f 
494 
ties feem to have been unjuftly afcribed to the Coriander; and Dr. 
Withering informs us, that he has " known fix drams of the feeds 
taken at once without any remarkable efFeel:." f 
■ 
Thefe feeds, like thofe laft mentioned, and indeed thofe of moil of 
the umbelliferous plants, poffefs a ftomachic and carminative power. 
They are direcled in the infufum amarum, the infufum fennae tartari- 
fatum, and fome other compofitions of the Pharmacopceias ; and accord- 
in 
Dr. Cullen, the principal ufe of thefe f< 
« 
that 
5 
■I 
g with fenna, they more powerfully eorrecT: the odour and tafte 
of this than any other aromatic 
Ih 
employed ; and 
believe, equally powerful in obviating the griping that fenna is very 
dy to produce 
f 
With 
I 
Mat. Mtd. vqL it. p. 158 
SIUM NODIFLORUM. 
CREEPING WATER PARSNEP. 
STNONTMA. Sium. Pharm. Lond. Sium aquaticum procum 
bens, ad alas floridum. Moris, Rift, iii.p. 283./. 9. t. $.f. 3. Petk 
* 
t. 26. f. 3. Sium umbellatum repens. Gerard. Emac.p. 256. Ra> 
ip. p. 211. Hift. 444. Sium foliis radicalibus 
pinnatis 
> 
dentatis; caulinis appendiculatis ; umbellis alaribus. Hall. Stirp 
Helv 
n 
778 
S. nodiflorum. Hudfo 
Fit 
Ang 9 p 
Withering. Bot. Arr .p. 292. Lightfoot. Flor. Scot. p. 161. Relban 
Flor. Cantab, p. 116. 
Clafs Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 348. 
EJf. Gen. Ch. Frublus fubovatus, ftriatus. Involucrum polyphyllum 
Petala cordata 
•*. 
tip, CL 
S. foliis pinnatis, umbellis axillaribus feflilibus. 
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