y 



335 



fpeclfic differences however are very evident. 



confiderably lefs unpleafant ' than thofe of the common Wormwood 



Its tafte and 



and 



the eflential 



which contains the 



1 



d 



fomewh 



hole of its flavour 



lefs ungrateful, and the watery extrad 



fomewhat lefs bitter, than thofe of the comm^on wormwood 



pre 



ferred by th€ London Coll 



Hence 



e m thofe tafes where the A 



Abfmthium is fuppofed to be too ofTenfive to the ftomach.f B 

 the efficacy of thefe plants depends upon their fenfible qualities, this 

 fpecies, though its virtues approach to thofe of common wormwood, 

 yet from being lefs powerfully bitter, muft be confidered in a propor- 

 tionate degree a lefs powerful medicine. 



A conferve of the tops of this plant is direded by the London 

 Pharmacopoeia. 



Marum 



grateful . ' ' 



Wither 



Wormwood 



differs not from other vegetable fixed alkali, provided they be equally pure. 



■ X 



X It appears by Diofcorides, that the ancients believed It to diforder the ftomach : 

 <^ Abrmthium marinum, quidam a-spapm vocant, eft herba prsetenuibus furculis abrotoni 

 parvi fimilitudine, minutulis referta feminibus, {ah3.m'^ra^omacho inimlca graveolenSj & 

 cum quadam caIfa6lione aftringens/^ L 3, c. 27. , ^' 



\ 



ARTEMISIA SANTONICA. TARTARIAN SOUTHERN- 

 WOOD. 



SYNONYM A. Santonicum. Pharm. Lond. '<^ Edinh Abfin- 

 thium Santonicum Alexandrinum. Baub. Pin. p. 139. Rati Hijl. 



p.%6S 



Sementina. Gerard Emac. p 



I I GO. 



Semen fanftum 



Lob. k. 758. Abfmthium Seriphium ^gyptium & femen fandum 



Scheba Arabum 



Camer, Epit, p, 457 



Abfmthium Santonicum 



alexandrinum, five fementina & femen fandum. Park. Theat 



Artemifia fruticofa incana ramofiffima, corymbis feffilibu 



nis obtu 



■^ 



fpicatis fubrotund 



fm 



GmeL Lib 



foHis fuperioribus Hnearibus brevifli 



.115. /. 51. 



No. 



2.? 



^ 



4 0. 



Clafs 



