[1428] From the Italian semenzina, the diminutive of semenza (seed).
[1429] W. S. Besser in Bulletin de la Soc. imp. des Naturalistes de Moscou, vii. (1834) 31.—A specimen of the plant in question labelled in Besser’s handwriting, with a memorandum that it is collected for medicinal use, is in the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, Kew. It completely agrees with the Semen Cinæ of Russian and German commerce. This remark also applies to a specimen of A. Lercheana Karel. et Kiril. in the same herbarium.
[1430] “Si aliæ Artemisiæ multùm variant, Seriphidia inconstantiâ formarum omnes superant....”—Besser.
[1431] Artemisia No. 3201, Herb. Griffith, Afghanistan, in the Kew Herbarium has capitules precisely agreeing with this Bombay drug.
[1432] Bot. Zeitung, 1 März 1872. 130; Pharm. Journ. 23 March 1872. 772 (abstract).
[1433] Contained in a work by Hieronymus Mercurialis, entitled Variarum Lectionum libri quatuor, Venet. 1570; also in Puschmann’s edition of Alexander ([see Appendix]), i. 238. 240.
[1434] In Brunfels (De vera herbarum cognitione), Argentorati, 1531. 196.
[1435] Maceration in water, which restores the natural shape of the flowerheads, shows that this shrunken, angular form is not found in the growing plant.
[1436] Yet too much stress must not be laid on this character, for as Besser remarks—“periclinii squamæ in uno loco tomento brevi plus minusve canæ, in aliis nudæ, imo nitidæ.”
[1437] As the affected vision, so that objects appear as if seen through a yellow medium. Other effects are recorded by Stillé (Therapeutics and Mat. Med. ii. 641).