49° 
Pimpinclla formerly entered the officinal pulvis ari, and like the 
arum it appears to be an acrid ftimulant ; but how far this quality 
renders it fit for the cure of the above-mentioned diforders, we leave 
to the consideration of others. It may be given in doles of a fcruple 
in fubftance, and in infufion to two drams, 
*>•£** . - - 
— «#7>rr2pi 
P I M PI NELL A AN I SUM 
3" 
ANISE. 
STNONTMJ. Anifum. Pbarm. Lond. & Edinb. Gerard 
Emac. p 
herbarii: 
Park. Tbeat.fi. 9 
35- 
Baub. Pin.fi 
n. 
Rail Hift. p. 45 o. Anifum 
59 
Anifum vulg 
Clus. "Biji. ii. p 
202. Anifum vulg 
Hift.O 
» ♦ • 
/V« III ft 
97 
O 
\ 
Clafs Pentandria. Ord. Digyni a 
• 
in. Gen. Plant. 366 
• * 
/ 
EJf. Gen. Cb. Frutlus ovato-oblongus. Petala inflexa. Stigmata 
.* 
Sp. Cb. 
P. foliis radicalibus trifidis incifis. 
■* 
TI-IE root is annual, tapering: the ftem is upright, branched 
ftriated, jointed, fmooth, and rifes about a foot in height: the leave 
i 
the upper part of the ftem are divided 
narrow pinnated (eg-: 
/ 
but at the bottom they are roundiih, feparated in three or fi 
* * 
dented lobes 
d ftand 
U P 
fcored fheath-HJce footft 
th 
termi 
flowers are fmall, white, and placed in umbels, w 
flat, confiding of feveral general and partial radii, without involucra: 
the parts of inflorefcence refemble thofe of the P. Saxifraga; therefore 
need not be repeated here. It is a native of Egypt, and flowers 
in July. 
The Anife was cultivated here in the time of Turner, (1551) but 
our fummers are feldom warm enough to bring the plant to perfection. 
The feeds, according to Miller, are annually imported here from Malta 
and Spain, where the Anife is chiefly cultivated. Savary alfo informs 
us 
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