«T The Place. 
The common Mugwort groweth wilde in fundry places about the borders of fields, about high 
waies, brookefides, and luch like places. 
Sea Mugwort groweth about Rie and Winchelfea caftle,and at Portfmouth by the Ille of 
W ight. 
«j The Time. 
They floure in Iuly and Auguft. 
The Names. 
Mumvort is called in Greekc 'a^iy****® ■ and alfoinLatine Artemifia, which name it had qH {^Artc~ 
mifia Queene of Halicarnaffus,and wife of noble Maufolus King of Caria.who adoptedit for her 
owne herbe : before that it was called Part hen is, as Pliny writeth. Apuleitts aihrmeth that it 
svas likewifecaUed P arthenion \ who hath very many names for it, and many of them are placed in 
Dtofcond’s among the baftard names : moll of thefe agree with the right Artemtfix, , and diners of 
them with other herbes, which now and then are numbred among the Mugworts : it is alfo called 
MaterHerbarum in high Dutch, fficifuf?, and ^antJOtyUIUS ©Uttell tin Spanifti and Italian, 
Artemifia : in French, Armoift : inlow-Dutch,23t)U0Et,j5?HJt 3l£Ht9> fetUPt ' in EngliIh,Mugwort, 
and common Mugwort, 
The Temperature. 
Mugwort is hot and dry in the fecond degree, and fomevvhat aftringent. 
cy The ferities. 
plirry faith that Mugwort doth properly cure womens difeafes. 
Viofeorid-s writeth, that it bringethdowne the termes, the birth, and the after-birth. 
And that in like manner it helpeth the mother, and the paine of the matrix, to be boy led as 
bathes for women to fit in ; and that being put vp with myrrh, it is of like force that the bath iso. 
And that the tender tops are boiled and drunk for the fame infirmities ; and that they are applie 
in manner ofapultefie to the fhare, tobringdovvne the monethly courfe. , 
Pliny faith, that the trauellerorwayfaring man thathath the herbe tied about him feeletn no 
wearifomnelfe.at all; and that lie who hath it about him can be hurt by nopoyfonfome medicines, 
nor by any wilde beaft,neither yet by the Sun it felfe ; and alfo that it is drunkeagainft Opium, o r 
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