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Show Cuap. 37. Theatrum Botanicum. ‘TRripe t T RIBE Ie diftilled wateris fomewhat effectuall,butis much weaker toall the purpofes aforefaid : yet the temples being bathed therewith,it helpeth the paines ofthe head that come of a cold caufe, and dropped into the eyes helpeth to cleare the eyefight. The other Wormewoods, although they have fome properties, yet by how much they want Lhe Theater of Plantes. Sautonitum ALZypliacum. tian Wormevvood. ee C u4r.37. sidsinumfive Sementina rc Abfinthinm Seriphinm five marinnm,e Santonicum. Sea Wormewood, and ftrange Wormewood; Sapa Ecaufe I would not overburden one Chapter with too many forts of Wormewoo X tS ZWil nin ds, I thought it conVe~ é| @)| nientto entreat of the Seakindes, and other ftrange forts, in a Chapter by themfelves, whichare as fol4 loweth, rere 1. Abfinthium Sersphinmfive mariaum Anglicum. Englith Sea Wormewood, The Englifh Sea Wormewoodrifeth up with manyhoary round wooddyftalkes, three or foure foote high at the leaft, having thereon divers hoary white long and narrowleaves, broader and longer than any Sothernwood leaves, or the common Romane Wormewood,but nothingfo largeas the true Romane Wormewood fa kind of faltifh, but notbitter tafte, and ofakinde of unpleafing favour: the flowers are finall and yellow ftanding at the joynts withthe leaves towards the toppes of the branches,as the former common Wormewooddoth, and give the like {mall feed : the roote growethfomewhatdeepe and wooddy, 2. AbjinthinmSeriphinm Narbonenfe, FrenchSea Wormewood. The WBN a WYEs 4 f) VS XXXVII, pa Cuarp. WA CS ofthe bitternefieand aftriction, by fo much weaker theyare for the difeafes aforefaid, French Sea Wotmewood growethnot fo high as the former, nor fo white and hoary, the leaves are {mall long, andfinely cut like them, but thicker, and of an evill coloured greene colour, and ftrong unpleafant favour, and evill tafté : the flowers are yellow, growing as the former doe, and the {eed that followin the fnall round heads alike, 3- Abjnthium Seriphium Germanicum. German e Sea W ormewood. This Germane Sea wormewood isalfo very like the lat, but with fine hoary white leaves, fomewhat finer or {maller, and groweth not fo high: in other things thereis little or no difference. 4. Abfnthium mar'timum Laven tile folie. Lavender leafed Sea Wormewood, 4. Abjinthinm maritimum Lavendulef olio, Lavenderleafed Séa W ormewood. This Wormewood fhooteth forth many flender weake wooddy and brittle ftalkes,bending a littlé down divers hoary white iong leaves , fome ewards, whereon doe grow leaves, having fometimes fomecuts what broader than Lavender or divifions at the bottomes of them, whichis but feldome feene , and in a very few of the lowe ft hext to the ground: thofe that are fet on the ftalkes are {maller, and fometimesare cut or divided at the ends, betweene Lavender and Sothernwood, ofareafonable weake {cent, but unpleafant tafte : ers grow after the fame manner a and ofa yellow colour, and that the common Wormewood the feed is not unlike thereunto alfo, 5+ Abfiathinm Santonicum AExyptia cum, I muft here remember alfo this plant (thatEgyptian Wormewood. is fet forth by cAZatthion /us firtt, and from him Dodonaeus, Lugdunenfis, Tabermontanus Gerar d, and Bauhinus, doeall number itam ong the Wormewoods, ag I Lobe l and Pexalikewife doe, yet muchdoub t whetherit be a Wormewood or no, for that they fay they faw gers height, and the dryed plantit growing with Gefner abouta fins with Valerandus Donrez,, was in thewlike unto Maidenhaire, with whit e leaves fet on both fides, ofa middle ftalke) rather to incite others to obtain eit th 2 hearbe, growing jn E t, Wi » almoft like unto Lavender Sate and Pag fhort branches fetfull of leaves : the feed is {mall and bitter but not extreme ; fomefaith in tafte, he would make it an Abrotanum mas, they might better, as he faith, callita famina : Some al{o iinnohe but the Wormefeed that commeth tat from the Levant tous, fhould red from this plant, but ashe be cathe= faith, he is doubtfull thereof himfelfe, )istTe faith, that it hath all the verthes that the Italian Worme6. Abfinthium Santonicum Alexandriny mm five Seme ntina ee Semen Santtum, Wormefleed Wor me wood, or L sat th apigtrs 34 This Wormewood likewi feis a plant fet full ofbranches, and with very few, and eee on them, at the bottomelike unto the that itfeemeth tobe there withontle finer forts, of anafh colour, but ftored fo plenti ith f{ aves, and wholl yto confi t offeed, which iTerai ith bitter in the naturall places, and ofa reafo . tei nable good and quicke {cent with us, efpecially if they be freth annot * . 2 ? t f $ eld, Abfinthi Seripht} five martini diverfagencra. old, but much ftronger, as it Should feeme byhis relation that tafted it, where it grew and moved one tocaft very forci- bly. The Place. Thefirft groweth neare our Sea Coafts in many places of our Land, as alfo ofthe Low-countries; the fecond neare the Sea Afarfelles, and by Venice alfo; the third in Mifziain Germany : the fourth about the Coats of the Venetian Gulph, and in the Iand of Sia likewife : the fifth is faid to growin Egypt, but Pea and Lobe! doubt thereof: the laft groweth in Syria and Arabia, from whence being brought into divers Chriftian Countries, it hath there fometimes growne, and there fromthefigure takenand fet forth, Rawwelfizs as it is fet downe in the Appendix to Lugdunenfis faith, hee {awit growing about Bethlehem,in the Land of Fury, The Tse, Thefe all lower and {ced when the former forts doe, faving the two la@, which comming out of warme Countries are later thanthe reft withus. The Names. The names of Seor’zscy y ino Seriphium & Santonicum are confounded by many Authors: for the firft is called Abfin- i ‘eriphixm, or marinumby the beft Authors, who call it ,0r Anglicum, yet Camerarius in horto calleth » mm Santoncum the {econdis called by Dodonans Abjinthinm Secriphium Narbonenfe, but Lobel his ntomicum in my judgement is the fame, al-= binus make them different, calling the one Abfin- rium Galiicum, as hee doth the other Abfinthium micum Gallicum: the third Clufies faith hee faw in the Sardenof Aicholzius in Vienna, being fent him from AG/ria, and therentpon he calleth it Abfinthium marinum Mifnenfe, and Banhinus Abfnthix Germanicum, and faith it is J Divers forts of Sea Wormewood, 103 |