od has almost fallen into complete disuse; but in
France it is largely used in the shape of Absinthe. As a garden plant,
Tarragon, which is a species of Wormwood, will claim a place in every
herb garden, and there are a few, such as A. sericea, A. cana, and A.
alpina, which make pretty shrubs for the rockwork.

FOOTNOTES:

[325:1] Wormwood had a still higher reputation among the ancients, as
the following extract shows:

+Artemisia monoklonos.+

+Auei gar kopon audros hodoiporou, hos k'eni chersin
ten monoklonon eche; peri d' au posin herpeta panta
pheugei, hen tis eche en hodo, kai phasmata deina.+

_Anonymi Carmen de Herbis, in "Poetae Bucolici."_

[326:1] In connection with Mugwort there is a most curious account of
the formation of a plant name given in a note in the "Promptorium
Parvulorum," s.v. Mugworte: "Mugwort, al on as seyn some, Modirwort;
lewed folk that in manye wordes conne no rygt sownyge, but ofte shortyn
wordys, and changyn lettrys and silablys, they coruptyn the _o_ in to
_a_ and _d_ in to _g_, and syncopyn _i_ smytyn a-wey _i_ and _r_ and
seyn mugwort."--_Arundel MS._, 42, f. 35 v.

YEW.

(1) _Song._

My shroud of white, stuck all with Yew,
Oh! prepare it.

_Twelfth Night_, act ii, sc. 4 (56).

_(2) 3rd Witch._

Gall of goat, and slips of Yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse.

_Macbeth_, act iv, sc. 1 (27).

(3) _Scroop._

Thy very beadsmen learn to bend their bows
Of double-fatal Yew against thy state.

_Richard II_, act iii, sc. 2 (116).

(4) _Tamora._

But straight they told me they would bind me here
Unto the body of a dismal Yew.

_Titus Andronicus_, act ii, sc. 3 (106).

(5) _Paris._

Under yond Yew-trees lay thee all along,
Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground;
So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread
(Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves)
But thou shalt hear it.

_Romeo and Juliet_, act v, sc. 3 (3).

(6) _Balthasar._

As I did sleep under this Yew tree here,[327:1]
I dreamt my master and another fought,
And that my master slew him.

_Ibid._ (137).

_See also_ HEBENON, p. 118.