loo Chap. 7,6. Theatrum Botanicum. Tribe s 
(hikes about a fpanne high, fet very iparfedly, with very fine cut hoary leaves, like both for forme and .olour to 
our ordinary Romane W ormewood: from the middle whereof upwards to the toppes, at the fevendl /oynts with 
the leaves fhoote forth {lender ftalkes, bearing at the ends of them fcaly heads, out of which come pale coloured 
flowers, and after them fmall blacke feed, fmelling like Tanfie, the whole plant fmelleth and talleth like Worme- 
wood. 
'Bauhinus fetteth forth another fort, which he calleth Abfnthium Alpimm candidumhumile, which fbould bee 
here inferted, but that I thinke it rather a Jpecies of the Abfnthium umbellifcrum ., becaufe hee faith it beareth heads 
like the St&cbas luted, or rhrina. and therefore I forbeare to recite it. * 
The place. 
The firft groweth as plentifully in England, in many places wild, as in other Countries. The fecond is found up¬ 
on divers high Mountaines, and not elfewhere wild,but is nurfed up in many gardens, both in Italy and Germany , 
and with fome lovers of rare plants with us. 1 he third Qlufius faith groweth plentifully in many places of Hungal 
ryandAuflria, and in other places alfo, as other Writers doe fet downe, it is much efteemed in our Country, and 
therefore found in many Country gardens of our Land. The fourth Clufius faith, he onely found in Aufiria^boxo 
women gather it and bring it to Vienna , for the ufe of the Apothecaries, or any elfe, promifcuoofly with the other 
Ponticke or Romane Wormewood. The fifth is not knowne whence his originall was, but is onely kept in gar¬ 
dens as a rarity, and variety among others. The fixt Clufius faith he firft found, onely on the high cliffes of Aufiria 
and Stiria, and afterwards on the Mountaines. The feventh groweth on Mount Baldus, and on Serva one of the 
Belluni Mountaines. The eighth groweth on the hills, among the Valefians, as the laft doth alfo. 
The Time. 
They doe all for the mod part flower in Auguft, yet fome earlier, or later than others. 
The Names, 
Wormewood is called inGreeke ofivSioh quafi dny^w impotabile ob amarimdincm 3 vel ingufl,abide , quia illud non 
tar.gunt animalia in depafeendu her bis. Diofcorides calleth it alfo @ctSv7ny.foy a profunda amarorc. The fir ft is generally 
called Abfnthium vulgar e 3 and of fome latifolium, yet Ruellms calleth it Ponticum, and Baulinas faith it is the Pon - 
v ticum five Romanum officinarum, meaning his owne Country : for I am fure it is not lo called by any of our Apothe¬ 
caries in their (hops. The fecond is fcarce knowne to any in our Land, Gefner in bortis calleth it Abfnthium commune 
minus five Alp'mum 3 Gamer arias upon CAlatthiolus Abfnthium montanum 3 and fo doth Tabcrmontanus who calleth 
it alfo Romanum 3 Bauhinus calleth it Abfnthium Ponticum CMcntanum, and Gerard Abfnthium tenuifolium PontV 
cum Galeni. The third is more frequent as I faid before, and ufually called Abfnthium r Ponticnm 3 or Romanum , of 
moft Writers, judging it to bee the true Abfnthium of Pontus , that Diofcorides and Galen doe commend : yet 
Gefner and Lacuna call it Abrotanum famina , and fo doth Fuchfius , for which as I faid in the Chapter before, Mat- 
thiolus taxeth him of an error. Tragus calleth it Abrotanum minus, and Cordus upon Diofcorides Abrotanum album. 
