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I. Ab/inthium Fonticiim five Kominvm vulg^rc. 
Common Roman Wormewood. 
two or three foote high, befet with the like leaves as ©row 
below, but fmaller,divided at thetoppes into fmaller bran¬ 
ches, whereon grow many (mall buttons with pale yellow 
flowers in them,wherein afterward isconteined fmall feed: 
the roote is hard and wooddie, with many firings thereat: 
the (hikes hereof dye downe every yeare; but the roote 
holdeth a tuft of greene leaves, all the winter (hooting 
forth new againe, which a’ - e of a ftrong feent but not un- 
pleafant,and of a very bitter tafte. There is a Tree Worme- 
woodlike hereunto, but growing greater and higher in the 
war me Countries. 
2 Abfinthium Ponticum verttbt. True Roman Wormewood. 
This Wormewood hath more llender and fhorter (hikes, 
by a foote at the lead than the former, and reafonable large 
leaves, yet fmaller, and more finely cut in and divided then 
it, but as white and hoary both leaves and (hikes: the flow¬ 
ers alfo are ofa pale yellow colour, (landing upon the fmall 
branches in the fame manner; fo that, but that it is fmaller 
in each part, it is altogether like it: the rootes likewifeare 
fmaller, Idle woody and fuller of fibres: the fmell thereof 
is fomewhat aromaticall fweete, and the bitrerneffe is not 
fo loathfome to tafle: Vnto this anfwereth the o 4 bfinthutm 
Ponticum C retie am of Bauhinns , but that it is in his ownc 
Country more fweet in feent, and little or nothing bitter in 
tafte, but fomewhat altereth in another foyle. 
3. Abfinthium Ponticum five Rom mum z'via arc. Common 
Romane Wormewood. 
. This is a fmall low hearbe (if I may call it a Wormewood) 
with much more Gender & fhort (hikes than the lad; where¬ 
on grow very final and fine fnort hoary white leaves,fmaller 
and finer than thofe of the fine Sothernwood, which grow 
at feverall joynts, many comming forth together^ the tops 
of the (hikes grow fmall yellowifh flowers, neither fo ma¬ 
ny nor fo great as the Iafl : the roote from a (hort head fhoo- 
teth forth many long fibres, whereby it is nouriflaed in the 
ground, fending forth divers fprouts round about it, where¬ 
by it is-much encrcafed .-the fmell hereof is faint, and farre 
weaker than the other, & the tafte thereof much lelfe bitter, 
4. Abfinthium tenaifolium Auftriacum. five leafed 
W ormewood of Auftria. 
Th/s fmall Wormewood, hath many fmall hard and ftiffe 
hoary (hikes, whereon are fet without order, fmall and 
fomewhat long hoary leaves, very like unto the leaves of 
Sea Wormewood : which (hikes are divided towards the 
toppes, into many other fmall and (lender branches rifing 
from the joynts, where the leaves doe grow with many 
fmall heads, which fhew forth many fmall whitilh flowers* 
5. Abfinthiuminodorum. Vnfavory Wormewood. 
The Vnfavory Wormewood is inleafe fo like the firft 
common Wormewood, both for the whitenefle, largenelfe, 
and djvifions thereof,that it cannot be knowne from it at all, 
unlelfe you make your nofe the j’udge of the feent, which in 
this is fo fmall, that it is generally faid to be without any at 
all: yet it hath in the heate of Summer, a fmall weake fmel, 
fuch as is found in fome of the Sothernwoods: the flowers 
and all things elfe are alike: but this is fomewhat more 
tender to be preferved in the Winter than the former. 
6 . Abjinthium album (five Vmbellifertim. White tufted 
Wormewood, 
This white Wormewood hath his roote compofed of ma¬ 
ny fmall blackc fibres, which fhooteth forth many heads, of 
long fomewhat thick and broad hoary white leaves, cut in 
about the edges, in fome places mere than in others, nar¬ 
rower at the bottome, and broader at the point, made fome¬ 
what like unto the leaves of the great field Daifie, but fmal¬ 
ler : from fome of thefe heads doe fhoot forth, (lender hoa¬ 
ry ftalkes, about a foote and a halfe high, fet here and there 
with fuch like leaves as grow below,but fmaller : at the top; 
whereof (land many fcaly filver white and greene heads, in 
% tuft together, out of which breaks forth Giver white (mall 
flowers, 
