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Show Of the Hiftorie of Plants, 3 Artemifia marina, Sea Mugwort. 45 i Bd. £ Artemifia Jj foliai Cora od dif: fi marina ramulus,foljaintecre [etta exprimens, A branch fhewing the cut and vncutleaues, or 8, Of the Hiftory of Plants: 110g heiuyceofblacke Poppy. Many other fantafticall deuices inuented by Poets are tobe feene in as oftheantient Writers, tending to witchcraft and forcerie, and the great difhonour of Godywherefore Idoofpurpofe omit them, as things vnworthie of my recording, or your review- a ing, 2 all ¢ Mugwort poundwith oyle of fweet almonds, and Jaid to the ftomaeke as a plaifter,cureth . Pe the paines and gricfes ofthefame. the contraGtion or drawItcarcth the fhakings of the ioynts, inclining to the palfie,and helpeth ing together ofthe nerues andfinewes. } therewere formerly wo defcriptions of the Artemifia marina ; wherefore I omittedthe former, being the moregnperfed. Crap. 4540 Of Sothernwood. @ The Kindes. Iiiorides affirmeth that Sothernwoodis of two kindes, the female and the male , which are cuery where knowne by the namesof the greater and oftheleffer : befides thefe there is 4 third kinde, whichis of a fweeter {mell, and lefler than the others, and alfo others of a baflaadkinde, = 11 Abrotanumfomina arborefcens.s Female Sothernwood. 2 Abrotanum mas. Male Sothernwood. @ The Place. The common Mugwort Stoweth wilde in fundry places aboutthe borders offields, about high waies, brooke fides, and fuchlike places. Sea Mugwort groweth about Rie-and Winchelfea caftle,and at Portfmouth by the Ile of Wight. ; ; Theyfloure in Iuly and Augutt. G The Time, © The Names. _Mugwortis called in Greeke ‘4yunia : and alfo in Latine Artemifia,which nameit had of drte- mifia Queene of Halicarnaffus, and wife ofnoble an /olus Kino ofCaria, who adoptedit for her owneherbe : before that it was called mrs, Parthenis, as Pliny writeth. Apuleins affrmeth that it waslikewife called Parthenion ; who hath very many namesfor it,and many ofthemate placed E Diftorides among the baftard names : moftof thefé acree with the right Artemifja, and divers : os herbes which nowand then are numbred among theMugworts rit is alfo oe ater Herbarum :in high. et a $i ifh and Italia, Bef Wipe ysoetc as(Sen a andcommonMugwor, = Se @ The Temperature. Mugwort is hot anddry inthe fecond degree, and fomewhat aftringent. a ii Pee oe ‘ : © The Vertues. Muswort doth properly cu re womens difeafes. iteth, that it bringeth downe the termes,the birth, and the after-birth. led as mannerit helpeth the mother, and thepaine of the matrix, to be boy iti c = : ae : atthe bathis ols a ; and that being putvp with myrrh, it is of like force that the eee sane that the tender topsare boiledand drunk for the fame infitmities ; and that theyare app" D " Pie os a pulteffe ro thethare, to bring downe the monethly courfe. faith, that th Pemy _ wear ifomneffe at a I 4 tied about himtee vayfarings man that _ hath the herbe Pee who hath it about him can be hurt by no poyfonfome Lica boy|? nor byany wilde bea Eneither yet by the Sunir felfe ; andalfo that itis drunkeagain fn G TheDefcription, : He greater Sothernwood by carefull manuring doth oftentimes grow vp 1 Manner ofa A thrub, and commethto beas high as aman,bringingforth ftalkes an inch thicke, Or ttofwhich{pring very many {prigs ot branches, fet about with leanes diuerlly iagged Y indented, fomewhat white, and ofacertaine ftrong {melLsin ftead offloures,little fmal : ea buttons do hang onthe fprigs, from the middle tothe very top, of colour yellow,and at ‘tuthe into feed, The root hathdivers firings, : ; Sas a The |