIES

species is A. vulgaris, mugwort, also an aromatic herb, with larger and broader leaves, which are See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white woolly beneath, and erect woolly heads of reddish-yellow flowers .