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Of the Hiftorie of Plants. 
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wood. Some hauc termed this plant Ah JuhnmJcmornu.mJsvx they had herder realm fo to c’r r 
ifitwas fo called becaufe it was imagined toprew in the I-icuii ct oi Saintoir ge.it may ray vu ! 
appeare to the contrarie ; for in the Alpes of GaJatia,a ccuntrey in Alia tumtji gicVvcihin great 
plcnty,and therefore may rather be called Calatium Satamctm , and r ot Sartcnui-.m :tut Jearii a 
controuerfies impertinent to the Hi ftory,it is theFontickcW ormwcod of<?a/ewdefcription,ard 
foholdcnofthe learned Palitdanefwho for his lingular knowledge in plants is worthy triple honor) 
and likevvifemany others. 
1 Ahfmthium latifolium five Ponticum, 
, Broad leafed Wormwood. 
4y v //-vn i-J i tU ^ 
f 2 Alf.nlhit.mUvuifoliurn Pentium Gale, 
Small Ponticke VYormuccd, 
ar The Place'. 
Tins broad leafed YVormewood delighreth to grow on rocks and meuntaines, and invntlled 
places; it groweth much vpon dry bankes.it is common euery where in all countries'thebeft, faith 
Diojcoridesjs found in Pontus, Cappadocia, and on mount Taurus : Plim wiiteth,that Ponticke 
ormwood is better than thatofltalie: Oitid in thefe words doth declare that Ponticke Worm- 
wood is extremebitter. 
Tiirpia de formes gignunt Ahfmthiacampi, 
Tcrraque dcfrucdufluam Jit amaradteet. 
Vntilled barren ground the lothfome Wormwood yeelds, 
And knowne it's by the fruit how bitter are the fields. 
And Belle ni us in his firft bookeof Singularities, ch3p.76.doth fhew, that there isalfoabroa 
leated Wonmyood like vnto ours, growing in the Proumccs of Pontus, and is vfed in Conftant 
" £ P i h n fit ^ 0nS , tl ! Cre ’ n: 15 hk , CVVlfe fol,nd in certain cold places of Switzerland, which b 
itcree^ng^WrrnvTOrTl ^ ^ n0t Vp,but cree P eth v P Qn the ground, Whereupon diners c, 
r 1 fl The Time. 
JwX C &SbfcJfr Frfeacd in IUly and Al, § llft ’ then ma y Wormwood be gathere 
% The Names. 
It is called in Greeke«'to,., it is named of ApuUm, Abftnthium rujiicum , dounrrey Wormwoor 
