418 The Ujeful Family Herbal. 
SAGAPENUM PLanrt. 
3 SAGAPENUM. 
Large Plant, Native of Perfia and the Ea/- 
Indies, and defcribed but imperfectly to us; 
however, fo that we have Confirmation, that the 
Defcription is authentic, if not fo finifhed in all 
its Parts as we could wifh. It grows upon the — 
Mountains, and is eight Feet high, the Leaves 
are very large, and are compofed of a great Mul- 
titude of little Parts, which are fixed to a divided 
Rib, and are of a bluifh green Colour, and when 
bruifed, of a ftrong{mell. TheStalkis thick, ftriated, 
_ round, hollow, and upright, purplifh toward the 
Bottom, but green upwards. The Leaves which 
ftand or it are like thofe which rife from the Root, 
only fimaller. The Flowers are little and yellow- 
ifh, they ftand in very large Umbels at the Tops 
of the Stalks; and each of them is fucceeded by 
two Seeds, thefe are flat, large, brown, and ftriat- 
ed. The Root is long, thick, of a yellowifh 
Colour, and of a difagreeable Smell. This is the 
Account we have from thofe who have been of 
Jate in the Ea#: And there is a great dea] to con- 
firm it. We find among Refin which is brought 
over to us, pieces of the Stalk and many Seeds 
of the Plant: Thefe agree with the Defcription. 
I procured fome of the Seeds picked. out of fome 
Sagapenum, by young Mr. Siffoz, to be fowed 
with all proper Care at the Lord Petres, whofe 
principal Gardener was an excellent Perfon at his 
Bufinefs, and with them fome Seeds of the Am-_ 
-moniacum Plant, picked alfo out of a large Quan- - 
tity of that Gum. Thofe of the Ammoniacum 
Plant all perifhed ; from the Sagapenum Seeds, 
though more than an Hundred were fown, we 
had only one Plant, and that perithed by —Z 
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