493 
parfley > the Sowers are white, or reddifh, and placed in terminal 
mbels, appearing in J 
rad 
tha 
the partial umbel 
at ^ 
f± 
eneral, and each is furnifhed 
pofed of m 
an 
m of 
row 
£> 
compofed 
fliape, and uneq 
fit 
the 
are five, ilender, and furnimed with 
but the general involucrum is commonly want 
fimpl 
bent inwards, 
the filaments 
g 
petals are fi 
,nd at the circumference the outermoft are the largeli 
roui 
ndifh j 
antherae : the 
germen is globular, placed below the infertion of the corolla, and 
fupports two fhort ftyles, bent in oppofite diredions, and terminated 
by fimple ftigmata : the fruit is globular, and divifible into two 
hemifpherica] concave fttd 
Th 
pi 
a native of the S 
8 
It 
laid to 
g 
A 4 
of Europe, wh 
growth of wheat and other g 
fuch abundance, as frequently 
in fome 
o chok 
e 
as a medicinal pi 
it 
country 
has for fome time becom 
t is ufually found in cor 
From being cultivated h 
field 
alized to* 
the fides 
to tin 
of roads, and about dung^xo. 
Every part of the plant, when frefh, has a very offenfive odour 
but upon being dried the feeds have a tolerably grateful fmell, ai 
d 
their 
4~ 
th 
r 
ely warm, and .{lightly p 
y to rectified fpirit, b 
They g 
ly partially 
In diftiilation with water, they yield a fmall quantity of a yellowifh 
u 
tial oil, 
)5 C 
efTe 
Coriand 
Diofcorid 
hich fme 
ftrongly and pretty 
ably of the 
pro 
afferts, 
ce dele 
Egypt 
leth 
L1S*t + 
that thefe feeds, when taken in a considerable 
"erioiis effects ; and in fome parts of Spain and 
, where the fredi herb is eaten as a cordial, inftances of fatuity, 
y, &c. are obferved to occur very frequently ; c but thefe . quali- 
Murray,.. App. Med. vol. i. p. 278 
See Englijh Botany^ p. 67 
* 
« Co 
feed and all, 
/ 
Qtolerably 
reen herb, 
M. M. vol. it. p. 349 
\ 
p 
4 u Si largius fumptum fuerit femen, mentem, non fine periculo, e fua fede & ftatu 
demovet." And again, u Coriandram propter odorem latere non poteft : epoturn vocis 
raucitatem facit, atque infaniara, qualis ex vinolentia proficifcitur, ita ut qui fumpfer* 
varia di£tu pudenda blatterant : toto vero corpore coriandri odor fe pro4it« M L* 3« c. Jl + 
Vide C. Hoffmann. Med.- Off. ^.241 
r. 
Ues 
