98 ' ORD. VI.. Umbellate. — BUBON GALBANUM, 
As an internal medicine the Cicuta aquatica is universally super- 
seded by the common hemlock; but externally employed in the 
way ofa poultice, it is said to afford relief in various fixed pains, 
especially those of the rheumatic and arthritic kind. 
BUBON GALBANUM. LOVAGE-LEAVED BUBON. 
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SYNONYMA. Bubon Galbanum. Jacquin. Hort. Vindob. vol. 3, 
. p. 21. Anisum Africanum frutescens, folio anisi, galbaniferum. 
Pluken. Alm. p. 31. t. 12. Ferula Africana galbanifera, folio 
et facie ligustici. Herm. Parad. p. 163. t. 163. Gummi-resina. 
Galbanum. Pharm. Lond. § Edin. xaxtim Dioscorid. raxém Gree. 
Class Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. 5 os Gen. Plant. 350. 
pce a Ses 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Fructus ovatus, striatus, +itohie 
Sp. Ch. B. foliolis rhombeis dentatis striatis glabris, umbell. paucis. 
L. B. foliolis ovato-cuneiformibus acutis argute serratis, umbellis 
paucis, seminibus glabris, caule frutescente glauco. Aiton’s Hort. 
Kewen. 
THE stalk is shrubby, several feet high,* slender, purplish, 
covered with a glaucous-coloured exudation,’ round, bending, 
Knotted or jointed, towards the bottom woody and naked, but 
» Jacquin says five feet or more; but this plant is now growing in the King’s 
garden at Kew, four yards high. 
* This observation applies to the younger plants, or to the upper and softer 
part of the stalk. 
