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Bhnthium album hath ftraight and vpright 2 £ pright ftalkes, tlalkes, afoor aioot high, high, befewi befctwith btoad leaues,but very deeply cut or clouen,in fhewlike vntothofeof the great Daify,by white of colour :at the top ofthe ftalkes,- out of {caly‘ heads,ea as jis %netinelt gt c > ft; Ay floures,compact of {ix fmal] white Jeaues : the root is long,with fomefibres annexedvntoit, ae 2 Thiskinde of Wormwood Gefwer and that learned Apothecarie Valerandus Donrar call d Abjinthinm Egyptium: the leaues of this plant are verylike to the léaues of Trichoneanes whiok is ourcommonMaidenhaire, ofa white colour,> cueryJ {mall leafe ftandingg one ap : wen one oppofi oppofiteRv againg ax i nother, and ofa ftrong fauour. 3 This VVormwoodwhich Dodonens calleth Abfinthinminodorum, and Infipidum, is very like vnto the fea VVormwood,in his fmall and tender leaves: the ftalke beareth flowers alfo like ynto the forefaid Sea-W ormwood,but it is ofa fad or deep colour, hauing neither bitter tafe nor ‘iy fauour at all;whereupon itwas called,and that very fitly, Abfinthiuminodorum,ot Abfint bel) dum :in Englith,foolith,or vnfauory wormwood. + Dodoreus faith not that his ALfuthinm infpi- =" on the Hitto f ms —— : Eee ea France is accounted to h nget belo which d erlan countrey where irgroweth ; but that part of Swiff nceof Santon is far fromit: for thisisa part proui e andth ; ae the nd beyo ofthe Romans to be floud Gerond Northw ard; therefore 6 2% LirB. 4 Abfinthiuin marinum, Abrotanifaminefacie, Small Lauander Cotton, c 1103 th the of Guines, fcituate ypon the coalt of the Ocean, benca Alps : but if it the Santons, groweth farre from the Santon Wormwood, if it hate his name from the Santons, from name his not it bath then or0iv neereadioyning to the Alps, The Temperature and V ertucs, \ fl what dry. White Wormwood is hot and fome much 4 andtafte,fois it fearfe of any hot qualitie Valanorie Wormwood, as it is without {mell had, vfed in phyficke where the others may be Jeflehath it any {couringfacultic. Thefeare not of themparticipating both of fome ; wood Worm s of kinde erate degen or peingasit were wilde theforme and fmell ofother plants, ‘eare which way heze fa ce Wormwood ne l hx neeirioxslooke into rin the firft of theriexe chapter faae om the ficft place, bythe mame of u4b/isthiim arb vefcens,is either h= fathe w th, or one very is ace tmthte Names, bur no whereelie in the Chaprer, Dodenans, Pempe.. lib cap.5- where aac cidle of _Abjintbiim Santonicam :andia i the list defeription {ofthis Wormewood. oe is like the fea wormwood,but that it isvery like our common broadleaued V Vormwood, and indeed itis, and that fo like, that itis hard tobe difcerned therefrom, but onely by thewantof bitterneffeand fmell. ¢ 3 Abjinthinm” inodorum. Vafauorie V Vormwood. ry af Plants: —_— Liz.2 Cusp. 453 1 Ariemifia,mater Herbarum. Common Mugwort. OfMugnorts @| The Defiriptions i "He firftkinde of Mug wort hath broadleaues, very much cut or clouen like the leaues of common ‘Wormewood,but larger,ofa darke greene cojour aboue, and hoarie vnderneath: the ftalkes are long and ftraight, and full of branches, whereon do grow {mall round buttons, which are the floures, fmelling like Marierome when they waxripe: the rootis great,and ofa wooddie fubftance. 2 The fecond kinde of Mugwort hath 4 great thicke and wooddy root,from whence arife fuidry branches ofa reddith colaut ; befer full of fmall and fine iagged leaties , veric like vnto fea Sothernwood: the feed groweth alongft the fmall twiggy branches, like ynto little berries, which fall not fromtheir branches ina long timeafter they beripe. + I know not howthis differeth fromthe former, but only in the colour of the ftalk and floures, whichare redor purplith ; whereas the former , is morewhitith. = 2 Thereisalfoanother Mugwort, which hath tany bratiches rifing from a wooddie toot, ftanding vpright in diftances one from fanafhie colour, befet with léaues > fea Purflane ; about the low top ofthe 4 This kindeof Sea-wormwoodis a fhrubby and wooddie plant, in face and thei” wet E Lauander Cotton,ofa ftrong fmel;hauing floures like thofe of the commonwormivood Acthe fhew like thofe of Lauander Cotton:the rootis tough and wooddie. q The Place, Thefe plants are ftrangers in England,yet we hauea few ofthem in Herbarifts gardens : J 3 | The Time, The tins¢ oftheir flouring and {cedingis referred to rhe other wormyoods. : @ The Names. ? +. comme The white wormwood Comradus Ge(nerus nameth Seriphinmfeminaand faith, thatitis it Santoncx™ for.as DiNt ly called Herba alba, or white herbe : another had rather name beareth his name Oo -- , and faith , Santonicwm is found in France beyond the, Alpes ‘branchies the with great and deepe iago: ftancé; and of awhitith col e Abvd;anum marinam,and intatte pleafant fi Ke vote Kee zingé vaded, there followeth me yan diyellow ; for fome o8 then ities of this plant are ofeworforts comaion Wormivood. ’ f it. 47#¢ 1 1narrow, Lik cethofeof Launder (whence Clefus hath called exprefapare in you may fee. it inor diuided almot tothe middie rib ; as Bheage ap aieate Cut s both the whole,as alfothe divided leares. hich atte byit (elfe,w thewe |
