The Greeks also called it _artemesia_ after the goddess Artemis, or Diana, and made it a moon-plant. Very poetically, therefore, Shakespeare alludes to it as "Dian's Bud,"--and most appropriately does it appear in the moon-lit forest. Gerard, however, quaintly says that is was named for Queen Artemesia, wife of Mausolus, King of Caria, who built the Mausoleum, which was one of the "Seven Wonders of the World." The ancients liked its flavor in their wine as many people still like vermouth, one of its infusions. In Shakespeare's time people hung up sprays of wormwood to drive away moths and fleas; and there was a homely verse: Whose chamber is swept and wormwood is thrown No flea for his life dare abide to be known. Wormwood was also kept in drawers and closets. To dream of the plant was of good augury: happiness and domestic enjoyment were supposed to result. Mugwort is another old name for the plant. MONK'S-HOOD (_Aconitum Napellus_). This plant has three names: monk's-hood, wolf's-bane, and aconite. Aconite is the "dram of poison" that _Romeo_ calls for,[83] and Shakespeare alludes to _aconitum_ in "King Henry IV," where the king, addressing _Thomas of Clarence_, compares its strength and that of gunpowder. "Though it do work as strong as aconitum or rash gunpowder."[84] Aconite was supposed in Elizabethan days to be an antidote against the most deadly poison. Ben Jonson in "Sejanus" makes one of his characters remark: I have heard that aconite Being timely taken hath a healing might Against the scorpion's sting.[85] Lord Bacon in "Sylva" calls _Napellus_ "the most powerful poison of all vegetables." [83] "Romeo and Juliet"; Act V, Scene I. [84] Part II, Act IV, Scene IV. [85] Act III, Scene III. Yet despite its poisonous qualities, an English garden lover writes, "the plant has always held, and deservedly, a place among the ornamental plants of our gardens; its stately habit and its handsome leaves and flowers make it a favorite." The ancients, who were unacquainted with mineral poisons, regarded aconite as the most deadly of all poisons and believed that Hecate had caused the plant to spring from the venomous foam frothing from the mouth of the three-headed dog, Cerberus, when Hercules took him from Pluto's dark realm on one of his Twelve Labors. Ovid describes the aconite as A weed by sorcerers renowned The strongest constitution to compound Called aconite, because it can unlock All bars and force its passage through a rock. In Greece it was also known as Wolf's-bane (_Lycoctonum_), and it was thought that arrow-heads rubbed with it would kill wolves. Turner quaintly writes in his "Herbal" (1568):