Artemisia

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

a festival celebrated at Syracuse, Sicily, in honor of Artemis, or Diana. It lasted three days, during which feasting and amusements of various kinds were incessantly kept up. Festivals bearing the same name, and dedicated to the same goddess, were held in different parts of Greece, chiefly at Delphi, Ephesus, and Cyrene.