Rue/litis and Cafalpinus take it to be Abfnthium Santonicum : and Lobel and Pcna'm their A dv erf aria let it downe 
for the aAlbfinthium Gallatium Sardonium ofDtofeorides 3 in Englifh every where almoft, Romane Wormewood, or 
Cyprefle. The fourth is called by Clufius Abfnthium tenuifolium Anfiriacum 3 and by Lobel and Lugdunenfs Abfin- 
thium Ponticum Tridentinum herbariorum 3 by Dodonaus Abfnthium Seriphium, but his figure is the lame, with Glu- 
/JW his Aufiriacurn, Lobel his Tridentinum 3 and Gerard his tenuifolium feu Romanum , in Englifh fine leafed Worme¬ 
wood of Aufiria. The fift Gefner in hort. and Lobel in his obfervations call Abfnthium infpidum , and Bauhinus Ab¬ 
fnthium infpidum Abfnthio vulgari fimilc, in Englifh Vnfavory Wormewood. Thelixth Clufius calleth Abfn¬ 
thium Alpinttm umbellferum. (famerarius Abfnthium Pannonicum flore albo, and Lobel and others Abfnthium album¬ 
in Englifh white tufted Wormewood.The 7 .is another kind hereof growing in other places, as Bauhinus hath well 
obferved,and fo fetteth it downe in his Trodromus ,for Pona fetteth forth a 3 .fpecics in his Italian Booke,differing in 
nothing but the fmalnes of leaves and flowers, Lobel calleth it Vmbellifernm alterum Italic u.lhc g.is called by Gefner 
in bortis , Abfnthium Seriphiufamina 3 Sc in his Appendix Abfnthiu album e Valcfa \for he faith in the faid Country of 
Vale fa ic is called herba albajVeifskrautx Camer arias faith it is called by fome Abfnthium Santonicum^ thinketh it 
may better be called Santonicu famina Valleftana ,than Seriphium as Cjefner doth ,‘Bauhinus calleth it Abfnthium Seri- 
phium montar,urn candidum. The laft Bauhinus calleth Abfnthium Alpinum incanum , and faith it is the Alpinism 2. of 
Pon a 3 in his Italian B aldns 3 becaufc P ona there faith it is very like that of Gefner & Camerarius, which is the lafl: before 
this,but I cannot fo thinke,for that of Pona is a fpecies of the umbelliferous kinds.There is a controverfy among many 
learned men and Writers, as you may here well perceive, by their names they give to the feverall Wormewbods 
are extant: which fhould be the true Abfnthium Ponticum that Diofcorides preferreth, and Galen fo much commen- 
deth and preferreth before all others, both for the good fmell, and aromaticall tafle, others being exceflive bitter 
and lothfomc, and that it hath leffer leaves and flowers, but efpecially for the aftriftion it hath more than others, 
which is fo effeCtuall for the liver and ftomacke- Lobel and Dena in their Adverfaria have feanned the matter, and 
anfwcrcd all objections as 1 thinke at large, the fumme whereof in briefe I will here fet downe for all to under- 
ftand. Eirfl, for thekindes. Diofcorides andGalen makebut onck'mde of Abfnthium , and not many,and but onely 
fay, that the bed: in property groweth in Pontus, as they doe in divers other hearbes, fhew in what place the moft 
vigorous of that kinde doth grow, which property it obtaineth, more by the goodnefle of the place, inj'oyingthe 
commodity of a free and cleare ayre, and other things correfpondent, then by the nature of the hearbe it l'elfe.Thcrf 
for the feent, that it is more aromaticall than others, yet hereby they intimate that others are fweet, although not 
fo much, which is well knowne likewife to be the benefit of the place where it groweth, for fome hearbes are more 
or leffe fweet, or more or leffe (linking, which tranfplanted doe alter; as Agrimony and divers others are fweet in 
fome place, and nothing at all in others. Then the leaves have troubled many learned men, for they thinke it is a 
fault in the tranferibers, to fet downe leffer for greater or longer, as it often hapneth in 7 heophrafins. But more 
often in Diofcorides,as in the Chapters of Heleninm Meum and others,& may be alfo in Cjalen 3 not by his owne fault, 
but by the tranferibers : but Galen himfelfe in bis Chapter of Abrotanum taketh away all thefe doubts, where be 
faith thus, there are three fpecies or differences put under the name of one kinde of Wormewood, that which is 
called Ponticum , the fecond S*ntonicum 3 and the third Seriphium : Seriphium and Santonicum are enemies to the 
ftomacke, and trouble it: Wormewood onely among them named Ponticum, that is growing in Tontus, is plea- 
fing to the ftomacke. From which place we may well gather that the ftrifeis appeafed, concerning this matter,that 
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