I titie feeds are never given internally, their principal ufc being 
cataplafms and fomentations, for foftening, maturating, and difcuflii 
tumours; and in emollient glyfters. They were alfo an ingredie 
in the oleum e mucilaginibus of the fhop-s : but this has no longer 
place in the pharmacopoeia. 
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ANETHUM GRATEOLENS. COMMON DILL. 
:S TNO NT MA, Anethum. Pharm. Zand. & Edinb. Gerard. 
Emac. p. 1033. Rati Rift. p. 415. Anethum hortenfe five vul- 
gare. Park.Tbeat.p.%%6. Anethum hortenfe. Bauh. Pin. p. 147, 
Bentandria. Grd. Digynia. Lm. Gen. Plant. 364. 
\ Gen. Ch. Frudlus fubovatus, compreffus, flriatus. Petala invo 
luta, integra. 
Sp. Ch. A. fructibus compreflis. 
THE root is annual or biennial, long, tapering, whitifh, fending 
off ftrong fibres, and ftriking deeply in the ground : feveral Items 
ufually proceed from the fame root, and are erect, fmooth, channelled 
jointed, branched, covered with a glaucous exudation, and rife about 
two feet in height: the leaves ftand upon meathy footftalks, placed 
at the joints of the ftalk, and are alternate, fmooth, doubly pinnated ; 
pinnae linear, pointed : the flowers are produced in terminal umbels, 
which are large, flat, and like the partial umbels, compofed of feveral 
radii : it has no involucrum : the corolla confifts of five petals, which 
are yellow, egg-fhaped, obtufe, concave, and have their points turned 
inwards : the five filaments are yellow, longer than the corolla, and 
fnrnifhed with roundifh antherae: the germen is placed below the 
mfertion of the petals, and is covered by the nedtarium : the two ftyles 
are very fhort, and terminated by obtufe fiigmata ; the feeds are two, 
oval, 
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