993 ORD. VI.. Umbellate. PHELLANDRIUM AQUATICUM. 
even in cancers;* also in phthisis pulmonalis, pacha, dyspepsia, 
intermittent fevers, &c. 
About two scruples of the seed, two or three times a day, was 
the ordinary dose given. 
Though the disorders here catiged, are so multifarious and. dissi- 
milar as to afford no satisfactory evidence of the medicinal qualities 
of these seeds, yet they appear to us well deserving of further in- 
vestigation, according to the maxim ‘ Ubi virus ibi virtus.’ 
© Boerhaave also speaks highly of its discutient power in all kinds of tumours. 
Hist. Plant. Hort. Ludg. Bat. 1. p. 9 
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OENANTHE CROCATA. HEMLOCK WATER-DROPWORT. 
SYNONYMA. Ocnanthe Cherophylli foliis. Bauwh. Pin. 162. 
! - Filipendula. cicutz facie. Ger. £mac. 1057. Ocenanthe, succo 
‘viroso, cicute facie Lobelii. Bauh. Hist. iii. 193. Park. 
894. Raii. Synop. 210. Morris. Sect. 9. tab. 9. Watson. tia 
Trans. v. 44. n. 480. tab. 3. Oenanthe crocata. Huds. Flor. 
Ang. 121. Withering. Bot. Arr. 297. Lightfoot. Flor. Scot. 
162. Smith. Flor. Brit. 317. Flor. Dan. 846. Eng. Bot. 363. 
Pentandria Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 352. 
Gen. Ch. Filosculi ditformes: in disco sessiles, steriles. Fructus 
calyce et pistillo coronatus. 
-: Ch, . foliis omnibus multifidis obtusis subzqualibus. , 
~ ROOT perennial, divided into numerous parts, or oblong tuber- 
cles, furnished with long slender fibres. Stalks erect, channelled, 
round, smooth, branched,’ of :. Sila red colour, two or three 
