Chap. 745. EngUJJ) Eerhs. " ~ 1 28^' 



Wormwood^ Or, >true. 

 cPontickJ 



;e third, or fine Leav'd 

 30d. It has a long J 



■vefsis notfogretu 



orAuE 



Wormwood Pontick pne Leav'd. 



tues fake, have been f ranfplanted into our Coun 

 try, where now they are Nurft up in Gardens. 



Ml. The Times. They all Flower in Jufy and 

 Augufl; in which Times they ought to be Gather 

 id, and careftlly laid up for Medical ufes. 



VIII. As to their ^ua/,t,es, Spedfication, Prepa 



CHAP. DCCXLVI. 



tine Ab/1/ithium SeriphiuM, ani Seriphium-, Ahfin- 

 thiumMariiimum, if Ma, hum: inEnglilh, Marjh 

 Wormvoood, and Sea Womvoood. 



II. The Kinds. Authors give us 4 or t forts of 

 this Plant, but not being Common with us, we 

 (hall only Treat of fuch as Grow in our Salt 

 Marfhes, or are Nurft up in our Gardens, viz. 

 I. Seriphium Anglicum, Abfwthtum Senphium ; 

 Abftmhium Maritimum vel Marinum : Our com- 



album, Abfinthium Marinum album : White 

 Marfh Wormwood. 



The Defcriptiotis. 



III. The firft, or our Englifh Marfh Worm- 

 wood. Its Root runt fomething deep, yet fpreads 

 it Self in the Ground being compofed of many 

 large Strings and /mall hbres. It rifes up 

 Kith many hoary round woody Stalks, two Feet 

 or more high, being mil furmjhed and re- 

 pleat Kith a vafl number 0} white hoary long 

 and narrov) Leaves , rather broader .and long- 

 er than /z/Ty Southernwood Leaves, having afmall 

 bitterijh Talie, and a very pUafing Urong Smell. 

 The llomrs are fmall and yellow, fianding at the 



'^'Tv!'TheTecond^ or white Marfh Wormwood. 



heZes are mnged, feveral fmall narrow ones (not 

 ve^yL'/ettpoVone m,ddUR.b, M feemto 

 be divided M it tioere into many jags, not altogether 

 fo Urge as the True R'*"'^^^^ "^J^^"^/-^ ^^J 



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