The plants of the Bible / [John Hutton Balfour].

  • John Hutton Balfour
Date:
1885
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Credit: The plants of the Bible / [John Hutton Balfour]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WORMWOOD. (PROBABLY A SPECIES OF ARTEMISIA.) EVERAL species of artemisia grow in Pales- tine. The common wormwood is Artemisia Absinthium. The name always implies wormwood or something more hitter than gall. In Deuteronomy xxix. 18, it is said, “ Lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and worm- wood ; ” and its unpleasant character is alluded to in many parts of the Bible (Prov. v. 4 ; Amos v. 7 ; Lam. iii. 15, 19). The genus artemisia belongs to the natural order Com- posite. 4*
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