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Other herbs and plants there are which retain the names of the countries from whence they were transported, as the Median apples from Media, where they first grew; Punic apples from Punicia, that is to say, Carthage; Ligusticum, which we call lovage, from Liguria, the coast of Genoa; Rhubarb from a flood in Barbary, as Ammianus attesteth, called Ru; Santonica from a region of that name; Fenugreek from Greece; Gastanes from a country so called; Persicaria from Persia; Sabine from a territory of that appellation; Staechas from the Staechad Islands; Spica Celtica from the land of the Celtic Gauls, and so throughout a great many other, which were tedious to enumerate.
The virutes of both are supposed to be of the same kind, and to differ only in strength. The tops used to enter three of our distilled waters, and give name to a conserve. They are an ingredient also in the common fomentation and green oil. ARTEMISIA Santonica. ROMAN WORMWOOD. Seeds.
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