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FERULA- ASSAFCETIDA. 
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ASAFCETIDA GIGANTIC 
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SYNONYM A, Planta umbellifera, tripedalis, ereda, ramofaj 
glauca, flore luteo, Hope^ PhiL Tranf, vol, 75,/. 2)^, As A f o e t i d a 
umbellifera Leveilico affinis, foliis inftar Poeoni^ ramofis ; caule 
pleno maximo ; femine foHaceo nudo folitario ; Brancas urfinx i 
yel paftinacas fimili; radice afam foetidam fundente. Kaempfer 
Amcenlt, Exot^p, 535". Gummi-refia, Afafoetida, Pharm. Lond, ^ 
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Edin, Hingifeh Per/arum,. Altiht Arahum, et a quibufdam creditur 
'ZiK<pm vel oTOi ciK^m Diofcor, Theophrqfl, Hippoc^ ^c, Lafer et 
Laferpitium, Latimrum, , \ 
.Clafs Pentandria. Ord* Digynia. L. Gen. Plant 343 
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£^ G^;/. Ci6. Frudlus ovalis, comprefTo-planus, flriis utrinque 3. 
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F. Foliis alternatim fmuatis obtufis. 
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the fpecific character according to 
of the' Afafoetida pi 
which differs in 
many refpeds from the figure here annexed, which is taken from that 
communicated to the Royal Society by the late Dr. Hope, and pub- 
liihed in the 75th volume of the Philofophical Tranfadions : and this 
difference being fo confiderable as to indicate ' more than a 
botanical variety, Sir Jofeph Banks thinks it probable that Afafoetida 
may be produced from different fpecies of the ferula. Dr. Hope was 
undoubtedly the lirft who cultivated the Afafoetida plant in Britain 
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X Branca urfma is the Hsracleum Sphondylium of Linnaeus. 
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