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middle leaves are cunate in form, and the others 
lanceolate and undivided. The flowers are 
white and arranged in umbels, with 5 stamens 
and 2 pistils. The fruit (Fructus Anise) of the 
Pimpinella Anisum is from } to 4 of an inch (4 
or 5 millimeters) long; ovate, and somewhat 
compressed at the sides, and crowned by two 
short styles; color brown inclining to gray, and 
finely pubescent. The fruit is made up of two 
mericarps, each having a flat surface with ten 
light-brown filliform ridges. The odor of Anise is 
aromaticand spicy ;taste sweet, and of its own kind 
closely resembling hemlock fruit in appearance. 
Anise contains sugar, mucilage, and a fixed and 
volatile oil, and is carminative, stomachic and 
Stimulating in its action; in doses of 8 to 30 
grains. Butlittle used, except as an adjunct to 
other drugs, and to give flavor to confections, an 
a refreshing odor to linen. Anise is an old 
remedy, and is mentioned in the writings of 
Theophrastus, Dioscorides and Pliny. 
Apium, Celery, Apium Graveolens.—Natural 
order Umbellifere. A native of Southern 
Europe and the Levant, and cultivated in many 
parts of the world for its fruit and stems, the 
latter being, when bleached, one of our table 
luxuries, The stem of the celery arises to a 
a height of 20 inches or more, and adorned with 
large leaves, with many divisions, the leaflets 
of which are cunate inform. Flowers slightly 
colored, with 5 petals, 5 stamens inserted upon 
the ovary, incorporated with the calyx; styles 2 
in number. Fruit dry and 2 seeded like the 
rest of the order (exceptions); nearly round in 
shape, and somewhat compressed laterally, about 
