4 8g 
li 
f 
toward the bottom the pinnae are broad 
and at the 
whi 
root roundilh, and deeply indented at the edges: the "fl 
d ftand in umbels, which are terminal, flat, confiding 
radii or more, both in the general and partial umbels : there 
e petals, which 
are 
of 
m 
the proper corolla confifis of fiv 
ovate, and bent inwards at their extremities : the filaments are white, 
tapering, fpreading, and furnifhed with roundilh antherse : the germen 
is egg-ihaped, ftriated, and upon it is placed a white nefhv double 
e&ar 
the two ftyles are fhort, white, and furnifhed with fimpl 
ftigmata : the feeds are naked, furrowed, egg-fhaped. It 
of this country, and grows in dry meadows and paflures: the flowers 
a native 
appear in Augufl and September 
Sev 
f P 
Pimp 
were formerly officinally ufed 
which the P. magna, and the fpecies reprefented in the annexed pi 
wer 
the principal 
in 
their 
found to have no remarkable difference 
dicinal qual 
however thefe 
The roots, which obt 
a place in the Materia Medica of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, have 
an unpieafant fmell, and a hot pungent bitterifh tafte :f on drying, 
or on being long kept, their pungency is confiderably diminifhed. 
Their 
lined 
extracted partially by water, and 
When 
pletely by 
8 
quantities of the root are diflilled with 
water, a fmall portion of euential oil, extremely acrid and fiery 
may be obtained * 
Bergius flates the virtues of thi 
be refol 
ftomachic, and diuretic 
ftomach 
diaph 
It is recommended by feveral writers 
and in all cafes where pituitous humours are though 
prevail, as afthmas, dropfies, catarrhal coughs, hoarfenefTes, and what 
has been called angina ferofa; and by Hoffmann d it is faid to be an 
excellent emmenagogue. In the way of gargle it has been employed 
for diffolving vifcid mucous, and to ftimulate the tongue, when that 
organ becomes paralytic. 
* Murray, dpp. Med. vol. i. p. 295. 
f Hence chewing it is recommended to relieve the tooth-ach 
© 
\ 
Lewis, Mat. Med. p, 502 
M. M. p. 230 
Efpecially German Phyficia 
Med. off. p. 533 
Pimpinella 
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