pz Chap. 34.. 
Tbeatrum Eotanicum. 
RIB B, t. 
r"m Thefecond is called hj Matthhlxi $xi& others Artemif?. minor fo doexve, Thethirdis calledby Lugdu- 
„mllt Artemi fialcptopbyllos mcana, and in Englilh Fine Mountaine Mugwort The lad is called by Bauhimts Arte - 
mifitt foljfttrmos, and the other by •LHgd.uncaJis Artemijia Monoclonos tpurttni*m airs Ambrofia, ill Englilh Fruit- 
full Muswort. 
The Vert ties. 
‘Diofcorides faith, it hfeateth and extenuateth. It is with good fucceffe put among other hearbes, that are boylcd 
for women to fit over the hotdecodlion, to drawdownc their courles, to helpe the delivery of the birth, and to 
expel! the fecondine or afterbirth, asallbfor the obftruftionsand inflammations of the mother; itbrcakeththe 
(lone, and caufeth one to make water where it is (lopped : the juyce thereof made up with Myrrhe, and put under 
as a peffary, worketh the fame effeft, and fo doth the roote alfo, being made up with Axungia into an oyntment, it 
doth take away Wens and hard knots, and kernels that grow about the necke and throat, as alfo to cale the paines 
about the necke, but efpecially and with more effeft, if fome field Dailies be put with it. The hearbe it felfc being 
frelh, or the juyce thereof taken, is afpeciall remedy, upon the overmuch taking of Op.ttm : three drammes of the 
powder dt the dryed leaves taken in wine, is a fpeedy, and the bell certame helpe for the Sciatica. A decofl.on 
thereof made with Camomill and Agrimony, and the place bathed therewith while it is warme taketh away the 
paines ofthe finewes, and the crampe. It is laid of Pfe 7 ,that if a Traveller b.nde fome of the hearbe about him 
he (hall feele no wearinefl'e at all in his journey; as alfo that no eviU medicine or evill bead (hall hurt him that hath 
this hearbe about him Many Inch idle fuperftitious and irreligious relations are fet downc, both by the ancient 
and later Writers concerning this and other plants, which to relate, were both unfeemely for me, and unprofitable 
for you. I will onely declare unto you, the idle conceit of fome of our later dayes concerning this plant, and that 
is even of Btuthimu, who glorieth to bean eye witneffe ofthis foppery, thatupon Saint Johns eye, there are coales 
to be found at mid-day, under the rootes of Mugwort, which after or before that time, are very (mall or none at all, 
and are ufed as an Amulet to hang about the necke ot thofe that have the falling ficknefie, to cure them thereof. 
But Oh the weake and fraile nature of man ! which I cannot but lament, that is more pi one to beleevc and relyc 
upon fuch impoftures, than upon the ordinances oFGod in his creatures, and truft in his ^ovidencc. 
Chap. XXXIIIJ. 
Abrotamm. Sothernwood. 
^F Sothernwood (which is the Airotammmv, as the late and bed experienced Authors doe hold; the 
,/iwum to be the Lavender Cotton, which (hall be fet downe m the next Chapter ) there are many 
forts,as they (hall be declared in their order: of which number I have taken fome from thole hearbes 
going before, as alfo from Wormcwood that {hall follow, becaufe I fuppofe they rather belong to t 1 
Tribe, than to any of the other, from whence I have taken them. 
1. Abotanumtnas vnlgare. Common Sothernwood. 
i. Abrotanum mas vulgar?. Common Sothernwood. 
Our ordinary Sothernwood (which is the mod common 
in gardens with us, and generally called Sothernwood for 
the other forts are called by other names, for them oft part, 
and not acknowledge to be of this kinde) rifeth up with ma¬ 
ny weake and wooddy branches bending downewards, if 
they be not held up, fpecially while they are fmall, for the 
elder ftems are more ftrong and great, ryfing in time to bee 
higher than any man, from which doe grow out many fmall 
and long branches, whereon are fet many fmall fine and fhort 
leaves, as fine as Fennell, but not fo long, ot a grayifh or ruf- 
fet greene colour, fomewhat ftrong, but not unpleafant in 
fmell, and of a ftrong and fomewhat bitter tafte: from the 
middle almoft to the toppes of the upper fprigges, ftand final 
round yellow flowers hanging like little buttons, which ne¬ 
ver open much,but pafle away,and after them come the feed, 
which is flnaller than that of Wormewood : the root grow- 
ethnotvcrydeepe,butis wooddy, with divers ftringsan¬ 
nexed unto it: this lofeth all the leaves on the ftalkes and 
branches every yeare, and fhoot forth anew in the Spring. 
3. Abrotammmd)iu. Great Sothernwood. 
This great Sothernwood is altogether like the former, 
growing as high,or rather higher, and with leaves like there¬ 
unto, blit fomewhat larger and greener, of a ftrong refinous 
feent, not fo pleafant, but drawing fomewhat neare unto the 
fmell of Camfire or Francumfence, the flowers and feed dif¬ 
fer not from the other, nor the roote, which is wooddy and 
runneth under ground in the fame manner. 
3. Abrotamm arborefeent. Tree Sothernwood. 
This rare kinde of Sothernwood groweth upright, with 
oneftem or ftalke, to the height ofa man, if the lower fmall 
fprigges bee pruned from it in the growing, and fhooteth 
forth many branches on all fides, on which doe grow many 
leaves, very much cut in and divided, but are nothing fo fine 
