Lib. l. 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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countrcy where it groweth : but that part of Swiflerland which belongeth to France is accounted 
of the Romans to be beyond the Alps ; and the prouinceof Santonisfar from it : for this isapart 
of Guines, fcituate vpon the coaft of the Ocean, beneath the floud Gerond Northward : therefore 1 
Santon Wormwood, ifit hauehis name from the Santons, groweth feReYrSm the Alps'! burlf it ' 
grovvneereadioyning to the Alps, then hath it nochis name from the Santons. 
The Temperature and Vertues. 
White Wormwood is hot and fomewhat dry. 
Vnfauorie Wormwood, as it is without fmell and tafte, fo is it fcarfe of any hot qualitie,much 
leflehath it any fcouring facultie. Thefe are not vfed in phyficke, where the others maybe had, J 
being as it were wilde or degenerate kindes of Wormwood ; fomeof them participating both of 
the forme and fmell of other plants. 
The figure which was here formerly in the fir ft place, by the name of ^Ifiithium dibmfttli ,\i thefirft of the next chapter faue one, where you may fee more 
thereof. rhevrhiccVVoi'mwjoi mentioned here in the Names, but no where elle in the Chapter, is cither the fame with, or one very like our Sea VVormewood. 
Let fach as ire curious look: into Camtriim his Hort.Mcd- ia the title of ~ibfintb;um Saatonicum : and in Doi»n*ni % Pcmgt-i • lib- 3. cap.y where the fitft deferiptioa 
is of this VVormewood. 
Chap. 453. Of z 5 \fugxvort. 
X Lsirtcmifia, mater Herbarttm, 
1 /— . Common tylugwort. 
The Defcription. 
■ t f “| ' He fitft kinde of Mug-wort hath 
J broad leaues , very much cut or 
clouen like the leaues of common 
Wormewood,but larger,of a darke greene co- 
lour aboue, and hoarie vnderneath : the ftalkes 
are long and ftraight, and full of branches, 
whereon do grow (mail round buttons, which 
are che floures, fmelling like Marierome when 
they wax ripe : the root is great, and of a wood- 
die fubftance. 
2 The (econd kinde of Mugworc hath a 
great thicke and wooddy root, from whence 
arife fundry branches of a reddifh colour , be- 
fet full of fmall and fine iagged leaues , verie 
like vnto fea Sothernwood : the feed groweth 
alongft the fmall twiggy branches, like vnto 
little berries, which fall not from their bran- 
ches in a long time after they be ripe. $ I 
know not how this differeth from the former, 
but only in the colour of the ftalk and floures, 
which are red or purplifh ; whereas the former 
is morewbitifh. t 
3 There is alfo another Mugwort, which 
hath many branches riling from a wooddie 
root, Handing vpright in diftancesone from 
another, ofanafhiecolour, befetwith leaues 
not much vnlike fea Purllane ; about the lower 
part of the ftalkes, and toward the top of the 
branches they are narrower and lefler, and cut 
with great and deepe iagges, thicke in fub- 
ftance, and of a whitifh colour, as all the reft 
of the plant is : it yeeldeth a pleafant fmell like Abrotanum marimtm, and in tafte is fomewhat lal- 
tifh ; the floures are many,and yellow : which being vaded, there followeth molfie feed like vnto 
that of the common Wormwood, f The leaues of this plant are of two forts ■ for fomeof them 
are longand narrow, like thofe of Lauander (whence Cl a ft as hath called it s^Artemifia folio Laucn- 
dttU) other fomearecut in or diuided almoft to the middle rib ; as you may fee it expre ft apart in 
a figureby it felfe, which fhewes both the whole, as alfo the diuided leaues, 
