Artemisia
3 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Artemisia. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
wormwood; named after Artemis, the Greek goddess, corresponding to the Roman Diana. A genus of plants belonging to the order asteraceæ, or composites. It contains four British species, the A. campestris, or field southernwood; the A. vulgaris, or common mugwort; the A. absinthium, or common wormwood; and the A. maritima, or sea-wormwood. The common wormwood grows luxuriantly among the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain regions. ARTEMISIA I., daughter of Lygdamis, and Queen of Caria, who assisted Xerxes in person against the Greeks, and behaved with such valor that the Athenians offered a reward for her capture, and the Spartans erected a statue to her. Lived in the 5th century B. C. ARTEMISIA II., Queen of Caria, who erected so magnificent a monument to the memory of her husband Mausolus, that every splendid structure of this kind has been since styled a mausoleum. Lived in the 4th century B. C.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
a genus of acrid, bitter, composite plants, so named by Linnaeus. The genus is named for Artemisia, the queen of Caria, who built the famous Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. The worm-wood, the southernwood or oldman, the mugwort, and the sage bushes of the alkaline plains are all related species. An exceedingly bitter, greenish, highly aromatic French liqueur, called absinthe, is produced by steeping wormwood in alcohol and then redistilling. Its excessive use produces vertigo and epilepsy. An alpine artemisia furnishes a yellow dye. The distillation of wormwood oil is carried on in several states of the Union, notably New York , Michigan, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. The shrub is cultivated in rows like corn. The shoots are cut for distillation several seasons in succession. The oil is a dark greenish heavy oil. The yield does not exceed ten pounds of oil to the acre. See Absinthe ; Sagebrush 2026 Editor's Note: This bitter genus yielded a lifesaver: from sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua) comes artemisinin , the frontline malaria drug that has saved millions of lives — a discovery drawn from ancient Chinese medicine that won Tu Youyou the 2015 Nobel Prize. The same genus gives us absinthe's wormwood and the sagebrush of the American West. (Ed: BR 2026-06-22)
1000 Classical Characters (1900)
Daughter of Hecatomnus, and sister, wife, and successor of the Carian prince Mausolus , reigned B. c. 352-350. She is renowned in history for her extraordinary grief at the death of her husband Mausolus. She is said to have mixed his ashes in her daily drink; and to perpetuate his memory she built at Halicarnassus the celebrated monument, Mausoleum, which was regarded as one of the seven wonders of the world , and whose name subsequently became the generic term for any splendid sepulchral monument.