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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 833 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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

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