OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius (Vitell.) (1984) xi. 54 Ðeos wyrt þe man artemesiam & oðrum naman mucgwyrt nemneð bið cenned on stanigum stowum & on sandigum.
OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius (Vitell.) (1984) xiii. 58 Witodlice þas þreo wyrta þe we arte [m] esias nemdon ys sæd þæt Diana hy f[in]dan scolde & heora mæ[g]enu & læcedo[m] Chironi centauro s[y]ll[an].
a1325 Glosses in Erfurt MS in (1918) 42 158 (MED) Artemesye i. mater herbarum.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xvi. 915 Arthemisia is ycleped mooder of herbes and was somtyme yhalwed..to þe goddas þat hatte Arthemis.
c1450 in W. R. Dawson (1934) 150 (MED) Take wormode, Artamasye, rw, comyn grese of porke.
1548 W. Turner sig. B.iij Arthemisia is of three sortes, the fyrst is the herbe that I cal sea Mugworte, the seconde kynde..is Feverfew, and the thyrde kynde Tansey.
1615 Coll. Med. Eng. Climat in T. Bright (ed. 2) 77 Artemesia with the leaues of harts tonge and a little wormewood boyled in wine and drunke, is good against the Iaundise.
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in (ed. 2) 50 Mugwort in the East Riding of Yorkshire, is the usual word for Common Wormwood; though they have there an abundance of Artemisia, which they call Motherwort.
1726 R. Houstoun 187 It's prepar'd from an Herb not much unlike our Artemisia, or Mugwort.
1754 I. 195/1 Artemisia, in botany, a genus of plants with flosculous flowers, comprehending not only the mugworts, but wormwood and southernwood.
1786 J. Abercrombie I. 18 The hardy Artemisias consist of a tallish ever-green, and a lower deciduous shrub.
1843 J. C. Frémont Rep. 21 June in D. Jackson & M. L. Spence (1970) I. 177 The artemisia , absinthe, or prairie sage, as it is variously called, is increasing in size, and glitters like silver, as the southern breeze turns up the leaves to the sun.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore I. 95/1 The Artemisias also abound in the arid soil of the Tartarian Steppes.
1897 31 653 Very hairy plants covered by thick pannose pubescence, which retain the moisture, as species of..Senecio, Evolvulus and Artemisia.
1965 in L. E. Sweet (1970) 34 The area was steppe, characterized by the sagebrush-like Artemisia.
1997 J. Updike 229 Her back garden is profuse with odd-shaped flowers I cannot name. Yarrow? Artemisia?
2007 (Nexis) 1 Feb. hg10 Look for an arbor sheltering sippers of absinthe, the green spirit derived from herbs, including the flowers and leaves of artemisia, commonly known as wormwood.