¶ The Place.
This broad leafed Wormewood delighteth to grow on rocks and mountaines, and in vntlled places; it groweth much vpon dry bankes, it is common euery where in all countries: the best, saith Dioscorides, is sound in Pontus, Cappadocia, and on mount Taurus: Pliny writeth, that Ponticke Wormwood is better than that of Italie: Ouid in these words doth declare that Ponticke Worm∣wood is extreme bitter.
Turpia deformes gignunt Absinthiacampi, Terraque defructu, quam sit amaradocet.
Vntilled barren ground the lothsome Wormwood yeelds, And knowne it's by the fruit how bitter are the fields.
And Bellonius in his first booke of Singularities, chap. 76. doth shew, that there is also a broad leafed Wormwood like vnto ours, growing in the Prouinces of Pontus, and is vsed in Constanti∣nople by the Physitions there, it is likewise found in certain cold places of Switzerland, which by reason of the chilnesse of the aire riseth not vp, but creepeth vpon the ground, whereupon diuers cal it creeping Wormwood.