288 PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Selinum. 



SELFNUM. Involucr. reflected : petals heart- 

 shaped, equal : seeds small, with 5 mem- 

 ♦branaceous ridges, the lateral ones the 

 largest. 



palus'tre. S. Stem solitary : styles wide spreading after flowering: 



petals rolled inwards. 



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ThysseL 



angustifo.-FL dan. ±12-Dad. 699~Ger. em. 1020-Pari. 

 928 and 904. 6-H. ox. ix. 17. 2-Loh. obs. 409. U andlC - 



i. 711. l-C. B.pr. 85. 



Whole plant somewhat milky. Stem mostly single, hard* 

 deeply scored. The terminating little-leaves elongated. Root 

 hot in the mouth. Linn. The whole plant when wounded 

 pouring forth a milky juice. Root thick, branching, yellowish 

 without, white within. Stem 2 or 3 cubits high, deeply fur- 

 rowed, smooth, as in the whole plant. Leaves of a pleasant 

 green, triangular, in the more luxuriant plants upwards of 1$ 

 feet long and as much or more in breadth ; the uppermost sit- 

 ting trebly andquadruply winged, the last leafits wing-cleft; wings 

 with 2 or 3 clefts, varying from strap to oval-spear-shaped, very 

 entire, reddish at the points. Umbel large, beautiful ; spokes 

 about 30. Umbellules, spokes upwards of 40. Involucr. per- 

 manent ; leaves spear-shaped, about 9« InvolucelL about 12. 

 Seeds roundish, blunt, edged, with a kind of border, scored in 

 the centre. Petals blunt, with 2 slight lobes, white ; before 

 flowering reddish on the outside. Woodward. 



virulent than was formerly imagined, and though it may not cure Cancers 

 it is certainly a very useful medicine when properly prepared. In the 

 first and second editions of this work, very particular directions were given 

 for making the extract, but such is the uncertainty of it, owing to the 

 difficulty of preparing it, that 1 have now for some years laid it aside, and 

 prescribed only the powder of the dried leaves. Let the leaves be ga- 

 thered about the end of June, when the plant is in flower. Pick otf the 

 little-leaves and throw away the leaf-stalks. Dry these selected little leaves 

 in a hot sun, or on a tin dripping-pan or pewter dish before a fire. Preserve 

 hemin bags made of strong brown paper, or powder them, and keep the 

 powder in glass vials, in a drawer, or something that "will exclude the light, 

 for the light soon dissipates the beautiful green colour, and with its co- 

 lour, the medicine loses its efficacy. From 15 to 25 grains of this powder 

 may be taken twice or thrice a-day. I have found it particularly usetul 

 in chronic rheumatisms, and also in many of those diseases which are 

 usually supposed to arise from acrimony. The nature of this book ^locs 

 not allow of minute details of the virtues of plants, but I can assure the 

 medical practitioner that this is well worth his attention. — Dr. Butter 

 says, obstinate cases of -'gonorrhoea virulenta may be safely cured by doses 

 of 10 grains of the inspissated juice ; a mode of treatment communicated 

 to him by Baron Storck. — Mr. Whately, surgeon in London, bears ample 

 testimony to the beneficial eite&s of the powder given in doses of only 4 or 

 5 grains twice a-day, for promoting a disposition to heal in obstinate 

 ulcers on the legs; and its tendency to heal ulcerations of the lungs, atter 



the inflammatory symptoms have been abated, must be generally allowed. 



