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the botanical garden near Edinburgh, in the year 1784, is inferted 
below.* Though Afafoetida was formerly 
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medicine and a fauce, yet we had no particular 
eitimation both 
account of the 
plant till Kaempfer returned from his travels in Afia, and publifhed 
his Amoenitates Exotic^e in the beginning of the prefent century. 
As he faw the plant growing, and defcribes it from his own obferva- 
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It is a native of Perfi 
perennial, tapering, ponder 
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* Planta umbelliferay tripe^Ialis, ere£la, ramofa, glauca, flore luteo.^ 
'Radix perennis* 
Folia radicalia fex, procumbentiaj trilobo-ovata, multotles pinnatim divifa ; follolis 
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CfluUs 
incifis, fubacutis, fubdecurrentibus ; petiolo communi fuperne plano^ linea 
elevata longitudinaliter per medium decurrente. . , 
bipedalis, ereftus, teretiufculus, annuus, leviter ftriatus, glaber, nudus praeter 
xmam circa medium foliorum imperfe£lorum conjugationem; petiolo mem- 
branaceo concavo; ^ - 
Rami nudi> patuli ; quorum^ tres inferi, alterni, fuftinentur fmguli folii impeffe6li 
petiolo membranaceo concavo^ ~^ 
Quatuor intermedii verticillati funt, , Supremi ex apice caulis otSlo, quorum 
interni ere£ti. 
Onines hi rami fummitate fuftinent umbellam compofitam feffilem terminalem, 
et praeterea 3; — 6 ramulos externe pofitos, umbellas compofitas ferentes. 
Hoe modoj rami inferiores fuftinent 5, raro 6 ramulos i intermedii 3 vel 4; 
fuperiores i et 2. 
Gal. XJmbella univerfalis radlis 20—30 conftat. 
• ' partialis flofculis fubfeflilibus 10 — 20,^ 
Umbella compojita feffilis convexo-plana. 
pedunculata haemifpherica. 
Involucrum unlverfale nullum. 
parti ale nullum. 
' Perianthium proprium vix notabile^ 
Cor. univerfalis unifbrmis. 
Flofculi umbellae feffilis fertileSi 
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pedunculatse plerumque abortiunt; 
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-propria petalis quinque aequalibus, planis, ovatis : primo patulis, dein reflexis^ 
apice afcendente- 
Stam. Filamenta 5, fubulata, corolla longiora, incurvata, vf/^/Z^^r^ fubrotUndae. 
PisT. G^r;72^« turbinatum, inferum;. 
Styli duo, reflexi. 
Siig?nata apice incraflata. 
Per. nullum : fru6lus oblongus, plano-comprefTus, utrinque 3 lineis elevatis notatus eft, 
Sem. duo, oblonga, magna, utrinque plana, 3 lineis elevatis notata. 
Planta odorem alliaceum difFundit. Folia, rami, pedunculi, radiX; truncus, fe£li 
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fuccum fundunt Ia<5leum, fapore et odore Afse fcetidss. 
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